Occupation or Discipline
child psychiatry
child psy·chi·a·try
Subclass of:
Psychiatry Specialty
Definitions related to child psychiatry:
  • A subdiscipline of psychology centered on the special mental health needs of non-adults.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in children.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Child psychiatry, branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders of childhood. Child psychiatry has been recognized as a division of the field of psychiatry and neurology since the mid 1920s. By about the mid-1950s, the American Board of...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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