Psychiatry and Psychology

Child Psychiatry

The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in children.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in children.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Psychiatry, Child

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specialty: not for mental disorders in children ( = MENTAL DISORDERS and CHILD or other child check tag)

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Tree Numbers

  1. F04.096w.544w.193
  2. H02w.403w.690w.130

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Child Psychiatry. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002665. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002665
  2. Child Psychiatry. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68583933