Forensic Psychiatrist
Psychiatry & Neurology · Forensic Psychiatry · taxonomy 2084F0202X
What this licence covers
Psychiatrists are medical doctors (MD or DO) who completed a psychiatry residency. They are the group that can prescribe and manage psychiatric medication, and many practise in coordination with a separate therapist rather than providing weekly therapy themselves.
Psychiatric evaluation in legal contexts, such as competency and court reports.
The formal definition
Forensic Psychiatry is a subspecialty with psychiatric focus on interrelationships with civil, criminal and administrative law, evaluation and specialized treatment of individuals involved with the legal system, incarcerated in jails, prisons, and forensic psychiatry hospitals.
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set. This is the definition used for billing and registration, which is why it reads the way it does.
Many also hold another licence
different training route, same personThese are registrations where the same person also holds a licence of a genuinely different kind — not the same qualification recorded twice. It is worth knowing because it widens what someone can work with: a counsellor who is also a social worker brings a different second toolkit than one who is also a behaviour analyst.
Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.
By state
Related licence types
also under Psychiatry & Neurology| Licence type | Registered |
|---|---|
| Psychiatrist | 59,853 |
| Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist | 7,899 |
| Geriatric Psychiatrist | 817 |
| Addiction Psychiatrist | 745 |
| Psychosomatic Medicine Psychiatrist | 358 |
| Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Physician | 357 |