What does PSYCHIATRIC mean?

Definitions for PSYCHIATRIC
psy·chi·atric

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. psychiatric, psychiatricaladjective

    relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry

    "psychiatric disorder"; "psychiatric hospital"

Wiktionary

  1. psychiatricadjective

    Of, or relating to, psychiatry.

Wikipedia

  1. psychiatric

    Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental conditions. These include various issues related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Initial psychiatric assessment of a person typically begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance with clinical concepts listed in diagnostic manuals such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), edited and used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5) was published in May 2013 which re-organized the larger categories of various diseases and expanded upon the previous edition to include information/insights that are consistent with current research.Combined treatment with psychiatric medication and psychotherapy has become the most common mode of psychiatric treatment in current practice, but contemporary practice also includes a wide variety of other modalities, e.g., assertive community treatment, community reinforcement, and supported employment. Treatment may be delivered on an inpatient or outpatient basis, depending on the severity of functional impairment or on other aspects of the disorder in question. An inpatient may be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Research within psychiatry as a whole is conducted on an interdisciplinary basis with other professionals, such as epidemiologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, or clinical psychologists.

ChatGPT

  1. psychiatric

    Psychiatric refers to anything related to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. It pertains to psychiatry, a branch of medicine focusing on mental health. This term could be associated with conditions, diseases, medication, therapy, institutions, or professionals engaged in this medical discipline.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Psychiatricadjective

    of or pertaining to psychiatria

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'PSYCHIATRIC' in Adjectives Frequency: #982

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PSYCHIATRIC in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PSYCHIATRIC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of PSYCHIATRIC in a Sentence

  1. Mary Rosser:

    Women who are on antidepressants or other psychiatric medications may experience missed periods.

  2. Robert Whitaker:

    There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

  3. Daniela Tejada:

    Contrary to their statements for example, he did not have medical and psychiatric care throughout.

  4. Tom Burns:

    An important aspect of psychiatric care is to help restore a patient’s confidence and self respect( as well as controlling symptoms) and this is not helped by them being locked up, i think that the default position should be that patients are admitted to open wards and only moved to locked wards in the instances when they fail to settle.

  5. Michelle Dotson:

    There was a cycle that repeated itself. She'd be fine. She'd be on her meds. Then something would happen, and she would go off her meds, she would maybe leave or disappear. There were times she may have ended up in jail. But usually, they would do a psychiatric evaluation and take her to the state hospital.

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