Psychologist vs psychiatrist

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which knows more in the field of mental illness?

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Why don’t you build a poll?

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I don’t know how @zoa can you do it

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  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychologist
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Good man @zoa thanks

my son in college is aiming to be a psychologist

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Here the psychiatrist is the one who makes the diagnosis

Might be different for a clinical psychologist

They work as a team of different jobs to treat people

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both can be healing for the person

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Psychiatrist is a medical doctor so deals in medicine, psychologist is a psychology graduate and deals with things like counselling or therapy

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I think they both have merits. Sometimes MI can be treated with therapy and not just drugs.

I was in a Theraputic Community for a year, basically a hospital run by the residents - and we had psychologist meetings for 8 hours a day.

This was way back before the sz diagnosis - when i was just being treated for the BPD,

but it did work. There are many coping skills available, without dosing your self up on anti-psychotics.

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Well a Psychiatrist is the Doctor who diagnoses and medicates and dictates which approach to your care is best. That requires extensive education on mental illness.

A Psychologist, ultimately, is also a Doctor, but works more practically within the care plan laid out by the Psychiatrist. They apply therapy and assess behaviours.

Both are valued and have their roles to play in care. But, I have seen them conflict before.

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Ideally it’s best to see both.

A psychologist can teach coping skills, which helps with reframing thoughts, social skills, independent living skills. These skills increase the quality of a person’s life and reduce the chance of relapse.

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The one that is trusted to write prescriptions.

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Depends. It’s like asking who knows more, someone who works with computer hardware or someone who works with computer software. I feel like psychiatrists deal more with meds and such, and psychologists take a personal approach. Both are good and knowledgeable and intelligent in the matter of psychology.

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I don’t think you can make a blanket statement about most knowledge just by professional title. There are probably some psychiatrists who get by on a narrow diagnostic knowledge and a meds list and then there are probable some psychologists who know the textbook in psychology and everything the psychiatrist knows to diagnose.

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Psychiatrist is probably more useful since the meds can have substantial effect, psychologist is not enough on our case.

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Thats a good point. Psychology does zero for psychotic illness when its in full-on mode. You cannot apply therapy to someone who is detached.

Haloperidol and Lorazepam - that’ll help… quickly :sweat_smile:

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Different styles of treatment really.

Many psychiatrists aren’t very good at psychotherapy practices. Mine is, but the objective of a psychiatric appointment is to manage medications, develop and implement a treatment plan, and offer insight towards the diagnosis.

Therapists such as Psychologists, LLPs, LPCs, and LMSWs do in depth examinations of personal issues, while offering coping skills and different therapeutic interventions.

Psychologists are trained further in doing more advanced examinations that masters level clinicians cannot do.

Psychologists often do clinical and academic research as well.

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Psychiatrists make bank though.

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Usually it’s going to be the psychiatrist who’s going to know more about the different mental illnesses