ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AMONG SIBLINGS OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY ATTENDING NEUROLOGY CLINIC AT ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Elham Elsayed Elsakka, Shimaa Anwar Mohamed, Mohamed Abdelhady Ali Abdelhady Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

: CP is a group of permanent disorders motor function, which are due to non-progressive lesion, or abnormality the developing/immature brain. Motor function often accompanied by other dysfunctions, such as: sensation, perceptual, cognitive, communication and behavioral disorders, epilepsy, secondary musculoskeletal disorders. (1) It most common cause disability in childhood. (2)The worldwide prevalence ranges from 1 4 per 1,000 live births. In Egypt, about 2.6-4.6 births.Having child with family not only affects parents’ lives including physical psychological well-being, financial stability support services , but also normal siblings, who considered as “population at risk experience difficulties” .(5, 6) According American Psychiatric Association, anxiety depression pediatric psychiatric disorders.(7)Anxiety among childhood emotional problems, lifetime ranging 8.3% 27%.(8)Depression: mental state chronic disorder characterized feelings sadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem, signs psychomotor retardation ,or less frequently, agitation, withdrawal social contact ,change appetite insomnia.(10)The overall depressive 12.3% 14.1% for females 8.6% males.(11)