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 rationale of the work undertaken and consider its positioning in this context.Rachel Tribe...
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 ...
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-...