Who Should Consider Training in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry?
Child psychiatry training is valuable not only for physicians who have decided upon a career working with children, but also for psychiatrists who demand a fuller appreciation of behavior and psychopathology from longitudinal and developmental perspectives. Many important psychiatric disorders, included behavior disorders and pervasive developmental disorders, mental retardation, learning disabilities, and Tourette’s syndrome, to mention only a few, begin, by definition, in youth. Other disorders commonly viewed as the domain of adult psychiatry, including schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder, typically crystallize in adolescence or early adulthood, with early signs sometimes evident in infancy. Psychosocial adversity in early life reverberates through the lifespan, and most theories of personality development and disorder emphasize early developmental influences and predispositions. For these reasons, child psychiatrists offer unique perspectives on psychopathology across the l
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- Why are Child Psychiatrist required to complete two additional years of training after their training in General Psychiatry?
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- Who Should Consider Training in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry?
