Dr. Robert G. Kaplan

Dr. Robert G. Kaplan, President of Kaplan Consulting & Counseling, Inc., is a psychologist who specializes in trauma, psychological disability evaluation, workplace violence, sexual harassment, as well as substance abuse prevention. He is an experienced crisis manager who has successfully coordinated the resolution of several hundred crises involving suicidal, homicidal, intoxicated and psychotic individuals, without the loss of a single life or adverse claims. He also advises employers on the development of policies and prevention strategies in the area of forensic psychology.

As a Board Certified Forensic Examiner of the American College of Forensic Examiners and as a Diplomat in Psychological Disability Evaluation of the American Board of Psychological Specialties, Dr. Kaplan serves as an expert witness on behalf of employers and individuals in criminal and civil matters. He has been an expert witness in murder cases for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office (Cleveland, OH), and a consultant to the Erie County Prosecutor's Office (Buffalo, NY). He also serves as a mediator for the City of Lakewood Prosecutor's Office. He has worked as a consultant for the Social Security Administration, the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation.
As an expert in traumatic stress, Dr. Kaplan developed a program that is being used by virtually every major insurance carrier that trains claim representatives and adjusters for their work with victims of catastrophic events.

Mr. Kaplan developed a protocol for Critical Incident Stress Debriefing that is widely used by employers to help employees who are victims of criminal or catastrophic workplace events such as bank robberies. He is certified in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and was a founding member of the Cuyahoga County Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Organization for emergency responders (i.e., police, fire, EMS). Dr. Kaplan also serves as a Vice Chair for the Cleveland Chapter American Red Cross Mental Health Disaster Team. Additionally, he served as a consultant to several county disaster agencies, advising them on the development of mental health response teams to disaster as well as on training mental health professionals for disaster work. Dr. Kaplan regularly speaks at meetings of contingency planners on the topic of managing employees during and after workplace disasters. He has taught stress management to many businesses across the United States.

In his private practice, Dr. Kaplan specializes in psychological assessment, depression, and traumatic stress reactions for airline disaster survivors, crime and accident victims, combat veterans, and emergency responders. He has presented his work on workplace violence to a number of organizations, including the Ohio State Bar Association, Institute of Business Law, and the Midwest Labor Law Conference. He also presented his work on chemical dependency to the Cuyahoga County Bar Association and the Ohio Drug Studies Institute. He has taught behavior modification to medical personnel at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Additionally, he developed and taught programs in prevention of violence, sexual harassment, and substance abuse in the workplace, and in diversity integration as well. His work on workplace violence prevention was published in the '97 Best of the Midwest Labor Law Conference. In addition to a chapter in Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research and Practice, Dr. Kaplan has often done interviews on psychological topics for local and national TV, radio, and print media such as the Wall Street Journal and Inside Business.

Dr. Kaplan frequently speaks before various community organizations and has served on the advisory boards of the Adam Walsh Foundation for Missing Children, and the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Kaplan is a former President and Treasurer of the Cleveland Psychological Association, for which he also headed its Public Relations Committee. He also served as Chief of the Cleveland Psychological Association Information and Referral Service and the Speaker's Bureau. Dr. Kaplan further served on the program committee for the Employee Assistance Professionals Association. His professional memberships also include the American Psychological Association and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Dr. Kaplan received his Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Cum Laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Kaplan celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary in 2003 with his wife, Eileen Korey, a former TV medical reporter and current public relations professional. Their two children, Rachel and Benjamin, are now attending college.