Dr. Robert Smith Mckelvey MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239About
Dr. Robert Mckelvey practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Portland, OR. Dr. Mckelvey evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Mckelvey seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Sex knowledge and sexual attitudes among medical and nursing students.
- Vietnamese parental perceptions of child and adolescent mental illness.
- Intentions to use alcohol among fifth and sixth graders: the roles of social and stress/coping motives.
- Fetal growth and subsequent mental health problems in children aged 4 to 13 years.
- Training general practitioners to recognise and respond to psychological distress and suicidal ideation in young people.
- The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Vietnamese children and adolescents.
- Psychosis in a teenager.
- Bringing good things to life.
- The coming crisis in funding child psychiatry training.
- A physician's guide through the child and adolescent mental health system.
- A continuum of mental health care for children and adolescents.
- A piece of my mind. Remembered pain.
- Development of a risk profile for intentions to use alcohol among fifth and sixth graders.
- A pilot study of abuse among Vietnamese Amerasians.
- Unaccompanied status as a risk factor in Vietnamese Amerasians.
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