{"id":174,"date":"2012-01-30T07:59:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:55:44","slug":"psychiatrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/2012\/01\/30\/psychiatrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A psychiatrist is a physician whose education includes a medical degree (MD or DO) and at least four additional years of study and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpa-apc.org\/browse\/documents\/27\" target=\"_blank\">training<\/a>. As physicians, psychiatrists can prescribe and monitor medications.<\/p>\n<h3>Practice<\/h3>\n<p><em>Psychiatrists<\/em> are the primary mental healthcare givers. They provide medical\/psychiatric evaluation and treatment for emotional and behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n<p>They assess and treat mental illnesses through a combination of <a title=\"Psychotherapy involves regular discussions with patients about their problems; the psychiatrist helps them find solutions through changes in their behavioral patterns, the exploration of their past experiences, or group and family therapy sessions.\">psychotherapy<\/a>\u00a0(see full <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention1\/files\/2012\/02\/ECI_Glossary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Glossary<\/a>), <a title=\"Psychoanalysis involves long-term psychotherapy and counseling for patients. In many cases, medications are administered to correct chemical imbalances that cause emotional problems\">psychoanalysis<\/a>\u00a0(see full <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention1\/files\/2012\/02\/ECI_Glossary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Glossary<\/a>), hospitalization, and medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psychiatrist is a physician whose education includes a medical degree (MD or DO) and at least four additional years of study and training. As physicians, psychiatrists can prescribe and monitor medications. Practice Psychiatrists are the primary mental healthcare givers. They provide medical\/psychiatric evaluation and treatment for emotional and behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-medical-field-professionals-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}