Coping of Traumatized Children: COPE Inventory Validation

Due to current war and conflict many children lost their fathers and they found it difficult to cope effectively with the problems they face and life situations. Lack of adequate parental care and effective coping following the loss accounted for the increase in mental health disorder and there was some evidence that it acted as a 'vulnerability factor' increasing risk of depression during a 1 -year follow up period, in the presence of severe life event or major difficulty. Traumatized children experience hard and distinct situation, which reflect poor psychological problems; such as anxiety, and irritability, behavioral problems; avoidance, social withdrawal, emotional problems; depression, irritability, and shock, in addition to many other symptoms which has bad effect on the children development. The coping strategies for these children are mainly based on how these children cope to traumatic events and what are the events encountered, they will develop many different types ofcoping for such events and they will adopt many approaches to cope depending on the traumatic events itself, so different coping strategies will be used.