RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary: General Residency Training—the First Forensic Stage
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 324
OP 327
VO 33
IS 3
A1 Merrill Rotter
A1 David Preven
YR 2005
UL http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/324.abstract
AB Training in Forensic Psychiatry, as described by Dr. Pinals, requires the gaining of knowledge, expertise, and confidence as part of a process of professional transformation and identification with a new psychiatric role. Training in General Psychiatry does, however, include placing the resident in situations and roles that are either formally forensic in nature, or at least, forensic-like. We will argue that these experiences from general training can be used by forensic supervisors to help ease the resident into the forensic role by building on the resident's existing expertise and making the forensic environment less foreign.