Ginari Gibb Price received her medical training at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She went on to study psychiatry with an internship at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and a residency at the Morehouse School of Medicine. "I am double board certified and triple board eligible," she says, with areas of expertise that include anxiety disorders, substance dependence, and child and adolescent psychiatry.
There is a big difference in treating a psychiatric patient who is an adult, and in treating one who is a child or an adolescent, says Ginari Gibb Price. The difference comes with the biological, psychological, and social factors that are at work in the patients' mind; the thinking, feeling and behavior of the average child is going to be much different than that of the average adult. One must also take into consideration the developmental stage of the minor, and environmental factors such as school and parenting. A child and adolescent psychiatrist has more specialized medical education as a psychiatrist who treats adults exclusively, and be able to more comprehensive care.
In a child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, for example, a child psychiatrist like Dr. Ginari Price can provide valuable insight and treatment. She will typically interview the parents and child during a first consultation, and check the child's vital signs like height, weight and blood pressure, and draw bloodwork. This can help her to better prescribe any necessary medication. Then she will schedule another appointment and begin to prepare a detailed report on her evaluation of the patient, and the knowledge that she has gathered from that first consultation will be applied to her therapeutic recommendations.
There is a big difference in treating a psychiatric patient who is an adult, and in treating one who is a child or an adolescent, says Ginari Gibb Price. The difference comes with the biological, psychological, and social factors that are at work in the patients' mind; the thinking, feeling and behavior of the average child is going to be much different than that of the average adult. One must also take into consideration the developmental stage of the minor, and environmental factors such as school and parenting. A child and adolescent psychiatrist has more specialized medical education as a psychiatrist who treats adults exclusively, and be able to more comprehensive care.
In a child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, for example, a child psychiatrist like Dr. Ginari Price can provide valuable insight and treatment. She will typically interview the parents and child during a first consultation, and check the child's vital signs like height, weight and blood pressure, and draw bloodwork. This can help her to better prescribe any necessary medication. Then she will schedule another appointment and begin to prepare a detailed report on her evaluation of the patient, and the knowledge that she has gathered from that first consultation will be applied to her therapeutic recommendations.