Resilience and coping among children affected by Kerala Flood in Ernakulam District

Kerala was affected with severe flood in 2018 and 2019. Thousands of people were evacuated to safer places and relief camps. 121 people died due to f lood-related incidents since 14 august 2019, these erelief camps host more than 2 lakh persons from various parts of the state. In august 2018, over 450 people died and properties worth rs.40000 crore were damaged.

according to world disaster report 2001, about 66.5 million children are affected by natural disaster every year which is considerably more than the number in previous decade before where 10 million children were affected by conflict. adolescents are vulnerable to disaster trauma and this cause a variety complex psychological and behavioural manifestation.

The main aim of the study is to understand resilience and coping of children who are affected by the flood. It is a quantitative and descriptive study by taking 60 samples (30 girls and 30 boys). T he study has used standardized questionnaire with two scales such as  reaD scale - the resilience Scale for adolescent (rSa) (friborget,al. 2003) and the Brief cope (carver, 1997). The major finding of the study shows significant relation between resilience and coping, coping across respondents with varied locality and different coping strategy used by the respondents. The results of the study can be further evaluated by administering an intervention package among children affected by flood through different methods of social work.