Psychiatric

Definition: Psychiatric

Psychiatric

Adjective

1. Relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry; "psychiatric disorder"; "psychiatric hospital".

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Date "psychiatric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Psychiatric

Crosswords: Psychiatric

You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

Jason, I'm not a doctor yet, but it's my considered opinion you seek psychiatric help. (Valentine; writing credit: Donna Powers)

The psychiatric ward! (The Murder of Dr. Harrigan; writing credit: Sy Bartlett; Charles Belden)

Psychiatric Nursing (1958)

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Books

• Interview Guide for Evaluating Dsm-IV Psychiatric Disorders and the Mental Status Examination (reference)

• Guardianship of the Elderly: Psychiatric and Judicial Aspects (reference)

• Behavioral Procedures for a Psychiatric Unit and Halfway House (reference)

• The Psychiatric Halfway House: A Handbook of Theory and Practice (reference)

• State Mental Hospitals and the Elderly: A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Archives Of Psychiatric Nursing (reference)

• Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology (reference)

• Psychiatric Genetics (reference)

• American Psychiatric Press Library Of Geriatric Library - Cd-Rom (reference)

• Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics Of North America (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace (reference)

• Medical School for Lawyers : The Complete Psychiatric Examination (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Electrophysiological test in a psychiatric hospital. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr..

Drug ward in English psychiatric hospital. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Laurie..

[Interview and psychiatric examination of immigrant at Ellis Island]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

American Psychiatric Association. (references)

Medical, psychiatric, and social services should be available. (references)

ECT should rarely be considered for other psychiatric conditions. (references)

Business

Further specialized divisions are teaching hospitals and psychiatric hospitals. (references)

Health education and psychiatric counseling work- previously taboo in Chinese HCS- will be emphasized. (references)

On the other hand, as seen in Figure 3 and Table 3, the percentage of elderly people in China's total population will grow steadily for the next twenty years, increasing from 6.4% in 1995 to 10.8% in 2020. Chinese healthcare reform is considering strategies for addressing this reality, and prospective foreign HCP are advised to do so as well. Psychiatric services are finally gaining ground in China. (references)

Children

Turkmenistan

The psychological hospital in Bekrova and the psychological clinic in Gok Tepe were closed in 2000. In 2000 a psychiatric hospital opened in Dashoguz for those in need of in-patient care. (references)

Niger

In August the mayor of Niamey reportedly established a program to locate, register, and put in psychiatric care persons with mental disabilities wandering the streets. (references)

Switzerland

While the mother was found guilty and sentenced to 51/2 years in prison and a psychiatric follow-up, the Government failed to prove that the family doctor and three administrative personnel had misjudged the situation and ignored details such as bruises on the child's body. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

Kozlova attended the demonstrations and filed stories on the confinement of human rights activist Elena Urlaeva in a psychiatric hospital. (references)

China

Many thousands of FLG practitioners have been detained in reeducation-through-labor camps; many more have been confined to psychiatric hospitals. (references)

Kazakhstan

In an unconfirmed report, the Keston Institute alleged that Asulbek Nurdanov, a member of the same congregation, was beaten and threatened by local police on October 27. Following a second session of police questioning in early November, Nurdanov allegedly was committed to a psychiatric hospital for 4 days at the request of his father. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

There is good market potential for antibiotics, vaccines, therapeutic medicines, analgesics, tranquilizers, hormones, blood pressure control drugs, anti-ulcerants, drugs for the treatment of cardiac conditions, cancer, psychiatric drugs, contraceptives and birth control prescriptions. (references)

China

Reliable reports indicate that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are in re-education through labor camps; hundreds are in prisons or psychiatric facilities. (references)

Bahrain

Health: Bahrain has a modern, comprehensive health system, whose facilities include in- and out-patient, dental, pediatric, psychiatric, maternity and orthopedic care. (references)

Human Rights

Singapore

His wife agreed with a request by prosecutors that he undergo psychiatric treatment. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

At year's end, Singh was in a hospital for psychiatric evaluation, and a preliminary inquiry was under way. (references)

Uzbekistan

On April 10, the Mirabad district court ordered her to undergo a month of involuntary psychiatric treatment. (references)

Minorities

Switzerland

The three adult defendants were tried, convicted, and were scheduled to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, after which they were to be sentenced. (references)

Switzerland

The fourth defendant was tried as a juvenile; he is required to undergo a psychiatric and educational program for 2 years. (references)

Russia

Pankov reportedly was sent to a psychiatric institution for treatment. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

Some insurance policies also include coverage for psychiatric treatment and for disposition of remains in the event of death. (references)

Women

Croatia

Legislation passed in autumn 2000 created a specific Penal Code provision for family violence to replace inadequate existing provisions, and to direct that perpetrators of family violence, in addition to being punished, be placed under supervision and receive psychiatric treatment. (references)

Sweden

Typically the sentence for abuse is a prison term--14 months on average--or psychiatric treatment. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Observers report that Shanghai labor dissident Wang Miaogen, detained in 1996, was still being held in a psychiatric hospital. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "psychiatric": Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale ♦ Psychiatric Aides ♦ psychiatric hospital ♦ Psychiatric Nursing ♦ Psychiatric Somatic Therapies ♦ Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ♦ social psychiatric nurse ♦ trainee psychiatric nurse. Additional references.

Ending with "psychiatric": non-psychiatric.

Albanian

psikiatrik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏طبيب عقلي متعلق بطب النفس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

психиатричен. (various references)

Chinese 

精神病学 (Psychiatry). (various references)

Czech

psychiatrický. (various references)

Danish

psykiatrisk. (various references)

Dutch

psychiatrisch. (various references)

Esperanto

psikiatra. (various references)

Farsi 

وابسته به روانپزشکی . (various references)

Finnish

psykiatrinen. (various references)

French

psychiatrique. (various references)

German

psychiatrisch. (various references)

Greek 

ψυχιατρικός. (various references)

Hungarian

elmeorvostani, pszichiátriai. (various references)

Italian

psichiatrico. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

精神鑑定 (psychiatric examination). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいし�"か�"てい (psychiatric examination). (various references)

Korean 

� �� 병학. (various references)

Manx

shickeeatragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ychiatricpsay

Portuguese

psiquiátrico, psiquiátrico. (various references)

Romanian

psihiatric. (various references)

Russian 

психиатрический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

psihijatrijski. (various references)

Spanish

psiquiátrico. (various references)

Swedish

psykiatrisk. (various references)

Turkish

psikiyatrik. (various references)

Ukrainian

психіатричний. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "psychiatric": psychiatrically. (additional references)

Words ending with "psychiatric": neuropsychiatric, nonpsychiatric, orthopsychiatric. (additional references)

Words containing "psychiatric": neuropsychiatrically. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Psychiatric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pshychiatric, psychatric, psychiastric, psychiat, psychiatra, Psychiatrie, psychiatris, psychitaric, Psychotria, pyschiatric. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: chiastic, parchisi, pasticci, rachitic, rachitis, scarcity, scratchy.

-4 letters: airship, arctics, ascitic, charity, christy, critics, cryptic, harpist, pachisi, piratic, piscary, practic, psychic, pyritic, satiric, satyric, sciatic, scraich, scratch, spathic, starchy, stichic.

-5 letters: airths, arctic, atypic, capric, capris, catchy, chairs, charts, chirps, chirpy, citric, cratch, crisic, crispy, crista, critic, crypts, cystic, haptic, iatric, ischia, parish.

+1 letter: intrapsychic, physiocratic.

+3 letters: hypocoristical, nonpsychiatric.

+4 letters: psychiatrically, psychometrician.

+5 letters: hypocoristically, intrapsychically, neuropsychiatric, orthopsychiatric, psychohistorical, psychometricians.