Psychiatrists are medical doctors that attend to patients’ mental, emotional, and behavioral symptoms. Depending on what field of psychiatry, there are many different treatments that are used. They may prescribe medicine, including tranquilizers, antipsychotics, and antidepressants. A Child psychiatrist may also use play therapy.

Psychiatrists normally work regular hours, those in private practice make their own schedule usually to suit their patients’ time needs. Many psychiatrists in private practice work some nights and weekends to see patients who cannot take time off during business hours. Psychiatrists can make any where from $55,000 to $165,000 depending on where they work and what kind o

f psychiatry they do. The work place environment is almost always a comfortable office setting that will put the patient at ease. Psychiatrists must have a limited attitude, their values may be totally different than their patients but they still cannot say anything and judge their patients. This would probably be difficult for me because I might find it hard to work with people that don’t have the same views as me but then again, they would be coming to me for help.

I think that if I made it through college and all the public speaking I would have to do in college that I could overcome that weakness. I also have a weakness in science and there is a lot of science involved in becoming a psychiatrist. I want to start out at college with this career choice in mind but if I find I don’t think that I would like it then I would change my major.

Students interested in psychiatry should read all they can about it. They should also talk

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