Achieving Clinical Excellence in Psychiatry
Sithuvili samaga rahasak
This book is a therapeutic story about a child with ADHD. It is illustrated colorfully, and in simple language aimed at school age children. It not only helps children understand in simple terms the complex issue that is OCD,
Adolescent parent handbook
This book (in Sinhala) is an important resource for parents to understand adolescent behaviour and to help them respond better to adolescents. This book utilised both a biological and attachment perspective to help parents with simple strategies to negotiate this difficult period.
ADHD parent hand book
SULABA MANASIKA ABADA
“Common Mental Disorders”
About Author – Dr.W.A.L.Wickramasinghe MB.BS, MD Psych, FSLCPsych.
Former Senior Consultant Psychiatrist,
Nation Hospital, Kandy. From 1994 to 2017.
Having a vast clinical experience over 35 years.
About Book – There is a severe scarcity of books on mental disorders, specially in Sinhala language. This book will hopefully fulfil that requirement to a great extent. This book can be used as a hand book/text book for many categories of Health Care Workers. This knowledge would help to reduce stigma for mental disorders among HCWs and general public. Its’ cover page has a special meaning, which is described in the introduction. After reading this book, those who wish to study more on a particular mental disorder, can refer a detailed resource.
This book has 12 chapters and 211 pages. It describes about 80 com
mon mental disorders in simple Sinhala language. There are 3 different chapters on child neuro-psychology, forensic psychiatry and information for mental patients and their carers.
For Whom This Book is-
1.Docters/Medical Students
2.Nurses/Nursing Students
3.Family Health Workers/Their Students
4.Counsellors/Their Students
5.Those who are in the law field
6.School/Pre-School teachers
7.School children especially G.C.E.A/L
8.Mental Health Service Users
9.Carers of Mental Patients
ISBN NO. – 978 – 955 – 31 – 2498 – 2
Book is available for sale in Sarasavi book shops islandwide.
You and Your Mental Health
When it comes to mental health there are more myths than facts, out there in the society: neighbours can cause mental illness via charms or shamanic rituals; mental illness is incurable; heavy drinking is only a bad habit and not a treatable disorder; the woman who is not a virgin is a wasted person. These myths not only propagate ignorance about mental health and prevent seeking treatment but also cause mental illness and contribute to unnecessary suffering. To dispel myths those cultural beliefs must be examined and repudiated, thereby promoting mental health.
This book ‘You and Your Mental Health’ discusses key concerns and myths related to mental health prevalent in the current society in the first section: human brain and mind, sleep, sexuality and sexual health, couple relationship, stress, parenting, can change in ways of thinking make us healthier? and healthy ageing.
In the second section it delves into common mental illnesses: The language used is without technical jargon and is easy to understand. Using case histories has made it easier to understand each illness better. This book will answer many of the questions people have about their mental health.
ඔබ සහ ඔබගේ මානසික සෞඛ්යය
මානසික සෞඛ්යය පිළිබඳ සමාජයේ පවතින මිත්යා මත ඒ පිළිබඳ ඇති නිවැරදි දැනුමට වඩා ප්රචලිතය. ‘මානසික රෝග සුව කළ නොහැකියි’, ‘අධික මත් පැන් පානය කෙනෙකුගේ හැදියාවේ ප්රශ්නයකි’, ‘කාන්තාවකගේ ‘කන්යා භාවය’ නොමැති නම් ඇයගේ චරිතය නරකය’ වැනි දේ මිත්යා විශ්වාසවලට උදාහරණ වේ. ශ්රී ලංකාව වැනි සංස්කෘතියක් ඇති රටක මේ සම්බන්ධව දැනුවත් කිරීම තව දුරටත් අපහසු වන්නේ මානසික රෝග/ ප්රශ්නවලට හේතුව ලෙස ‘ග්රහ ලෝකවල බලපෑම් , හදි හූනියම් හා ආගමික හේතූන් වැනි දේ යැයි බොහෝ පුද්ගලයින් විසින් විශ්වාස කිරීමයි.
‘ඔබ සහ ඔබගේ මානසික සෞඛ්යය’ යන මෙම ග්රන්ථය කොටස් දෙකකට පෙළ ගස්වා ඇත. එහි පළමු කොටසෙන් විස්තර කර ඇත්තේ මානසික සෞඛ්යය සම්බන්ධව ඉතා වැදගත් වන, එදිනෙදා ජීවිතයේ විවිධ පැතිය; මිනිසාගේ මොලය සහ මනස, නින්ද, ලිංගිකත්වය හා ලිංගික සෞඛ්යය, දෙදෙනෙකු අතර සම්බන්ධතාව, ආතතිය, දරුවන් ලොකු මහත් කිරීම, සිතන අයුරු අප රෝගී කරවන්නේ කෙසේද?, වයස් ගතවීම.
දෙවන කොටසෙහි විස්තර කර ඇත්තේ අද සමාජයේ නිතර දක්නට ලැබෙන මානසික රෝග පිළිබඳ හැඳින්වීමක් සහ රෝගීන් තම රෝගය පිළිබඳ දැනගත යුතු වැදගත් කරුණු පිළිබඳ ව ය. රෝගීන්ගේ සායන ඉතිහාසයන් (histories) උදාහරණ සේ යොදා ගෙන, ඒ ඒ රෝගය පහසුවෙන් තේරුම් ගැනීමට හැකිවන සේ මෙම ග්රන්ථය සරල බසින් ලියා, පෙළ ගස්වා ඇත. බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට මානසික සෞඛ්යය පිළිබඳ ඇති බොහෝ ගැටලූවලට විසඳුම් මෙම ග්රන්ථයෙහි අඩංගු වේ.
Book about child abuse
This book was meant to fill the void in Sri Lankan context regarding assessment of child abuse ,treatment and ethical management of the affected traumatized children.
This book is a brainchild of consultant psychiatrists and consultant forensic pathologists which is a joint venture for the most needed and most affected children in Sri Lanka.
Book has a comprehensive assessment of childhood abuse addressing various aspects including,how the abuse was undertaken ,in which form it was instigated and how to assist the child without further traumatising. It looks into the psychology of the paedophile as well as long-term consequences of the abuse in a child.
The importance of this book was identified by the child protection authority of Sri Lanka thus the second edition was published by the child protection authority and is available free of charge for the interested individuals, clinicians ,trainees in psychiatry and forensic pathology from the child protection authority.
Two consultant psychiatrist from the College of psychiatrists Co-authored this book
Namely Dr SWARNA Wijethunga and Dr. H. A. Buddhi Jayasekar