Recent trends in forensic psychiatry training

PURPOSE OF REVIEWThis review focuses on recent international trends in training in forensic psychiatry, in the areas of subspecialty training in forensic psychiatry and specialty training in psychiatry. RECENT FINDINGSThe past few years have seen a growing acceptance of the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry in many countries. Increasingly, training programs and subspecialty certification in forensic psychiatry are available in the US. The UK, Canada, Israel, and some continental countries have provided increasing recognition of the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry, and, in the UK in particular, the field of forensic psychotherapy has grown up within the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. In Australia and New Zealand, there has been the beginning of a movement to increase the importance of training in forensic psychiatry. Child and adolescent forensic psychiatry is beginning to be recognized as a mixed subspecialty in several countries. Specialty training in psychiatry in most countries reviewed now includes some exposure to didactic and clinical forensic psychiatry. SUMMARYThis review highlights the major international trends in the emergence of the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry.