Abstract:
The present study aimed at identifying the dynamics of executive functions
in depressed child. The study sample consisted of (30) students in the ffth grade primary school who ranged in age from (10- 11) years. They were divided
equally into two groups depressed and normal. The clinical study consisted
of )5( females suffering from depression. The study used child depression
inventory translated by ElTaib )2015(, Cognitive Assessment System )CAS(
translated by Shosha )2006(, Bender visual motor Gestalt test translated by
Khatab & Marwa Fathi )2016( and the Rorschach Test. The study has found
no signifcant differences between depressed and non-depressed students in
planning, attention, simultaneity, succession. The study has found that the
dynamics of executive functions in depressed child can be detected through
Bender and the Rorschach Test and the executive functions contains cognitive,
emotional, and behavioral responses. The results of the two tests confrmed
that the functions of organizing, planning, attention, simultaneity, succession
were normal among depressed children, but the defcit was in the functions of
fexibility and emotional control.