Contrasting child psychiatry and family therapy
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This paper contrasts child psychiatry as a health care discipline with family therapy as a diagnostic and treatment method. Family therapy limits itself to the family system level, while child psychiatry encompasses multiple system levels from the organ, individual, family, and organizational levels to society
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