Overview
Pediatrics and Child Health is an important medical specialty that focuses on providing comprehensive health care to infants, children, and adolescents. It involves prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, injuries, and other health issues that are unique to children and commonly involves a multidisciplinary approach with primary care physicians, pediatricians, psychiatrists, and other medical professionals. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a subspecialty of Pediatrics and Child Health that focuses on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological, emotional, and behavioral disturbances in children and adolescents. This specialty provides important services to children, adolescents, and their families by utilizing evidence-based therapy and pharmacological interventions to treat a variety of mental health disorders.