This study aims to know how far and severe the children's
behavioural and emotional disorders in Orphanages have gone according
to changes resulting from gender, age, year of residence, death of a parent
or both of them from the viewpoint of their
own superintendents.
The sample includes 270 children, 178 males and 92 females from
Damascus, Homs and Aleppo. The tool used in this study is a scale of 54
phrases divided into six items all dealing with children's behavioural and
emotional disorder.