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The actual definition of an adolescent psychiatrist "is a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of

Osteopathy who specializes in the diagnosis and, if indicated, the treatment of disorders of

thinking, feeling, and/or behavior affecting children, adolescents, and their families."

For someone to become an adolescent psychiatrist it takes on average nine to ten years of

special training and schooling. It requires graduating from high school, then going to college and

getting a bachelors degree in either art or science, then four years of medical school, with a year

of interning, followed by three years of training at a resident level in medicine and neurology,

and then two years of college dealing with training and internships dealing with children,

adolescents, and their families. Even though it is not required one can take the American Board

of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) examination which will give one more certification and put

then higher up on......

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