Origin Leo Kanner established the first academic child psychiatry department in the world in 1930, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and is credited as the first physician in the United States identified specifically as a child psychiatrist.
Child and adolescent psychiatry, sometimes called pediatric psychiatry, is the branch of psychiatry focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents and their families, distinct from general adult psychiatry in its developmental focus. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own accountLeo Kanner established the first academic child psychiatry department in the world in 1930, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and is credited as the first physician in the United States identified specifically as a child psychiatrist. 2 Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
WikipediaClassification tableQuote, Classification table
Medical specialties that focus on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of disease.
2. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead section
Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families.
History section, first paragraph
When the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, the first psychiatric journal in English, was published in 1848, child psychiatry didn't exist as its own field yet.
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