Child and adolescent psychiatry
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The branch of psychiatry that specializes in the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychopathological disorders of children, adolescents, and their families, child and adolescent psychiatry encompasses the clinical investigation of phenomenology, biologic factors, psychosocial factors, genetic factors, demographic factors, environmental factors, history, and the response to interventions of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders (Kaplan and Saddock).
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See also
- Biological psychiatry
- Childhood psychiatric disorders
- Child psychopathology
- Child and adolescent mental health services
- Developmental disorders
- Medical model
- Psychiatry
- Anti-psychiatry
- Biopsychiatry controversy
- Peter Breggin
- Controversy about ADHD
- Rennie v. Klein - right to refuse treatment
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