25^th World Summit on Psychology, Psychiatry & Psychotherapy October 19-20, 2017 San Francisco, California, USA

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Initially psychiatric assessment of a person begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. Psychiatry is a highly visible activity, lack of care in the community, compulsion, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse are few motivation. Starting from the identification of the major mental illnesses and how they are considered distinction from normality. Flourishing of a psychoanalysis and its transformation into more accessible psychotherapies gave a chance for better understanding. Modern psychiatry brings with it new controversies such as the medicalization of normal life, power of the drug companies and the use of psychiatry as an agent of social control.

Psychotherapy is known as talk therapy. It is a process of psychological method for treating mental health problems by talking with a psychiatrist, psychologist or any other mental health provider. It is a way to treat persons with a mental disorder by helping them understand their illness. It teaches people strategies and gives them tools to deal with stress, unhealthy thoughts and behaviors. The different types of Psychotherapy are Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy and Family Therapy & Group Therapy. Psychotherapy helps us learn how to take control of our life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills.

Psychiatric disorder is a psychological syndrome or behavioural pattern that causes suffering or a poor ability to function in ordinary life which occurs in an individual, and shows the symptoms of distress via a painful symptom or increases the risk of death or disability. The term psychiatric disorder means a mental disorder or illness that interferes with the way a person behaves, interacts with others and functions in a daily life. Psychiatric disorders are also known as mental health disorders or mental health illnesses.

Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology is a specialty in professional psychology that reflects an experimental clinical approach distinguished by the use of principles of human learning and development and theories of cognitive processing to promote meaningful change in thinking and maladaptive human behavior. Behavioural therapies are based on the way you behave or the way you think (cognitive). These therapies recognise that it is possible to change or recondition our behaviour or thoughts to overcome specific problems. Different types of therapies are Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Behavioural therapy & Cognitive therapy, Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT).

Personality disorder is a group of mental illnesses. People with personality disorder have problems to maintain healthy relationships. It’s a form of psychiatric disorder. The different types of Personality Disorders are Bipolar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder. Personality disorders are defined by behaviors and experiences that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, interpersonal functioning, emotiveness, or impulse control. Personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60% of psychiatric patients that makes them the most frequent of psychiatric diagnosis.

Addiction psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that focuses on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of people who are suffering from one or more disorders related to addiction. This may include disorders involving legal and illegal drugs, food, gambling, sex and other impulse control disorders. Addiction psychiatrists are substance abuse experts. Growing amounts of scientific knowledge, such as the treatments and health effects to substance abuse, have led to advancements in the field of addiction psychiatry.

Innovations in the range of evidence based medication, therapies and psycho-social services such as psychiatric rehabilitation, employment, housing and peer supports have made wellness and recovery for people living with mental health conditions. Research showed that half of the cases with mental illness begin by age 14. Treatment options for mental health conditions will vary from person to person. Even people who have the the same diagnosis will have different kinds of experiences, needs, objectives and goals for treatment. Therapy can take many forms, from learning relaxation skills to intensively reworking our thinking patterns. Psychiatrists and psychologists use specially designed assessment tools to evaluate a person for mental illness. Millions of Americans are surviving with mental health problems such as social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, drug addiction and personality disorders. Treatment includes medication and psychotherapy. A psychologist is trained in a way to evaluate and diagnose mental illnesses but usually treats them by counseling or behavioral therapy.

Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as a cause of mental disorder. Although many behaviours could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology deals with behavior in a clinical context. The science of abnormal psychology studies two types of behaviors: maladaptive and adaptive behaviors.

Developmental Psychology explains about the development of humans over time. It explain both the effects of nurturing from babies to adults and the effect of nature, as the culture itself evolve through the years and decades. Developmental Psychology is an amalgamation of various disciplines in Psychology which are having a shared purpose but dissimilar from one another in remaining respects.

Child and adolescent psychiatry or Pediatric Psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that involves working with children, adolescents and thier families with emotional and behavioral illnesses. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offer families the advantage of a medical education, the medical tradition of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care. Child and adolescent psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and thier families. It investigates the biopsychosocial factor that influence the development and course of psychiatric disorders and treatment response to various interventions.

Social psychology is a discipline that had bridged the gap between psychology and sociology. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, behaviors and feelings are influenced by the actual, implied or imagined presence of others. In this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, behaviors and feelings include all psychological variables that are measurable in a human being.

Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and justice system. It is the study to analyse a rapidly growing discipline professionally practiced by psychologists within the areas of clinical psychology, counselling psychology, Forensic statistics, school psychology and they are engaged as experts and represent themselves in an activity primarily intended to provide professional psychological expertise to the judicial system. An important aspect of forensic psychology is the ability to testify in court as an expert witness, reformulating psychological findings into the legal language of the courtroom, providing information to the legal personnel in a way that can be understood.

Psychoanalysis therapy explores how the unconscious mind influences thoughts and behaviours, with the aim of offering insight and resolution to the person seeking therapy. Psychoanalytic therapy tends to look at experiences from early childhood to see if these events have potentially contributed to the current concerns or affected the individual’s life. This form of therapy is considered as a long-term choice and can continue for weeks, months or even years depending on the depth of the concern being explored. Differing from several other therapy types, psychoanalytic therapy aims to make deep-seated changes in personality and emotional development.

Psychodynamic therapy or psychodynamic counselling is a therapeutic approach that embraces the work of all analytic therapies. The aim of psychodynamic therapy is to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness, helping individuals to experience and understand their true or deep-rooted feelings in order to resolve them. It takes the view that our unconscious holds onto painful memories and feelings, which are too difficult for the conscious mind to process. In order to ensure these experiences and memories do not surface, many people will develop defences, such as projections and denial. According to psychodynamic therapy, these defences will often do more harm than good.    

Psychologists define a psychological syndromes broadly as psychological dysfunction in an individual that is associated with impairment or distress and a reaction that is not culturally expected. Psychological dysfunction refers to the cessation of purposeful functioning of cognition, behaviour or emotions. A psychological syndrome is a disorder of the mind involving thoughts, emotions and behaviors that cause either self or others significant distress. Significant distress can mean the person is unable to meet personal needs on their own, to function or are a danger to themselves or others. Another definition of mental illness is a person's inability to work or to love.

Psychiatric nursing is a area of nursing practice committed to promoting mental health through the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric mental health nursing is a core mental health profession that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological theory and research evidence as its science. Psychiatric mental health nurses provide comprehensive, patient-centered mental health and psychiatric care and outcome evaluation in a variety of setting across the entire continuum of care. Essential components of this specialty practice include wellness and health promotion through identification of mental health issues, prevention of mental health problems and care and treatment of people with psychiatric disorders.