DR. TERRY O'HARA - CV
2004
Private Practice
145 44th Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201
• Conduct Psychological evaluations for over fifteen counties in Pennsylvania (Dependency, Criminal and Delinquency, and Child Custody Divisions).
• Conduct Violence Risk Assessments, evaluations assessing Emotional Abuse, Parenting Fitness and Capacity evaluations, Independent Medical Evaluations, Personal Injury Evaluations, BHRS, and Decertification Evaluations.
• Have testified as an expert witness approximately 800 times and have conducted over 8,000 forensic evaluations.
• See private practice patients for evaluations and therapy. Patients range from children and adolescents to adults. Part of caseload has consisted of Federal Probation (primarily sexual offenders) patients as well.
2015
Consulting Psychologist – Glade Run Lutheran Services
2014-
Provide consultation regarding bullying, cyberbullying, and microagression. Conduct various media interviews, including with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Essential Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Tribune.
2001-2005
Bellefield Towers
100 N. Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Conducted hundreds of diagnostic psychiatric evaluations, intakes, and individual, family, and group treatment for culturally, diagnostically, and socioeconomically diverse populations, as well as consultations with schools. Also, supervised Master’s level graduate students.
2000-2001
311 South Craig Street, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
1998-1999
1739 N. High Street, Columbus, OH, 43210-1392
Worked with diverse undergraduates and graduate students in short term and long term individual/group (co-led eating disorders, depression, stress and anxiety, and graduate student support group) treatment; provided workshops and presentations, outreach, consultation, crisis intervention; performed intake assessment; supervised doctoral graduate practicum students; received intensive individual and group supervision.
1998-1999
1739 N. High Street, Columbus, OH, 43210-1392
Worked with diverse undergraduates and graduate students in short term and long term individual/group (co-led eating disorders, depression, stress and anxiety, and graduate student support group) treatment; provided workshops and presentations, outreach, consultation, crisis intervention; performed intake assessment; supervised doctoral graduate practicum students; received intensive individual and group supervision.
1996-1998
1994-1996
232 First Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
Two year forensic practicum placement; provided evaluation and individual and group treatment to a population widely diverse in age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, and who typically presented with dual diagnoses.
1992
Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, CA
Supervised experience on sex offender, autistic, adolescent, and schizophrenic units.
1993-1999
Dissertation Topic: Bullying in Children (The Gestural Bully)
M.A., Psychology (degree obtained in August, 1994), Duquesne University
Graduate School GPA: 3.75
Graduate work consisted of training in:
Assessment and Diagnostics: Rorschach (Exner), TAT, DAP, Bender-Gestalt
MMPI, MMPI-2, WAIS-R, and WISC-R
Research: Rigorous and creative qualitative methodologies
Psychotherapy: Individual, group, child, and family modalities of treatment;
Training in psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, CBT, Rogerian, NLP/Eriksonian,
Developmental and existential approaches
Foundations of Psychology: Philosophical and psychological foundations of psychological theory, as well as personality theorists such as Freud, Lacan, Jung, Fairbairn, Klein, and May
Developmental/Social Psychology: Developmental and social theorists, emphasizing phenomenological, interpersonal, and postmodern tenets
Additional Courses: Courses in Ethics, Statistics, Physiology, Language, and Philosophy
Additional Training: Supervised supervision of doctoral students
1989-1993
B.A., Psychology,
Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH
Included Fall semester of junior year at University College Dublin, Ireland
Undergraduate GPA: 3.6
1994-1995
Taught two introductory psychology courses at Duquesne University, as Adjunct Faculty member.
1997
Taught an advanced placement psychology course at Vincentian Prep School,
Pittsburgh, PA.
1994-2017
Dr. O’Hara has made dozens of presentations regarding mental health issues and forensic concerns related to children, adolescents, and families.
In May of 2017, Dr. O’Hara was featured on the NBC program, Comcast Newsmakers, to speak about bullying and social media.
On 8-26-16, Dr. O’Hara was inteviewed by the Tribune Review regarding bullying and social media.
Dr. O’Hara was featured on Essential Pittsburgh on 5-26-16 to discuss bullying, cyberbullying, and micro-aggression.
In January of 2016, Dr. O’Hara was interviewed by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on bullying.
In April of 2016, Dr. O’Hara presented on Interviewing Children in Forensic Contexts at the national conference of the National Defenders Investigators Association.
In March of 2015, Dr. O’Hara presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association in Monroeville, PA, on Forensic Psychology.
1996-
Have conducted extensive qualitative research investigating conduct disordered children who repeatedly bully and humiliate particular others in a given relation of substantial power difference. Most of this research was included in my dissertation, noted above. Also, am conducting research on the usefulness of attachment in the Family Court context.
O’Hara, T. (Jan. 6, 2016). Kids warned to pause, then post when dealing with social media. Interview in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
O’Hara, T. (March, 2017). Reflections on Bullying. The Pennsylvania Psychologist.
• Supervised Ph.D. candidates at Duquesne University
• Supervised Ph.D. candidates at The Ohio State University
• Supervised BSC and MT clinicians while at Interim Health Care
• Supervised clinicians while at Center for Children and Families
• Supervised licensed clinicians at Allegheny Psychological Services
• Supervise licensed clinicians at Glade Run Lutheran Services