Chandradasa, M.Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.2017-11-012017-11-012017BJPsych International. 2017;14(2):36-37.[eCollection 2017]2056-4740 (Print)2058-6264 (Electronic)http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/17939Index in PUBMED, Not in MEDLINESri Lanka's civil war and the tsunami in 2004 had enormous psychological impacts on the country's children. Tackling these issues has been difficult due to the lack of specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry. The end of the war in 2009 opened new avenues for the development of mental health services for children and youth in Sri Lanka. The year 2016 was historic in that the first board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists assumed services in the country, after training in Australia.en-USMental Health ServicesChildAdolescentArmed ConflictsSri LankaArticle