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Concept
Psychiatrist
Summary
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly mental issues. Sometimes a psychiatrist works within a multi-disciplinary team, which may comprise clinical psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and nursing staff. Psychiatrists have broad training in a biopsychosocial approach to the assessment and management of mental illness.
As part of the clinical assessment process, psychiatrists may employ a mental status examination; a physical examination; brain imaging such as a computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or positron emission tomography scan; and blood testing. Psychiatrists use pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic, and/or interventional approaches to treat mental disorders.
The field of psychiatry has many subspecialties that require additional (fellowship) training, which, in the USA, are certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) and require Maintenance of Certification Program to continue. These include the following:
Clinical neurophysiology
Forensic psychiatry
Addiction psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Geriatric psychiatry
Palliative care
Pain management
Consultation-liaison psychiatry
Sleep medicine
Brain injury medicine
Further, other specialties that exist include:
Cross-cultural psychiatry
Emergency psychiatry
Learning disability
Neurodevelopmental disorder
Cognition diseases, as in various forms of dementia
Biological psychiatry
Community psychiatry
Global mental health
Military psychiatry
Social psychiatry
Sports psychiatry
The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in the United States offers certification and fellowship program accreditation in the subspecialties of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, which is open to both neurologists and psychiatrists.
Some psychiatrists specialize in helping certain age groups.
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