Health Promotion Bureau of Sri Lanka together with Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists Association of Sri Lanka has launched a series of counseling sessions online for children and adolescents who are presently confined to houses due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
According to the Health Promotion Bureau of Sri Lanka, this move was taken considering the psychological complications that children and adolescents may go through during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Bureau said children and adolescent having to stay inside houses for a long period of time without outdoor activities and usual friends and peers may develop such mental complications and issues.
The said counseling sessions in video format will be streamed via the Facebook page of Sri Lanka College of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists from this week onward.
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