Daniel Davis, PhD, ABPP (Forensic)

Daniel L Davis, Ph.D. ABPP (Forensic) is a Board-Certified Forensic Psychologist in private practice in Columbus Ohio. His practice includes assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral problems in older children, adolescents and adults, marriage and family counseling and forensic psychology. He is licensed in the state of Ohio as a psychologist and holds a Certificate of Professional Qualification from the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards. He retired as a Senior Forensic Psychologist with the Netcare Forensic Center. Dr. Davis is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology in Forensic Psychology. He has over 43 years of practice in forensic psychology. He is the author of two books, co-author of two others and three book chapters. Dr. Davis is the co-author, with Yossef S. Ben-Porath PhD, ABPP of the original Case Studies for Interpreting the MMPI-A published by the University of Minnesota Press, as well as the more recent Case Studies for Interpreting the MMPI A RF published in 2022. He has also authored “Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents as well as The Aggressive Adolescent: Clinical and Forensic Issues. He is the author of Competency to Stand Trial in Intersections of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, published by ACFP Press. He has co-authored with Terry Kukor PhD, ABPP, a chapter on Adjudicative Competence in Juveniles in a The Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology published by Springer Press. His most recent chapter, also co-authored with Dr. Kukor, is Conceptual Issues in the Ethics of Animal Maltreatment Assessment in Practice and Ethics in Forensic Animal Maltreatment Evaluations, edited by Thomas Grisso is published by Oxford University Press. He has authored a number of professional articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has lectured and provided workshops in both the United States and in Canada. He has received numerous awards and honors and has testified on behalf of the Ohio Psychological Association before the Ohio General Assembly on matters pertaining to psychological services and served on various statewide, national and international committees addressing issues of mental health, youth and juvenile corrections and was a co-founder of the National Forum on Residential Treatment of Sexually Traumatized Youth. He has served as the Clinical Director of the Buckeye Ranch and as the Supervising Psychologist of the Timothy B. Moritz Forensic Unit of the Ohio Department of Mental Health. He also served as the Clinical Director of the Central Ohio Cluster of Mental Health Services of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. He has also held consulting positions with the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the Ohio Department of Mental Health, The Ohio Department of Youth Services, New York State Department of Mental Health, Central State Hospital in Louisville Kentucky, Netcare Forensic Psychiatry, Southeast Mental Health Center and the Central Ohio Mental Health Center. While a junior in College, he founded Concord Counseling Service, in Westerville Ohio.