What Is Child Psychiatry?
Child psychiatry is a specialty of psychiatric medicine, and is more often called child and adolescent psychiatry. Its focus is on treating, from multiple perspectives, both children and teens suffering from mental illnesses, learning disorders or impairment, or other conditions. Though this area of medicine is now a widely accepted discipline and subspecialty of psychiatry, it wasn’t until the second half of the 20th century that the idea of creating separate specialization designation gained strength. Today a person who is a child psychiatrist often has more training that a doctor who is a licensed as a psychiatrist without specialty.
