A Study of Historical Development of Psychological Treatment and Counselling Service in Srilanka

This research examined based on the changes and challenges faced by mental health services in Sri Lanka from ancient times to modern times. The study has detailed and explained how mental health development and service connected with spirituality, Ayurveda, psychiatry and psychology, and how it separated and developed into separate fields over time. Not only this, the traditional methods of psychotherapy, its importance, its contribution, the influence of modern medicine, the challenges of psychotherapy and its contemporary trends are also explored.In contemporary period government and Non-government has focused its attention on creating a mental health system. In this process, attention also focused on building mental health and creating an efficient mental health system, and strengthening all the basic elements of mental health services, quality and accountability, focusing on mental health promotion and prevention, as well as continuing to develop a qualified workforce and developing child and adolescent mental health and specialized expertise and services.