Pediatric Nursing & Healthcare

Pediatric Psychiatry Nursing

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or Pediatric Psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that emphases on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. Bio-psychosocial factors are explored which influence the development of these psychiatric disorders and treatment levels in different interventions. Various disorders may include psychotic, attention and behavior, mood, anxiety, eating, gender identity and developmental ailments. Nursing care is involved in various stages since the initiation of the treatment until the ailment is normalized. Nurse should be well knowledge in identifying the behavior of children and changing the treatment procedure as per their development. Child psychiatry has become the prominent field in the society to decrease the child mortality rate.