III: Mental health initiatives as peace initiatives in Sri Lankan schoolchildren affected by armed conflict
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Medicine, Conflict and Survival
- Vol. 15 (4), 379-390
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699908409479
Abstract
The Health Reach Sri Lanka project (1993–96) is described. It was a school‐based assessment of children's exposure to war‐related events and the presence of psychological distress, undertaken in six communities in parts of Sri Lanka variously affected by armed conflict. Its objectives, methods and results are presented. The research project aimed to raise national awareness of the psychosocial effects of armed conflict on children, using a community‐development approach to local capacity building, based on the ‘health initiative as peace initiative’ model. As a follow‐up to the study, a locally run programme, based on creative play and trauma‐healing, was established, initially for the children involved in the study. This was later extended to other children in the district affected by armed conflict.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Use of Health Initiatives as Peace InitiativesPeace & Change, 1997
- Issues in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress in Children and AdolescentsPublished by Springer Science and Business Media LLC ,1993
- THE VALIDITY OF DEPRESSIVE DISORDER IN CHILDHOOD AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SELF‐RATING SCALE: A RESEARCH REPORTJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1981