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• Psychiatry
  ...al treatment; from Greek ''iātrikos'': medical, ''iāsthai'': to heal). A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry is a [[psychiatrist]]. ...o be published in 2013, and is expected to have significant impact on many medical fields.<ref name=Kupfer>Kupfer, D.J., Regier, D.A. (2010). Why all of medic
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• Mental health professional
  ===Specialties of psychiatrists=== ...y|PET]] scanning. A medical professional must evaluate the patient for any medical problems or diseases that may be the cause of the mental illness.
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• Occupational therapy
  ...and the importance of crafting with one’s own hands with scientific and medical principles. Early opponents of this view considered wood carving and crafti ...ctice. In a short 20-year span, they successfully convinced the public and medical world of the value of occupational therapy and established standards for th
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• Psychiatric nursing
  ...attitudes in the 19th century which opposed training women to work in the medical field.<ref name="Alfredo, D. 2009"/> ...tor for [[Adverse effect (medicine)|side effects]] and response to these [[medical]] treatments by using assessments. Nurses will also offer information on me
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• Psychology
  ...cess|mind]] and [[behavior]].<ref>Psychology. (n.d.). In ''Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary''. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/psy ...iological substrates of behavior and mental processes. There are different specialties within behavioral neuroscience. For example, [[physiological psychology|phy
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• Clinical depression
  ...or-depressive-disorder/|title=Major Depressive Disorder|publisher=American Medical Network, Inc.|accessdate=2011-01-15}}</ref> ...han those without depression, in part because of greater susceptibility to medical illnesses and suicide. It is unclear whether or not medications affect the
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• School psychology
  ...2-month internship (1500+ hours), which may be in a school or other (e.g., medical) setting. Doctoral level training differs from [[specialist degree|speciali ...PPP07>American Psychological Association Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology (n.d.). Archival description o
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• Psychopathology
  ...[[Abnormal psychology]] is a similar term used more frequently in the non-medical field of [[psychology]]. ...manifestations of such states, or often, both. More widely, many different specialties may be involved in the study of psychopathology. For example, a [[neuroscie
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• Neuroscience
  ...[[nervous system]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Neuroscience|work=Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/neuroscience}}</r ...[[computational neuroscience|computational]], and [[neurological disorders|medical]] aspects of the nervous system. The techniques used by [[neuroscientist]]s
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• Professional certification
  ...de. Certification in the medical profession is often offered by particular specialties. In order to apply professional standards, increase the level of practice, ...of Medical Specialties, a not-for-profit organization, assists 24 approved medical specialty boards in the development and use of standards in the ongoing eva
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