Behavioural and Emotional Disorder Suffered by children in Orphanages from the viewpoint of their own Superintendents

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 theirown 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.