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 attention deficit hyperactive, learning disabilities, co-dependency, attention deficit disorder, clinical depression, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, mania, schizophrenia, claustrophobia, paranoia, agoraphobia, psychosis, social anxiety disorder, hallucination, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and panic attacks.

Once properly diagnosed, practitioners can perform numerous procedures on patients including marital therapy, marital counseling, adolescent counseling, child counseling, stress management, hypnosis, family therapy, shock treatment, relaxation therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychiatric therapy.

To diagnose patients with possible illnesses and diseases, specialists will often perform one of many tests including psychiatric evaluation, intelligence tests, personality tests, add/adhd tests, depression tests, stress tests, abuse tests, psychiatric exam, sexual health tests, and addictions tests.

Doctor density varies by specialty and location. Arkansas has 219 practicing psychiatrists. Broken out by city, psychiatry doctor density in Ash Flat is 1, in Barling is 3, in Batesville is 7, in Benton is 2, in Bentonville is 6, in Berryville is 1, in Blytheville is 3, in Booneville is 1, in Camden is 1, in Clarksville is 1, in Conway is 5, in El Dorado is 5, in Fayetteville is 16, in Forrest City is 2, in Fort Smith is 14, in Harrison is 2, in Helena is 1, in Hope is 1, in Hot Springs is 5, in Hot Springs National Park is 5, in Jacksonville is 2, in Jonesboro is 11, in Kensett is 1, in Little Rock is 94, in Malvern is 1, in Marcella is 1, in Marianna is 1, in Marion is 1, in Maumelle is 3, in Mena is 1, in Monticello is 1, in Morrilton is 1, in Mount Ida is 1, in Mountain Home is 1, in Nashville is 2, in North Little Rock is 19, in Pine Bluff is 11, in Rogers is 2, in Russellville is 5, in Searcy is 5, in Sheridan is 3, in Sherwood is 1, in Springdale is 7, in Star City is 3, in Stuttgart is 3, in Texarkana is 8, in Van Buren is 1, and in West Memphis is 1.

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According to 2005 Census estimates, Arkansas has a population of 2,779,154. Of this population, 662,920 are under the age of 18 and 381,547 are at or above the age of 65.