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  Psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psychiatry is a medical speciality dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral disorders and whose primary goal is the relief of mental suffering and improvement of mental well-being.
Psychiatry is one of the medical disciplines that involve the diagnosis and medication of mental and behavioral disorders such as clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders.
Psychiatry residents are required to complete at least four post-graduate months of internal medicine or pediatrics and two months of neurology during the first year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatry   (2798 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Psychiatry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioral conditions.
Psychiatry has proven to be a malleable term, which today refers to the branches of medicine which associate with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, such as major depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders.
Psychiatry was at first a pragmatic discipline that was part of general medicine, combining medicine and practical psychology.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Psychiatry   (2906 words)

  
 Child Psychiatry
The child and adolescent psychiatrist is a licensed physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of thinking, feeling or behavior affecting children, adolescents and their families.
Child and adolescent psychiatric training requires 4 years of medical school, 1 year of supervised hospital medical training (internship), at least 2 years of approved residency training in general psychiatry with adults, and 2 years of training in psychiatric work with children, adolescents and their families in an approved residency in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Having completed the child psychiatry residency and successfully passed the examination in general psychiatry given by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the child and adolescent psychiatrist is eligible for certification in the subspecialty of child and adolescent psychiatry.
www.wccap.org /child_psychiatrist.htm   (509 words)

  
 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
WPIC trainees who enter this program in general psychiatry and later decide to pursue subspecialty training here in child/adolescent psychiatry are able to do so without difficulty as long as they decide by the beginning of their third year of adult training.
This first year of full-time child and adolescent psychiatry training is designed to provide a broad clinical and didactic exposure to the field, building on adult training and past experiences in child and adolescent psychiatry.
This second and final year of full-time child and adolescent training is designed to build on the skills and knowledge base gained in the first training year, with the opportunity for the resident to electively focus on particular areas of interest.
www.wpic.pitt.edu /education/residency_training/CHILD_PGYs.htm   (2115 words)

  
 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
The University of Maryland Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
The University of Maryland Medical Center's Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry is dedicated to the emotional, mental and behavioral well-being of children and teens throughout the Maryland and Washington, D.C. region.
A child’s teachers may be asked to complete a questionnaire as well.
www.umm.edu /child_psych/index.html   (278 words)

  
 Child Psychiatry Residency Program at Wright State University School of Medicine
Today's child and adolescent psychiatrist faces special challenges brought on by an explosion of knowledge about mental illness in children and a shortage of resources.
The two-year residency in child and adolescent psychiatry normally begins after three or four years of residency in general psychiatry.
Child and adolescent psychiatry residents participate in much of the didactic curriculum of the general residency.
www.med.wright.edu /psych/res/child.html   (614 words)

  
 Practice Parameters for the Psychiatric Assessment of Infants and Toddlers (0-36 Months)
The child's response to previous stressors also should be assessed, including neglect, physical or sexual abuse (Lieberman and Zeanah, 1995; Scheeringa and Zeanah, 1995; Thomas, 1995), medical illnesses or hospitalizations (Mayes, 1995), significant parental absence, birth of a sibling, move to a different house, or other stresses affecting the parents or family.
Clinically relevant dimensions of the child's behavior include the amount and extent of physical contact and eye contact; the manner and extent to which the child engages or initiates play with the parent and observer; the quality and quantity of verbal exchange; and the child's capacity for affective involvement with the parent.
Child session(s): it often is helpful to interact, play, and talk with the child alone, especially in the case of toddlers aged 18 months and older.
www.child-neuro.org.uk /arttman/publish/printer_43.shtml   (9520 words)

  
 MCG Child Psychiatry Residency Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This two year Residency is designed to provide qualified applicants comprehensive skills in the diagnosis and treatment of the full scope of child, adolescent and family psychopathology, utilizing the understanding of the principles of normal development throughout the life cycle.
The child psychiatry resident will be trained to function as a leader of and collaborator with multidisciplinary teams in a variety of settings (child psychiatric inpatient, pediatric ward, schools, courts, mental health centers, etc.).
The child psychiatry residency is affiliated with the general psychiatry residency in an integrated fashion.
www.mcg.edu /som/Psychiatry/childpsy.htm   (221 words)

  
 GWU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
GWU psychiatry faculty have collaborated regularly with the George Washington University Institute on Spirituality and Health (GWISH) in educational programs that assist physicians seeking to respond to spiritual needs of patients in their provision of health care.
The GWU psychiatry residency was a 2002 recipient of the John Templeton Spirituality and Medicine Award for psychiatry residencies.
Outpatient and consultation-liaison psychiatry training are closely integrated, with residents applying outpatient brief psychotherapy and psychopharmacology skills at the bedside with medically-ill patients, and engaging medically-ill patients in the range of outpatient therapies after hospital discharge.
www.gwupsychiatry.org /education-training.html   (4041 words)

  
 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Psychiatry - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services at Ben Taub General Hospital, the main Public/ County general hospital, include consultation to pediatric inpatients and emergency room visitors in addition to a general pediatric psychiatry ambulatory clinic and an ambulatory pediatric injury clinic.
The division assists in the coordination of the core child and adolescent psychiatry rotation for general psychiatry residents.
However, the total length of training can be shortened by beginning the child and adolescent psychiatry residency in the fourth postgraduate year.
www.bcm.edu /psychiatry/index.cfm?PMID=1859   (652 words)

  
 Psychiatry Education & Training - Residents, Child Psychiatry Residency Training
The didactic material facilitates the child psychiatry resident gaining mastery over biological approaches to therapy as well as careful grounding in the fundamentals of several approaches to child and family psychotherapy.
Psychiatry residents accepted into the program, participate in an intensive didactic research program and develop a funding proposal.
There is a funded Child, Family, and Youth Consortium, which consists of approximately seventy child mental health researchers from the various campuses of Penn State University who meet on a regular basis to discuss research proposals and the present, their work.
www.hmc.psu.edu /psychiatryeducation/residents/child/index.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Partial Hospitalization Program is a child day treatment program offered for children between the ages of 5 and 12 at the downtown UMMS site and a separate program for ages 6-16 at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.
Child psychology and psychiatry, nursing, social work, and occupational therapy participate on the treatment team, which provides multidisciplinary evaluations including psychological and educational testing; individual, group, and family therapy; psychopharmacology; behavior management; discharge planning; and consultation as needed for a wide range of services associated with an academic medical setting.
The unit is staffed by child psychiatry, social work, education, psychiatric nurses and child care workers.
medschool.umaryland.edu /Psychiatry/childpsych/clinicalprograms.asp   (936 words)

  
 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Residency
UCSD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services is a twenty-eight bed inpatient service that was transferred under contract to UCSD from the County of San Diego.
The Outpatient Psychiatry Division of Children’s Hospital is located one mile from the main campus of Children’s Hospital and operates several clinics in North San Diego County.
The faculty consists of two full-time child psychiatrists, one full-time psychologist, one half-time psychologist, one full-time psychologist, and four full-time psychiatric social workers and four marriage and family therapists.
psychiatry.ucsd.edu /childresidency/clinicalOpportunities.html   (917 words)

  
 Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
These rounds are attended by the pediatric house staff, medical students, nursing students, nursing and child life staff, pediatric psychology interns, child psychiatry residents, and behavioral pediatric fellows assigned to the Liaison Service.
In this setting, which is one of the community consultation experiences for second year residents, the child psychiatry residents provide diagnostic and evaluation services for the court.
The curriculum for child psychiatry residents has been designed to provide them with the knowledge and skills necessary to function effectively in a variety of roles and settings.
www.medschool.umaryland.edu /psychiatry/childpsych/trainingfacilities.asp   (2026 words)

  
 Emory / Psychiatry
The child and adolescent psychiatry residency at Emory University School of Medicine is a two year program which has been designed to offer training composed of a well balanced mix of clinical experiences, formal didactics, and theoretical orientations.
In the first year, the residents rotate on several intensive level programs (child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, and medical/psychiatric), work on a pediatric consultation-liaison service, and participate in adolescent substance abuse evaluation and treatment.
During this residency, child and adolescent residents are expected to complete responsibly all clinical assignments in an acceptable and ethical manner.
www.psychiatry.emory.edu /fellowshipschildandadolescentpsychiatry.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Wash. Univ. Department of Psychiatry
All fellows are required to gain competence in clinical child psychiatry and to address mental disorders from infancy through adolescence in terms of the individual, their family and their social setting.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry SLCH Outpatient Clinics: The overall objective of this ongoing outpatient experience is to help the fellow to gain competence in managing children and adolescents with developmental and psychiatric symptomatology in an outpatient setting.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry SLCH Outpatient Clinic: The outpatient clinic experience of the second year fellow emphasizes the management of ongoing treatment cases.
www.psychiatry.wustl.edu /c/education/child   (3531 words)

  
 Cambridge Health Alliance : Academics : Child Psychiatry Residency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Frazier is the director of Child Psychopharmacology for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In addition, she is a Co-Director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Development (CCAD), a multidisciplinary clinic for children with developmental, behavioral and learning challenges.
Child development within family systems and family-based cognitive-behavioral/dynamic/systems treatment techniques; violence exposure and impact of domestic violence on children and adolescents; epilepsy's effect on cognitive and psychological function of the patient and associated impact on family function.
www.challiance.org /child_psychiatry_res/faculty.shtml   (1889 words)

  
 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program - Psychiatry Residency Program - UMass Medical School
The Residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is fully accredited by the ACGME and accepts two residents in each year.  The residency is located in a culturally diverse geographic area that is underserved by child psychiatry, facilitating exposure to a broad range of clinical experiences.
The Residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is strongly supported by the Department of Psychiatry and UMass Memorial Health Care, its clinical partner.
This is accomplished by the use of one-way mirrors and direct observation.  The ratio of child psychiatry department supervisors to fellows is approximately 5:1.  The Division's (and Department's) overall theoretical orientation is deliberately eclectic, using a culturally competent biopsychosocial model.
www.umassmed.edu /psychiatry/residency/child   (386 words)

  
 Psychiatry Education & Training - Residents, About Child Psychiatry Residency Training
Additional elective time is available with the approval of the director of child psychiatry residency training.
Faculty is actively engaged in basic and clinical science research projects, providing opportunities for cutting-edge investigations in the areas of psychopharmacology, psychiatric disorders that span the life cycle from childhood to the geriatric period, behavior disorders, sleep disorders, biological psychiatry, and community mental health.
In addition to psychiatry, residency training is offered in pediatrics, surgery, anesthesia, pathology, neurology, medicine, family medicine, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, urology, orthopaedics, and otolaryngology.
www.hmc.psu.edu /psychiatryeducation/residents/child/aboutus.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Department of Psychiatry - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program - Clinical Rotations
It is the faculty’s strong belief that child psychiatrists will remain rare but avidly sought-after specialists for the foreseeable future.
With this in mind, the Rochester faculty have developed a program aimed at training expert child psychiatry consultants who are first theoretically and experientially well-grounded in basic techniques of diagnosis, treatment, interdisciplinary planning and primary patient care, and are then actively involved as consultants and/or primary caregivers at community agencies.
The latter experience enlarges the patient population to which trainees are exposed, involves them in different models of care delivery systems, and encourages them to deal with the impact of public policy initiatives in their locale.
www.urmc.rochester.edu /smd/psych/educ_train/fellowship/child_adolescent/index.cfm   (464 words)

  
 Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry - Committees - Child Psychiatry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Committee on Child Psychiatry discusses issues pertaining to the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Previous committee publications include a proposed classification of psychopathology in children, a monograph of the process of child therapy, a manuscript on the ages of rights and responsibilities of children and adolescents, and “In the Long Run.
The committee is discussing the issues of universal access to mental health in children and adolescents, with a view to perhaps producing a controversial article on the subject.
www.groupadpsych.org /child_psychiatry.html   (112 words)

  
 Residency Program Combines Child, General Psychiatry -- Moran 41 (5): 9 -- Psychiatric News
Leaders in child psychiatry and education agree that a steep
child training but change their mind for one reason or another.
child and general training along with training in clinical research.
pn.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/short/41/5/9?rss=1   (1361 words)

  
 Tufts University Child Psychiatry Training
Psychiatry Grand Rounds are open to the entire department and take place on Mondays from 12-1pm.
Lectures on a variety of topics, such as adoption, foster care, physical abuse and neglect, sexual abuse and incest, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, multi-problem families and high-risk children and adolescents, children and divorce, neuropsychiatric symptoms and syndromes, violence in children, and acquired brain disorders.
The major task of this assignment is for the resident to gain proficiency in diagnosing and treating a variety of children and adolescents with a wide range of psychiatric disorders.
www.nemc.org /psych/childpsy.htm   (2040 words)

  
 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship - Department of Psychiatry
John Campo, MD, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist, has been recruited to direct a new program which will combine, coordinate and expand the clinical, research and educational programs at Columbus Children's Hospital and OSU Medical Center.
The newly created position is a first for the two institutions and will create a comprehensive program that can better serve patients throughout the state by applying evidence-based medicine, primarily in the community setting, and providing expert clinicians and researchers who are dedicated to the identification and implementation of best practices.
At OSU, Campo will hold the title of professor and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, with responsibilities for Ohio State's child and adolescent psychiatry faculty, staff, residents and fellows.
medicine.osu.edu /psychiatry/1285.cfm   (207 words)

  
 psychiatry
Residency training in psychiatry at SUNY-DOWNSTATE/KCHC is comprised of four distinct programs: The basic Residency Training Program in Psychiatry, the Combined Residency Training Program in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, the Residency Training in Psychiatry: Research Track, and the Combined Residency Training Program in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry.
The program is designed to train physicians who will become proficient in both clinical medicine and psychiatry, and who will be able to understand and treat clinical problems occurring at the interface of these two disciplines.
Residents who successfully complete this program are able to function independently as child and adolescent psychiatrists, and as consultants to pediatricians, schools, the court system, community agencies and interdisciplinary teams, and they become eligible to sit for the certification examinations in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry.
www.downstate.edu /psychiatry/resintro.html   (882 words)

  
 Child Psychiatry's ADHD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
For child psychiatry in the UK, if not elsewhere, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was not part of our business plan, so our own attention has been deficient.
Here too is a simple explanation for why academic child psychiatry is problematic for clinicians who want to work more positively with other agencies in the community as we all claim to do.
The result is that child psychiatry is a business that is so successful in attracting customers that we face going bust.
freespace.virgin.net /nick.child/c&apsychiatry'sadhd.htm   (5112 words)

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