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child psychiatry

American  

noun

  1. the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children.

  2. psychiatric techniques used in therapy for children.


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The messages are harmful and dangerous, according to Dr Dennis Ougrin, professor of child psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

To better manage these issues required a new subspecialty outside of general pediatrics and child psychiatry, one that has expertise in advocacy, expected and unexpected streams of development, learning and emotional health.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

If there’s a strike, the Morningside campus will operate only an emergency room and inpatient child psychiatry ward, according to a message the hospitals’ presidents sent to staffers Wednesday.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

There was a point in time where you literally couldn’t get a specialist in child psychiatry, or therapy of any kind, because everyone was taken up.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2022

Dr. Minuchin studied child psychiatry in the United States with Dr. Nathan Ackerman, who later established what is now the Ackerman Institute for the Family in Manhattan.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2017