The humanitarian responses to disasters began to emerge in the late 1980s in Sri Lanka during the then Social-Political Violence. This response initially based on the psychological intervention models, and branched out in the area of non-governmental humanitarian work. Around mid 1990s the phenomena of “psychosocial” came into being, and were adopted together with psychological intervention models, or as a separate discipline in humanitarian work.

Often the disaster survivors explained their problems as lasting consequences of the disasters they had experienced. They oriented themselves in a manner unique to them. Their problems were interconnected with complex Social-Cultural Backgrounds, personal belief systems and personal instinctive process. Therefore, the recovery assistance should be provided in an environment where such disasters survivors can meet their complex social-cultural needs and such assistance also should deal with the personal characters of their needs in the long term.

We in CPC idealize that the recovery from disaster caused burden is a process that depends on a large number of factors. Among these factors “person’s functioning” and “influence of social cultural-system” are two factors that interdependently play a crucial role in recovery process. CPC emphasizes this process on its developmental psychosocial approach.

Please read our Brochures for further Information about our Past Work

• Training Program on Trauma Counseling  – 2005/2008
• Counseling Program for Survivors of Disasters – 2005/2009
• Village Based Community Development Program – 2008/2009