ABOUT
Anthony M. Tarescavage, PhD
Education
Dr. Tarescavage is the owner-operator of Cleveland Psychological Testing. He is also an Associate Professor of Psychology at John Carroll University. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 2015 with a concentration in psychological testing and assessment. While a student at Kent State University, Dr. Tarescavage received the Lillian Friedman Fellowship for being the university’s outstanding graduate student in the area of mental health. He also received the Award for Outstanding Student Research in the Field of Police and Public Safety Psychology from Division 18 of the American Psychological Association.
Practice Areas
Dr. Tarescavage received doctoral training to become a clinical and forensic psychologist. During his training he conducted a variety of clinical and forensic assessments. These included sanity, criminal competency, mitigation of penalty, substance use, personality disorders, mental health, and violence risk assessment. He also conduct ADHD testing for college students at Kent State University. After graduating with his PhD from Kent State University, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses related to statistics, psychological assessment, and forensic psychology. He also supervised the clinical assessments of all graduate students conducting assessments in the Kent State Clinical Psychology Clinic.
Dr. Tarescavage was licensed to practice psychology independently in Ohio in 2016. Since his licensure, he has consulted as a forensic psychologist for four different agencies. These agencies specialized in different types of forensic assessments and psychological testing, including disability examinations, violence risk assessment, personnel screenings, fitness for duty evaluations, guardianship evaluations, competency to stand trial evaluations, NGRI evaluations, mental health evaluations, cognitive screenings, among many others.
Research
Dr. Tarescavage’s research focus includes the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) in psychological testing in criminal forensic settings, civil forensic settings, personnel screenings, and in mental health evaluations. He is co-author of the upcoming Oxford University Press book entitled Using the MMPI-3 in Forensic Assessments. In addition to being a preeminent expert on the MMPI instruments, he is also one of the most widely published researchers in the country in the area of pre-hire screenings of public safety officers and routinely contributes research to psychological assessment journals. He also frequently gives American Psychological Association-approved trainings on assessment to other psychologists. As can be seen below, he was also a primary consultant on the development of the MMPI-3. The MMPI is the second most widely used test in psychology.
