Daniel L Davis, Ph.D.

Forensic Psychologist With Specialization In Children and Adolescents

Tennenbaum And Associates

5151 Reed Road

Suite A 211

Columbus Ohio 43220

Telephone:    614.451.6517

Facsimile: 614.451.5387

Email:    ddavis2@columbus.rr.com

Daniel L Davis, Ph.D. is a Psychologist in practice with David J. Tennenbaum and Associates in Columbus Ohio.  His practice includes assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents, a general practice of psychology with adults, marriage and family counseling and forensic psychology.

He is the author of “The Aggressive Adolescent: Clinical and Forensic Issues” published by the Haworth Press. He is the co-author, with Yossif Ben-Porath, of “An MMPI A Casebook” published by The University of Minnesota Press. His latest book, “Your Angry Child: A Guide For Parents” will be published this spring by the Haworth Press and his next book, “Leavings: Essays of Forensic Practice” will later follow. He has authored a number of professional articles in peer-reviewed journals. He lectures and provides workshops in both the United States and in Canada. In the United States, he is affiliated with Medical Education Services (www.meds-pdn.com) and in Canada, his exclusive agent is the Professional Training Group (www.ptg.ca). He is a Fellow of The American College of Forensic Psychology. He has received numerous awards and honors.

He has served as the Clinical Director of the Buckeye 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 Columbus 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. 

He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine of The Ohio State University. He has also held an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Psychology of Otterbein College.

He earned a doctorate in Counseling from the Ohio state University in 1980. He earned a Masters Degree from Kent State University and his Bachelor's Degree from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio.  

He lives in Columbus Ohio with his canine companion, co-editor and episodic therapeutic consultant CJ. His son, Josh, is pursing graduate studies in Psychology in Chicago.

Books By Dr. Davis

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Maximize your effectiveness with troubled kids!

The Aggressive Adolescent: Clinical and Forensic Issues provides mental health professionals with a comprehensive text that covers both theoretical and practical applied knowledge of aggressive youth in a specific, problem-focused way. Through case histories and practical treatment interventions, this unique book will give you information to help you provide improved services to adolescents who have experienced neglect, physical abuse, and/or sexual abuse. The Aggressive Adolescent offers you a new model for practical and functional assessment, treatment, planning, and service delivery for aggressive youths. The book also explores legal and forensic issues that frequently accompany these cases to bring you insight into the whole picture surrounding problem adolescents.

Compelling and comprehensive, The Aggressive Adolescent shows you how some behaviors once attributed to mental illness are now seen as criminal, and how this view is pushing mentally ill youths into the criminal justice system. This vital guide will help you, as a mental health professional, to bolster your understanding of forensic mental health issues and effectively assist in criminal justice settings.

The Aggressive Adolescent will help you become a better, more connected youth care worker. You will learn:
  • to see institutionalized adolescents as whole people rather than focusing on a single characteristic such as violent behavior
  • to understand that these adolescents share common needs, desires, and aspirations with their therapists, and that you can use these commonalities to give you a connection that will facilitate their therapy
  • to see that traditional methods of intervention are often inappropriate or ineffective for aggressive adolescents
  • to address issues of risk assessment, malpractice, and liability, to help ensure fiscal and legal accountability

    The Aggressive Adolescent presents strategies for dealing with youths who are resistant to entering into treatment so that you can help them deal with their problems. This essential book will assist you in developing and implementing effective systems of care for aggressive adolescents in order to give them the help and support they need.
 
Reviews:
“RECOMMENDED. . . . Easy to read, full of illustrative case stories with treatment interventions. . . . Contains valuable information for professionals working with aggressive adolescents.”

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

Your Angry Child: A Guide For Parents

Coming Soon From The Haworth Press

 

About The Book:
Discover an important source of practical and understandable advice for parents of children with anger management issues!

Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents was created to provide parents of angry children and teenagers with an up-to-date understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of anger problems. You’ll find specific, focused ways of helping angry children and managing the difficulties that anger causes—some brand new, some time-tested. Written by a psychologist with over 30 years of experience treating troubled and severely behaviorally disordered youth and 20 years experience as a forensic psychologist, this book provides practical and understandable advice that parents can make use of immediately.

This insightful book presents up-to-date case histories, current research, and practical, down-to-earth techniques that can help parents of children and adolescents with anger problems. Extraordinarily useful for parents, this book is also an ideal adjunct to counseling and psychotherapy and an essential reference for teachers, pediatricians and family practice physicians, students of psychology, corrections officers, and others who work with angry/violent youth. The first chapters of Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents provide a thoughtful introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. Next, the book focuses specifically on practical aspects of anger management, including:
  • attachment issues
  • antisocial behavior
  • anger’s impact on temperament, development, moral reasoning, and the thinking process in general
  • indicators of anger problems, such as temper tantrums, cruelty to animals, and fire setting
  • the effect of the media on violent tendencies in children
  • ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and other conduct disorders
  • mood disorders, including suicidal feelings and depression
  • links between anger and substance abuse
  • problem solving
  • the power of strong values and positive role models for angry youth
  • and much more!
With chapters specifically devoted to the anger problems of children and pre-teenagers as well as advice directed toward parents of angry adolescents, Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents is an ideal resource for helping professionals and the parents who come to them in varying degrees of desperation. Make this vital book a part of your therapeutic arsenal today!

Case Studies for Interpreting the MMPI-A

 

Yossef S. Ben-Porath and Daniel L. Davis

An instrumental resource for professionals and students working with adolescents.

A landmark for MMPI instruments, this volume will serve as a vital contribution to the expanding base of successful MMPI-A applications. The authors' comprehensive approach to each of the sixteen clinically diverse cases constitutes an interpretive model providing detailed information on the background of each case, profile validity, current level of adjustment, symptoms and traits, diagnostic and treatment recommendations, and outcome. Particular emphasis is placed on the new adolescent-specific scales developed to assess family and school problems, low self-esteem, and substance abuse.

Including background information on the development of the MMPI-A, the book is a useful resource for those new to the MMPI-A as well as an essential reference for those who have experience in MMPI interpretation with adolescents.

 

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