Practical Forensic Education Leading To Board Certification Now Available For Master's Level Mental Health Clinicians
Dr. Grosso introduces continuing education for master level mental health clinicians leading to board certification as forensic experts. This program will develop a wide range of forensic courses authored by leading experts at the master's level.
(PRWEB) July 24, 2005
SANTA BARBARA, CA (PRWEB) July, 2005 — The president of FGrosso. com, a leading publisher of practice resources and provider of continuing education for mental health clinicians, Federico C. Grosso, DDS, PhD, MFT, BCFE announced that the company will introduce a series of online and self-study courses dedicated exclusively to the practical applications of forensic topics and themes faced by master's level clinicians.
These courses satisfy the forensic certification process of several certification boards. Due to the continuing request by clinicians for additional courses addressing the systematic development of clinical abilities, Dr. Grosso and other similarly trained colleagues chose to meet the need of a forensic training tract based on their clinical training, knowledge, and experience.
These courses will meet the need of any master's level clinician who wishes to expand his or her scope of competence in this arena, obtain board certification as a forensic expert, and eventually interact with attorneys in the forensic realm.
Dr. Grosso's continuing experience as a forensic expert in malpractice cases led to the concept of this educational tract. These cases have involved a myriad of cases ranging from documenting and testifying in personal injury cases to addressing master level issues in criminal cases.
In a recent presentation, Dr. Grosso commented that the successful forensic expert witness allows him/herself to consider all possibilities, rather than attempting to focus on the strongest probability. The forensic courses presented by FGrosso. com will continuously stress this point to clinicians: avoid this major clinical error. Instead, these courses will help clinicians develop the ability to obtain all necessary information, consider all possible options, and only then will the clinician determine the most reasonable approach to take supported by the available evidence.
These courses are designed exclusively for the Master's level mental health clinician. In many jurisdictions, Licensed PhD forensic experts tend to be the sole provider of these services to the mental health community. Dr. Grosso has found that by having the appropriate training in forensics, being board certified as a forensic expert witness, applying one's services only within the scope of practice permitted by law, and educating attorneys regarding the services we can provide, Master's level clinicians can develop a successful forensic practice. These courses attempt to strengthen the educational experience. The first course will be available from http://www. fgrosso. com (http://www. fgrosso. com) > Interactive Online Continuing Education and >Self-Study Courses.
Dr. Grosso's earlier publications on psychotherapy standards of care have become benchmark guided to defending or litigating malpractice actions involving the above mental health clinicians. Attorneys find that the concepts presented in these publications are easily applicable to all mental health clinicians, whether licensed or unlicensed, and that these concepts, as presented in these publications, are easily understood by juries. Many universities continue to use these publications in their classes to help students develop a safe structure of documenting both mental health records and progress notes to avoid potential malpractice and administrative actions. These publications are available at http://www. fgrosso. com (http://www. fgrosso. com) >> Publications.
Background on FGrosso. com:
FGrosso. com provides mental health clinicians with practical and easy-to-use clinical resources including practice protection workbooks, online and self-study continuing education, software, consultation as an expert witness, lectures, and academic publications. Dr. Grosso also provides expert witness services in malpractice actions involving marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, certified addictions treatment specialists, and health care clinicians accused of child abuse in the workplace. He also lectures for and consults with mental health organizations. He is an official lecturer on law and ethics and other subjects for the California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
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