Adolescent Psychology?

Shrinkrap
Thu, 07 May 2009 00:54:32 +0000

After medical school, you could also do peds, then Behavioral Pediatrics, but it would be a LONG time before you get to study Psychology. Most behavioral peds I know seem to focus on younger kids with behavior problems (like ADHD) and developmental delays. Not exactly “psychology”. I wonder if that’s what Bigredmed means? I believe there are many projects underway to help Pediatricians (and Psychologists, for that matter) do " Psychiatry". You should know that in Psychiatry, you will primarily be expected to prescribe, and will need to work hard to resist it’s lure ($$$, for example), if you want to do something more “psychological”.

Bigredmed, I think Psych residencies vary a lot. From what I’ve heard (my own was in the 80’s, but I meet recent grads at meetings . I started out looking to triple board, and I did two years of peds. Can’t imagine how I would use the Peds board now.), there’s a lot of biological psychiatry training programs, that seem to provide a more medical than psychodynamic/analytic model. I didn’t realize you could now do ALL psych with NO medicine?