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Psychiatrist
* Many psychiatrists also believe compulsive shopping disease
  - use medication to treat the disorder
  - are clean-shaven
  - believe that all sin is just hang ups
  - have a predominantly private practice
  - now specialize in treating depression
  - prescribe exercise as treatment for mental depression
  - reduce or eliminate medication after a year or two
  - treat depression with drugs that raise brain levels of serotonin
  - use both medication and forms of talk therapy
* More psychiatrists begin to diagnose and treat the disorder successfully in children.
* Most Psychiatrists only handle medication prescriptions for patients.
* Most psychiatrists also complete a residency in psychiatry
  - are pre-med majors in undergraduate colleges and universities
  - believe in the primacy of biology
  - claim no expertise in matters of morality or law
  - use drugs as a treatment
* Some psychiatrists are perfectly comfortable working primarily as pharmacologists
  - choose to engage in therapy with clients
  - continue to do therapy
  - gain additional training and experience within the field of psychiatry
  - specialize further in the treatment of certain age groups or illnesses
* Some psychiatrists specialize in group therapy or individual counseling
  - therapies such as treatment of alcohol and chemical dependencies
  - still insist there are neurotics with normal sexual lives.
  * A 'psychiatrist' medical doctor who specializes in psychiatry, and treats people with mental illness. Psychiatrists can prescribe psychiatric medication
* access both the mental and physical aspects of psychological disturbance.
* admit it can sometimes be hard to distinguish deeply held beliefs from delusions.
* also act as consultants in drug and alcohol programs and to community services
  - have experience evaluating many categories of violent-prone individuals
  - learn how medications sometimes cause problems to the brain
* are MDs, and they can prescribe medication
  - so they can prescribe medication
  - able to prescribe medication
* are also available to diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders
  - best able to address biological and psychosocial issues
  - leaders in the development and practice of psychotherapies
  - counselors
  - deans of about a dozen medical schools
  - experts by profession, but service users are experts by experience
  - free to declare as many people disordered as they wish
  - in charge in mental wards
* are medical doctors and can prescribe medication
  - first and foremost
  - that have specialized in psychological illnesses
* are medical doctors who acquire specialized training in the field of psyciatry
  - administer medications to psychologically disturbed clients
  - diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders
  - specialize in treating mental illnesses
* are medical doctors with several years of training in human biology and treatments
  - specialty training in mental health
  - more likely than psychologists to treat individuals with severe mental disorders
  - often reluctant to deal with violent children
* are physicians who can treat patients medically and therapeutically
  - have special training in emotional and mental health
  - specialize in the treatment of psychological disorders
  - with specialized training in mental health
* are physicians, and in general they are the only ones that can prescribe medication
  - trained to provide medical diagnosis and treatment
  - primary mental health physicians
  - responsible for keeping up with the advancing standard of care
  - seriously interested in helping their patients
* are the basic helpers of ad men
  - care givers who use biological intervention
* are the only mental health professionals who can prescribe medication
  - who prescribe medication
  - physicians best suited to diagnose and treat depression
* are, first and foremost, medical doctors.
* assert that suicide in any form is absolutely and completely a personalized decision.
* believe that a depression diagnosis is missed in up to two-third of affected patients.
* call it dysthymia or chronic sadness if the blue mood lasts for two years or more.
* can diagnose and treat depression, phobias, neuroses
  - help people cope with the depression that often accompanies visual loss
  - prescribe antidepressant drugs because they are physicians
* can prescribe medication and often practice some form of psychotherapy
  - for problems such as depression or sleep disturbances
  - medication, do diagnostic testing, and provide therapy
  - medications, if needed
  - specialise in psychotherapy during training
  - use videoconferencing to provide psychiatric services to patients at remote sites
* categorize symptoms into three categories.
* classify childhood depression into two types-major depressive disorder and dysthymia.
* come from all kinds of ethnic and religious backgrounds.
* create the diseases they pretend to cure by an act of rhetorical fiat.
* deal with the study, treatment, and prevention of mental illness.
* diagnose and treat the following anxiety disorders.
* do hand out pills
  - study the whole psychological history of a person
* easily understand the idea of seeing a patient for as long as it takes.
* evaluate Internet communication
  - and treat individuals with a wide range of difficulties
* feel that bedtime reading helps to build strong bonding with the child.
* first graduate from medical school.
* have a checklist to determine whether a patient is autistic
  - high suicide rate
  - medical background and graduate from medical school
  - number of therapies that have shown to be effective
  - very important role in the assessment of threats
  - an MD degree and can legally take whatever drug they want
  - more training in the clinical depression and usually prescribe anti-depressants
* make a medically based decision and can prescribe.
* often have conflicting interests
  - use drugs, imprisonment, and harmful adversives on their victims
  - work with upset, fearful, or depressed people
* only have a description of abnormal moods in their textbooks.
* play a key role in the delivery of mental health services.
* prescribe medicine.
* provide evaluation and medical management
  - treatment of children, adults, and families
  - individual, group, and family therapy
* recommend both individual and group social activities for chronically ill children.
* refer their patients for psychiatric rehabilitation.
* say that one in four people are mentally ill
  - is mentally ill
  - out of four people are mentally ill
* sometimes seem a bit insecure in the medical world.
* specialise in their own defects.
* spend many years learning about how the body and the brain work
  - how medications can help the brain work better
* study, treat, and prevent mental illness.
* talk to psychologists.
* treat patients with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
* try to free people from guilt.
* use a wide range of treatments
  - many forms of psychotherapy
* usually use medications in combination with psychotherapy
  - work closely with the patient's primary care physician and family
* view man as an animal.
* work from a bio-chemical perspective
+ Psychiatry, Prescribing psychiatric medication
  * Psychiatrists spend many years learning about how the body and the brain work. Psychiatrists must learn about all kinds of illnesses. Sometimes a disease in the body causes the brain to work poorly. Cancer in the pancreas causes depression. Blood sugar problems in diabetes mellitus can cause a bad temper. These are only two examples.
  * Psychiatrists spend many years learning how medications can help the brain work better. Psychiatrists also learn how medications sometimes cause problems to the brain. Sometimes psychologists send their patients to a psychiatrist if the patient seems to have a problem that medicine might help. The patient should  continue to see the psychologist.