WHO IS A CHILD AND ADOLEMENTAL PSYCHIATRIST?
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is developed by the European Union of European Medical Specialties (ATUB) with medical methods, standards and approaches by a specialist physician for children under 18 years of age. It is defined as the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems (ATUB 2001).
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists are specialist physicians who, after completing 6 years of medical education, received 4-year specialization training in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Diseases as a result of the Medical Specialization Examination. All the difficulties in the mental, cognitive, academic and social areas that may occur during the child's developmental period are within the scope of child and adolescent psychiatry and the first person to be consulted is the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
WHAT DOES A CHILD AND ADOLETE PSYCHIATRIST?
It provides counseling to families about the child's mental, cognitive, social, developmental and academic fields. Plans preventive interventions in children at risk of developing mental illness. Diagnoses mental illnesses and requests psychometric tests and examinations required for diagnosis. Plans treatments for mental illnesses. This treatment can be with medication or psychotherapy. When necessary, it works in cooperation with other units working with children's mental health and directs the team.
WHAT SHOULD A CHILD AND Adolescent Psychiatrist APPLY?
Parents have the responsibility to meet their children's basic care and needs. Basic care and needs include shelter, nutrition, security, education, etc. Psychological and psychological needs of the child, such as meeting the needs of the child, are also included.
Although there is no deterioration in the child's living spaces and development, it is recommended that the child be evaluated in terms of mental health. In addition, in the following cases and in the presence of similar problems, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist should be consulted in case of deterioration at a level that may affect the child's family-social-school functionality.
1- Delay in the developmental stages of the child (General development, language-speech and communication development) ( autism, language and speech disorder, developmental-mental retardation). Regression or loss in speaking skills, social communication and eye contact, regression or loss of ability to look at one's name, initiation of repetitive movements, beginning of repetitive words, etc.). , behavioral disorder.
4- School problems, school refusal, refusal to study, learning difficulties, attention deficit, hyperactivity (excessive activity), test anxiety.
5-Fears, anxieties , withdrawal, obsessions, shyness, unhappiness, reluctance, anger, irritability, social phobia, specific phobia, depression, thoughts or behaviors of harming oneself and/or the environment.
6- Tics.
7- Problems with bedwetting, pooping and other toilet habits.
8- Eating problems (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder), sleep problems.
9- Traumas, adjustment disorders.
10- Divorce and separation process.
11- Seeing images, hearing voices, deterioration in evaluating reality.
12 - Internet, technology, alcohol, substance, cigarette, etc. addictions.
13- Psychosomatic complaints such as headache, abdominal pain, palpitation, shortness of breath, fainting, nausea, vomiting that cannot be explained by organic causes.
14- The child has a chronic organic disease.
15- Receiving counseling about the child-rearing process.
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