Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals and psychiatric wards (psych wards) when they are a sub-unit of a regular hospital, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
1 of, pertaining to, or uttered with the voice:the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism. 2  Music and Dancerendered by or intended for singing:vocal music. 3  having a voice:A dog is a vocal, but not a verbal, being.
Verbal means 'the use of words'. Thus, vocal sounds that are not words, such as a grunt, or singing a wordless note, are nonverbal. Sign languages and writing are understood as verbal communication, as both make use of words â although like speech, paralinguistic elements do occur alongside nonverbal messages.