Psychological Rehabilitation of Children Traumatized by Wars and Conflicts

Abstract

Wars usually cause destruction to man from various economic, social, and psychological aspects. Man is very much affected by wars, He feels helpless and unable to work. Man becomes preoccupied with subjective thinking and thus submissive to scrupulosity. He has an obsession with his future life. The current research aims at identifying psychological trauma, and how to readjust children who have been exposed to trauma during wars and conflicts. The researcher used a sample of displaced pupils who are removed to the center of Kirkuk governorate for the academic year (2016 - 2017) in Lailan camp and other areas. The researcher uses the PTSD theory according to DSM - IV to translate and standardize d. Abdul Aziz Thabet, consisting of (17) paragraph. The researcher examines the validity of the tool by introducing the test to a group of specialists in educational and psychological fields. On the light of their opinions and observations the tool is approved were approved. The researcher follows the method of repeating the test so as to find stability coefficient after obtaining two degrees for each form using the Pearson correlation coefficient. It comes up with a conclusion that the stability coefficients are 0.85, which on the one hand are high and indicate that they are safe when they used in the test (Bayati, 1977: 351)The researcher concludes that the major members of the sample suffer from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they continue to suffer from violence, displacement, loss of love and living in the camps. In light of the results, the researcher recommends and suggests the following: developing and equipping psychiatric centers in all governorates of Iraq, especially in the affected areas, they should be carried out after the return of the displaced to their cities to consider rehabilitated children.