This paper will consider some of the dilemmas and challenges facing psychologists working overseas in a civil conflict situation. It will draw on the author's experience of working with a range of projects over a number of years in Sri Lanka. It will also briefly describe the psychological ...
This book has been published in Australia byIbis Publishingunder the title“Winning the Weight War”. This book has also been published in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan byCorpus Collosum Learning PVT Ltdunder the title“Watch Your Weight”....
In predominantly collectivistic cultures such as Sri Lanka, poor interpersonal func- tioning is likely to cause more suffering to the individual with clinical symptoms than the symptoms themselves. Hence a clinical psychologist's careful assessment of the cur- rent psychological and interpersonal func-...
Importance of socio-political, cultural and existential meanings; Multi-factorial nature of any traumatic experience; Models of psychological response within a civil conflict situation; Sri Lanka context.TribeRacherCounselling Psychology QuarterlyTRIBE, R. (1998). W hat can psychological theory and the ...