Branches of psychiatry

Biological psychiatry

Biological psychiatry is psychiatric school and discipline that emphasizes physical, chemical, and neurological causes of psychiatric illnesses and treatment approaches.

• Biological psychiatry [618 KB]
• Psychopharmacotherapy [95 KB]

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapeutic and psychodinamic psychiatry deals with processes at which persons, who want to get rid of symptoms or seek ways for personal development, need a psychotherapist to help them understand the way they behave in both health and illness, from a standpoint of motivation, emphasizing psychological meanings and biological instincts as a driving force for changes.

• Personality and psychic apparatus 1 [43 KB]
• Personality and psychic apparatus 2 [109 KB]
• Psychological medicine [66 KB]

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Forensic psychiatry

Forensic psychiatry deals with legal issues related to mental disorders. Forensic psychiatric experts give expert opinions about persons who, due to their mental illness, have problems with legal issues of civil and criminal law and in out-of-court proceedings.

• Forensic psychiatry [109 KB]
• Forensic reports in psychiatry [60 KB]
• Skale procjene [61 KB]
• Prikaz priručnika za procjenu rizika opasnosti od zlostavljanja u obitelji (SARA), nasilnosti (HCR-20) i seksualnog zlostavljanja (SVR-20). [277 KB]

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Social psychiatry

Social psychiatry deals with cultural, ecological and sociological factors that cause precipitate, intensify, prolong, or in some other way complicate the maladaptive behavior patterns, and their treatment.

• Mobbing.hr – most frequently asked questions and answers [2506 KB]
• Social psychiatry in the past and today [49 KB]
• Social and community psychiatry [48 KB]
• Sociotherapy [107 KB]

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Stress, psychotrauma and PTSD

Stress, psychotrauma and PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) are especially important field of interest for psychiatrists.

• Psychotrauma [76 KB]
• PTSD [652 KB]
• Risk factors of trauma [82 KB]

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Liaison

Consultation-liaison psychiatry deals with cooperation between psychiatrists and other medical experts in order to improve diagnostics, treatment and management of patients with primarily physical illnesses.

• Liaison psychiatry [28 KB]
• Liaison psychiatrist in pain treatment [1082 KB]

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Child and adolescent psychiatry

Child and adolescent psychiatry study mental disorders, diagnostics, prevention and treatment of mental disorders in children and adolescents, persons under 18 years of age.

• Autism [1977 KB]

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Addiction psychiatry

Addiction psychiatry deals with substance related disorders.

• Psychoactive substance dependence [81 KB]
• Awareness of psychoactive substances [2451 KB]

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Geriatric psychiatry

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• Geriatric psychiatry [62 KB]

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