Forensic Rehabilitation Counseling

Program Overview

The graduate certificate in Forensic Rehabiliation Counseling provides insight to how forensic experts function within the legal system - upholding ethical standards through courtroom testimony and understanding the fiscal importance of forensic issues as they relate to personal injury, medical malpractice, life care planning, marital dissolution, product liability, or catastrophic injury.

Curriculum is taught with a collaborative multidisciplinary approach by faculty of the GW Law School as well as the 7th ranked Rehabilitation Counseling program in the country ensuring world-class professional development and an unmatched breadth and depth of subject matter expertise.

This 12-credit hour certificate program was developed with the busy professional in mind providing coursework in an online format that can be self-paced.

Coursework Includes:

• Foundations of Forensic Rehabilitation Counseling I
• Foundations of Forensic Rehabilitation Counseling II
• Law and the Rehabilitation Consultant (taught by GW Law faculty)
• Disability and Case Management

Counselors seeking additional education required for certification also benefit from this program as courses apply to the coursework required by state licensing boards to obtain counseling licensure.
(Each state has its own specific requirements to obtain an LPC or LCPC.)

To Apply

For more informataion about admissions requirements, deadlines, and guidelines, please go to Admissions Requirements.

Meet our Faculty

Dr. Scott Beveridge
Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling & Human Development
University Liaison, Academy of Forensic Rehabilitation Counseling
202-994-2473
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