Career Description
In the future I am going to be a psychiatrist for adolescents and children specifically in a mental hospital inpatient or outpatient. Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders.These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Initial psychiatric assessment of a person usually begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted as needed. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed based off of criteria listed in diagnostic manuals such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual …show more content…
I am definitely open to both options. Psychiatric treatments are way different compared to the past back then when people were hospitalised for long periods of time usually 6 months to multiple years but also people were admitted for falling from a horse at war, Asthma, jealousy etc.. now a days people receiving psychiatric treatment are more likely to be seen as outpatients. If hospitalization is required, the average hospital stay is around one to two weeks, with only a small number receiving long-term hospitalization. Psychiatric inpatients are people admitted to a hospital or clinic to receive psychiatric care. Some are admitted involuntarily, for things as broad as having a mental health condition, or as narrow as being an immediate danger to themselves and/or others. People may be admitted voluntarily if they decide themselves that they are a danger to themselves or others . Once in the care of a hospital, people are assessed, monitored, and often given medication and care from a multidisciplinary team, which may include physicians, pharmacists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric nurses, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatric social workers, …show more content…
In the very first appointment the psychiatrist does a evaluation and from then on there are Follow-up appointments with a focus on making medication adjustments, reviewing medication effects on the condition and you, considering the impact of other medical disorders on the patient's mental and emotional functioning, and counseling patients regarding changes they might make to be able to heal and rid of symptoms. The frequency with which a psychiatrist sees people in treatment varies widely depending on severity and stability of each person's condition. Many Psychiatrist have limited their practice to just prescribing the meds and talking about the meds but if I were to do outpatient work I would like to talk in depth with the patient about what they are feeling and what they are going through in each appointment to avoid having a middleman or an extra unnecessary
In the future I am going to be a psychiatrist for adolescents and children specifically in a mental hospital inpatient or outpatient. Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders.These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Initial psychiatric assessment of a person usually begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted as needed. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed based off of criteria listed in diagnostic manuals such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual …show more content…
I am definitely open to both options. Psychiatric treatments are way different compared to the past back then when people were hospitalised for long periods of time usually 6 months to multiple years but also people were admitted for falling from a horse at war, Asthma, jealousy etc.. now a days people receiving psychiatric treatment are more likely to be seen as outpatients. If hospitalization is required, the average hospital stay is around one to two weeks, with only a small number receiving long-term hospitalization. Psychiatric inpatients are people admitted to a hospital or clinic to receive psychiatric care. Some are admitted involuntarily, for things as broad as having a mental health condition, or as narrow as being an immediate danger to themselves and/or others. People may be admitted voluntarily if they decide themselves that they are a danger to themselves or others . Once in the care of a hospital, people are assessed, monitored, and often given medication and care from a multidisciplinary team, which may include physicians, pharmacists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric nurses, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatric social workers, …show more content…
In the very first appointment the psychiatrist does a evaluation and from then on there are Follow-up appointments with a focus on making medication adjustments, reviewing medication effects on the condition and you, considering the impact of other medical disorders on the patient's mental and emotional functioning, and counseling patients regarding changes they might make to be able to heal and rid of symptoms. The frequency with which a psychiatrist sees people in treatment varies widely depending on severity and stability of each person's condition. Many Psychiatrist have limited their practice to just prescribing the meds and talking about the meds but if I were to do outpatient work I would like to talk in depth with the patient about what they are feeling and what they are going through in each appointment to avoid having a middleman or an extra unnecessary