Psychiatrists can learn an incredible amount about a child's history, average day, and past treatments by engaging in imaginative play...

Caregivers will often ask why a physician completing an assessment will often seem to stop the formal evaluation and begin what looks...

Child psychiatrists typically see patients between 4 and 18 years of age. Understandably, the way a child psychiatrist interacts with a...

Many children live in blended families, where in addition to their biological parents, they may also be raised by step parents, extended...

Whenever a person in the community is contacted to get a better idea of how a patient behaves outside of the healthcare setting, that is...

Many children are cared for by adults who are not their legal guardians. In fact, their primary caregiver may not even be biologically...

Child psychiatrists typically begin seeing patients at 4 years old. In general, this reflects that: Many behavioral challenges declare...

I'm going to spend the next several posts on what it's like to start care with an outpatient child psychiatrist. Currently I'm debating...