Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

The Orphanage is obliged to meet the physical, mental, social and psychological needs of its foster children. The fact is that psychological needs have not been conditioned. The aim of the study was to analyze the psychological needs of adolescents at the Orphanage. The subject of this descriptive study were 260 adolescents in the Orphanage in the Surabaya and Sidoarjo, selected by cluster sampling. The researched variables consist of the needs of achievement, the need for affiliation, the need for autonomy, the need to improve the situation, the need for self-defense, the need for respect, the need for order and the need for understanding. The results of research on the needs of achievement, affiliation, autonomy, self-defense, respect and understanding are mostly sufficient. The need to improve the situation and order mostly well.