Dr. Benjamin Kai pan Woo M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1830 Flower St Rm 3057 Department Of Psychi Bakersfield CA, 93305About
Dr. Benjamin Woo is a psychiatrist practicing in Bakersfield, CA. Dr. Woo is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Woo diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Woo may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Woo treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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- Utilization patterns of psychiatric emergency services by elderly patients.
- Improving the quality of suicide risk assessments in the psychiatric emergency setting: physician documentation of process indicators.
- Substance misuse among older patients in psychiatric emergency service.
- How often do Chinese Americans stay on treatment after transitioning from outpatient mental health to primary care setting?
- The impact of unemployment on utilization of psychiatric emergency services.
- Unrecognized medical disorders among older patients in psychiatric emergency service.
- What role does ethnicity play in psychiatric emergency service?
- Are there race/ethnicity differences in disposition of older patients in psychiatric emergency service?
- Using a Chinese radio station to disseminate dementia knowledge to Chinese Americans.
- Increasing the mental health literacy of Chinese Americans.
- Older adults are less accurate than younger adults at identifying cardiovascular disease as a cause of dementia in the Chinese American community.
- Rainbow beneath the sky: mental health help for Chinese Americans.
- Dementia knowledge and information seeking of Chinese Americans.
- Psychosis education on a monthly Chinese newspaper to target Chinese American immigrants.
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