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Anxiety Learning Center

Doctor Specialties could include:
Your doctor can help you determine if your anxiety would be best evaluated and treated by a mental health care professional.
Source:ADAM
Date:December 15, 2008
Allied health personnel may be involved in the diagnosis and treatment of persons with anxiety at a variety of stages. Nurses will likely be involved in the initial interview of patients who present with anxiety. Psychological technicians may help...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
A qualified mental health professional should be consulted if a child's anxiety begins to affect his or her ability to perform the three main responsibilities of childhood: to learn, to make friends, and to have fun. Often fears and anxieties come...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
A psychologist is a social scientist who studies behavior and mental processes, generally in a research or clinical setting.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
American psychologist. Granville Stanley Hall played a decisive role in the organization of American psychology. He invited Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to America, thus contributing to the diffusion of psychoanalysis. Above all, he gave a crucial ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
A physician who specializes in the treatment of children from birth through adolescence. A pediatrician is a physician who has taken extra training in the development and diseases of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults through age 21....
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
American pediatrician 1870–1960 A portrait of Owen Wilson. In the preface of "The Care and Feeding of Southern Babies," Wilson said that other similar works focused on childrearing in cooler climates, and therefore were inapplicable to infants in ...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
After a doctor completes medical school and is licensed to practice medicine, the physician may pursue a rigorous 3 year training program in Internal Medicine.
Source:Healthline
Date:February 20, 2008
Aerospace medicine is a field within the specialty of Medical Practice and Preventive Medicine. Preventive Medicine Specialists promote, protect and maintain the health of populations
Source:Healthline
Date:February 20, 2008
Upon graduation from medical school, a doctor enters a three-year psychiatric residency program for training in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mood, anxiety, substance-abuse and gender-identity disorders, as well as and other psychological and interpersonal problems. A geriatric psychiatric fellowship offers psychiatrists an additional 12 months of training to provide them with the skills needed to manage the neuropsychiatric problems of the aging population.
Source:Healthline
Date:February 20, 2008
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) offers subspecialty certification in Adolescent Medicine for practitioners of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Adolescent
Source:Healthline
Date:February 20, 2008
The American Board of Medical Specialties recognizes Family Medicine as a distinct discipline requiring an additional three years of training for doctors who wish to become Board Certified in this field. Family Medicine doctors are usually primary care providers (PCPs) [formerly general practitioners, or GPs] for the entire family.
Source:Healthline
Date:February 20, 2008
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