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Forensic Rehabilitation:
An Advanced Workshop on Work Capacity Evaluation
It is important to note that if you wish to attend this course in 2008, it is strongly suggested that you sign up early; we had to create a waiting list in 2007 for those wishing to attend the course.
Who should attend: This course was designed for alumni of our Functional Capacity Evaluation Certification Program or professionals with five years overall industrial rehabilitation experience.
As a rehabilitation professional matures in his or her career, often the day comes when one decides to move beyond a practice of basic workerscompensation Functional Capacity Evaluations. The world of forensic rehabilitation beckons: collecting data and analyzing and reporting on the functional and quality of life consequences of injury or illness in a court of law. The basic training for this practice is provided by the professional's formal academic preparation and supervised experience. However, the higher level of analytic complexity encountered in forensic practice requires additional tools and skills that this workshop is designed to provide.
Presented by Dr. Leonard Matheson, one of the most experienced occupational rehabilitation professionals in North America, this workshop will introduce the participant to a wide variety of tools used in the normal course of his practice. Dr. Matheson has testified on more than 300 occasions and will be happy to share his experience. Application of these tools to actual forensic cases will assist the participant to develop skills that will be immediately useful. Segments on development of a forensic practice and how to prepare effective testimony will be especially valuable.
The goals of this course include: preparing the participant to use the Functional Assessment Constructs Taxonomy (FACT) to analyze the work-relevant functional limitations and occupational disability at the personal, familial, and vocational levels of complex cases; how to administer and interpret the Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP) Short-Form; and how to select appropriate functional assessments based on information form the FACT and MTAP. Finally, theobjective of the course is to assist the participant to understand what is necessary to prepare for both deposition and trial testimony when using work capacity and rehabilitation tools and data.
Suggested prerequisites include at least five years of overall rehabilitation experience,
with two years in Functional Capacity Evaluation or other aspects of occupational rehabilitation.
Workshop participants should bring a laptop PC with Windows XP and both Microsoft Word and Excel.
A user's manual for the FACT in both printed and electronic versions, as well as
Excel spreadsheets to analyze MTAP short form data are included in the workshop fee.
Workshop Topics and Objectives
- Introduction to Forensic Rehabilitation
- Quality of Life and Occupational Competence
- The Functional Assessment Constructs Taxonomy (FACT)
- FACT as a meta-analytic and data organization tool
- Medical and neuropsychological records, test results, deposition transcripts
- Selection of FACT Constructs
- Structured Interview
- The Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP)
- Selection and hands-on demonstration of pertinent peer-reviewed assessments
- Data aggregation and synthesis
- Grading of relative functional limitations
- Occupational Rehabilitation Planning
- Occupational Consequences: Extension of FACT Constructs
- Personal Role Identification
- Familial Role Identification
- Vocational Role Identification
- Report Preparation - database-driven Automated Mother Report
- Practice Development
- Preparing for Deposition Testimony
- Deposition Testimony
- Preparing for Courtroom Testimony
- Courtroom Testimony
- Introduction to Forensic Rehabilitation
- Quality of Life and Occupational Competence
- The Functional Assessment Constructs Taxonomy (FACT)
- FACT as a meta-analytic and data organization tool
- Medical and neuropsychological records, test results, deposition transcripts
- Selection of FACT Constructs
- Structured Interview
- The Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP)
- Selection and hands-on demonstration of pertinent peer-reviewed assessments
- Data aggregation and synthesis
- Grading of relative functional limitations
- Occupational Rehabilitation Planning
- Occupational Consequences: Extension of FACT Constructs
- Personal Role Identification
- Familial Role Identification
- Vocational Role Identification
- Report Preparation - database-driven Automated Mother Report
- Practice Development
- Preparing for Deposition Testimony
- Deposition Testimony
- Preparing for Courtroom Testimony
- Courtroom Testimony
- Introduction to Forensic Rehabilitation
- Quality of Life and Occupational Competence
- The Functional Assessment Constructs Taxonomy (FACT)
- FACT as a meta-analytic and data organization tool
- Medical and neuropsychological records, test results, deposition transcripts
- Selection of FACT Constructs
- Structured Interview
- The Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP)
- Selection and hands-on demonstration of pertinent peer-reviewed assessments
- Data aggregation and synthesis
- Grading of relative functional limitations
- Occupational Rehabilitation Planning
- Occupational Consequences: Extension of FACT Constructs
- Personal Role Identification
- Familial Role Identification
- Vocational Role Identification
- Report Preparation - database-driven Automated Mother Report
- Practice Development
- Preparing for Deposition Testimony
- Deposition Testimony
- Preparing for Courtroom Testimony
- Courtroom Testimony
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Leonard N. Matheson, PhD, CVE
HOURS
14 Contact Hours
TUITION
$475
P.O. Box 492 - Keene, New Hampshire USA 03431
TOLL-FREE: 1-800-443-7690 - INT'L: 603-358-6525 - FAX: 603-358-0116
