What are the requirments to become a child psychiatrist or a child psychologist in California?

Answer 1

The guy who criticized your grammar doesn't know what he's saying. There's nothing wrong with your question except the spelling of "requirements." That's not grammar.

Anyway, a psychiatrist is an MD with a specialty. Takes medical school and a residency. A psychologist is a Ph.D. Takes long years of schooling, clinical practice and writing a doctoral thesis.

Both of these have further specialties regarding children, but that is primarily in the courses you select while in school, and in the case of the MD, taking your residency in child psychiatry. You are talking long, long years of schooling and clinical practice under the supervision of a mentor in both cases.

Before you embark on either career, though, consider exactly what is involved in either profession. My Steve was ruined by being sent to child therapists when he was young, not because there was anything wrong with him except an undiagnosed neurological dysfunction (called disautonomia, if I have the spelling right), and being smarter than was called for in a public school with mediocre union teachers.

By sending him to a shrink, his mother gave him the impression there was something wrong with him, rather than with the school he attended. He never really got over it. He avoided therapists like the plague as an adult, and so could not get the help he needed when the consequences of being unfit for the job market overwhelmed him. He committed suicide last December.

Answer 2

If your asking on here you really aint clever enough !

Answer 3

Good grammar would help