Psychiatry deals with prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of mental illness. A psychiatrist diagnoses and treats those with mental and emotional disorders such as schizophrenia, addictions, mood and anxiety disorders, substance-abuse disorders, and sexual and adjustment disorders. After assessment, the psychiatrist can diagnose, treat and manage an illness or problem by medication or various forms of psychotherapy. A psychiatrist is qualified to order diagnostic laboratory tests and to prescribe medications, evaluate and treat psychologic and interpersonal problems, and to intervene with families who are coping with stress, crises and other problems.
Physicians in this specialty treat patients suffering from numerous diseases and illnesses, but some of the most common are Learning Disabilities, Co-Dependency, Attention Deficit Hyperactive, clinical depression, Eating Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Mania, Phobias, Schizophrenia, Agoraphobia, Hallucination, Social Anxiety Disorder, Paranoia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Claustrophobia, Panic disorder, and Psychosis.
Once properly diagnosed, practitioners can perform numerous procedures on patients including Adolescent Counseling, Hypnosis, Shock Treatment, Stress Management, Relaxation Therapy, Family Therapy, Marital Therapy, Marital Counseling, Child Counseling, Electroconvulsive therapy, and psychiatric therapy.
To diagnose patients with possible illnesses and diseases, specialists will often perform one of many tests including Psychiatric Evaluation, Personality Tests, Intelligence Tests, Depression Tests, Stress Tests, ADD/ADHD Tests, Abuse Tests, psychiatric exam, Sexual Health Tests, and Addictions Tests.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 34,770 practicing psychiatrists. Broken out by state, psychiatry doctor density in Alabama is 307, in Alaska is 80, in Arizona is 594, in Arkansas is 191, in California is 4,602, in Colorado is 462, in Connecticut is 710, in Delaware is 107, in District of Columbia is 365, in Florida is 1,309, in Georgia is 841, in Hawaii is 188, in Idaho is 72, in Illinois is 1,365, in Indiana is 484, in Iowa is 266, in Kansas is 277, in Kentucky is 400, in Louisiana is 352, in Maine is 254, in Maryland is 988, in Massachusetts is 1,976, in Michigan is 1,006, in Minnesota is 513, in Mississippi is 181, in Missouri is 613, in Montana is 86, in Nebraska is 150, in Nevada is 145, in New Hampshire is 176, in New Jersey is 1,048, in New Mexico is 240, in New York is 4,197, in North Carolina is 940, in North Dakota is 65, in Ohio is 1,202, in Oklahoma is 301, in Oregon is 418, in Pennsylvania is 1,676, in Rhode Island is 241, in South Carolina is 469, in South Dakota is 56, in Tennessee is 457, in Texas is 1,543, in Utah is 192, in Vermont is 110, in Virginia is 799, in Washington is 705, in West Virginia is 164, in Wisconsin is 507, and in Wyoming is 46.
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