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Background: A natural disaster is a natural event that can cause environmental damage, human casualties, property losses, and psychological impacts. This psychological impact is important for us to discuss, especially for children. Children need the ability to rise from the difficulties that they experience a post natural disaster. Purpose: This review paper to analyze the level of resilience in children affected by natural disaster. Methods: This article searches used to study the literature approach from several ProQuest, PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar databases using keywords Resilience OR resiliency OR resilient AND youth OR Adolescent OR Child AND natural disasters. Based on the screening process of 3,369,259 journals, ten articles were obtained with the selection of inclusion criteria. Results: Find 3 themes, namely the important to confirm the resilience and early recognition about mental disorder post disaster, factors that influence the resilience of children after natural disasters (including mental, spiritual, physical, ecological, environmental, psychological, emotional factors and external factors involving social, both family support and safe community), and provision of Youth Leadership Program (YLP) and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF CBT) interventions to increase resilience. Conclusion: Factors of social support that are good from family, community, and school are the important elements in the formation of resilience in children post natural disaster.