Rebuilding community resilience in a post-war context: Developing insight and recommendations - A qualitative study in Northern Sri Lanka

International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Somasundaram, Daya ^a,b   Sivayokan, Sambasivamoorthy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Department of Health ^*  (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Collective trauma; Community based interventions; Community resilience; Post conflict; Post war; Psychosocial

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARMY; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; COMMUNITY CARE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABILITY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEGLECT; PHENOMENOLOGY; POVERTY; POWERLESSNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SRI LANKA; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; VIOLENCE; WAR; WIDOW;

EID: 84872138832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17524458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-4458-7-3     Document Type: Article

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