Children : Learnig, School going, Behavioral
The child and adolescent psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and the treatment of disorders of thinking, feeling and/or behavior affecting children, adolescents, and their families. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers families the advantages of a medical education, the medical traditions of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care.
Conditions Treated
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar disorders
- Coping with medical illness
- Depression
- Developmental and other learning disorders
- Disruptive behavior disorders
- Eating disorders
- Fragile X Syndrome (FXS)
- Impulse control disorders
- Mood and thought disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
- Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD)
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- School refusal
