Meet ThNK PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING EXPERTS
Psychological Testing Consultation
Matters related to psychological testing often arise in civil and criminal litigation. Understanding the results of such testing, as well as the strengths and limitations of it, may be useful in understanding a case. ThNK Consultants can utilize experienced psychological experts for consultation or expert opinions regarding psychological testing administration, scoring, and interpretation. These experts can be used in concert with the forensic psychiatry team or independently as psychological testing consultants.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), University of Haifa, Israel, 1984
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1989
CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES
Board Certification in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology
Board Certification by the American Board of Assessment Psychology
Licensed Psychologist, State of Ohio
ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, 2024-present
Director, MMPI Workshops and Symposium, Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Press, Department of Psychology, Kent State University, 2002-present
Consultant, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN
Yossef S. Ben-Porath, Ph.D.
Dr. Ben-Porath is the lead psychological testing consultant at ThNK Consultants. He is board certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (APBB-Clinical). Dr. Ben-Porath is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, where he served on the faculty for 34 years. He is the Director of the MMPI Workshops and Symposium series sponsored by the MMPI Publisher, University of Minnesota Press. He also serves as a consultant to the University of Minnesota Press.
Dr. Ben-Porath has had extensive experience as a national leader in psychological testing and assessment. He has been involved in MMPI research for the past 38 years. His research focuses on psychological testing and assessment with a particular emphasis on the MMPI instruments. He has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers and numerous books and book chapters on this subject matter.
Dr. Ben-Porath is a co-developer of the MMPI-3, MMPI-2-RF, MMPI-2, MMPI-A-RF, and MMPI-A and co-author of numerous test manuals, books, book chapters, and articles on the MMPI instruments. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journals Psychological Assessment and Assessment, on the editorial board of several psychology journals, and as a member of APA’s Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment. He has received several awards including the Bruno Klopfer Award for Career Contributions to the Field of Personality Assessment by the Society for Personality Assessment and the Distinguished Assessment Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 12: Section IX – Assessment Psychology).
Dr. Ben-Porath’s clinical practice involves consultation to agencies that screen candidates for public safety positions and provision of consultation and expert witness services in medical-legal/forensic cases, with an emphasis on uses and misuses of psychological tests in forensic assessments.
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Dr. Ben-Porath is an active member of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 5, 12, 18, and 41), the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (Police Psychological Services Section), the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and the Society for Personality Assessment (Fellow). He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Haifa and completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota.