Psychiatrist - Subspecialties

Subspecialties

The field of psychiatry itself can be divided into various subspecialties. These include:

• Addiction psychiatry
• Adult psychiatry

• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Consultation-liaison psychiatry
• Cross-cultural psychiatry
• Emergency psychiatry
• Forensic psychiatry
• Learning disability
• Neurodevelopmental disorder
• Neuropsychiatry
• Psychosomatic medicine
• Cognition diseases as in various forms of dementia

Some psychiatric practitioners specialize in helping certain age groups. Child and adolescent (pediatric) psychiatrists work with children and teenagers in addressing psychological problems, so that they are aware of the problem. Those who work with the elderly are called geriatric psychiatrists or geropsychiatrists. Those who practice psychiatry in the workplace are called organizational and occupational psychiatrists in the U.S. (occupational psychology is the name used for the most similar discipline in the UK). Psychiatrists working in the courtroom and reporting to the judge and jury, in both criminal and civil court cases, are called forensic psychiatrists, who also treat mentally disordered offenders and other patients whose condition is such that they have to be treated in secure units.

Other psychiatrists and mental health professionals in the field of psychiatry may also specialize in psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, psychiatric genetics, neuroimaging, dementia-related disorders as Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, sleep medicine, pain medicine, palliative medicine, eating disorders, sexual disorders, women's health, Global Mental Health, early psychosis intervention, mood disorders and anxiety disorders (including obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder).