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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A psychiatrist will have a medical degree and 3-4 years of medical residency under grueling, punishing conditions, seeing all sorts of actual patients in a medical setting with supervising physicians so that they will really have an educated, informed approach to what is going on both physically, biologically, as well as psychologically with your child, but carry on thinking a psychologist that went to 'grad school' for a year is 'just as good or better'. [/quote]

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I'm a clinical psychologist and it sounds like you have innacurate information about our level of education and training. A clinical psychologist has a doctorate in psychology, which takes anywhere from 5-6 years to complete, on average. We also have many years of clinical experience in clinics, hospitals, agencies and schools seeing patients with mental health problems under intensive supervision, including a year-long full time clinical internship. Before we can be licensed we have to pass a rigorous national exam and log anywhere from an additional 1-2 years of supervised practice. We certainly aren't medical doctors, however we are experts in behavioral health and must take classes in psychopharmacology, research methods, testing and the biological bases of behavior and mental illness. We're not better than psychiatrists. We complement their strengths and work along side of them for the good of the patient.[/quote]

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