Joye Anestis

Joye Anestis, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, & Policy at the Rutgers University School of Public Health. A licensed clinical psychologist, she is also a member of the training committee for the Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare pre-doctoral psychology internship program (APA-accredited), where she provides therapy and assessment supervision and training for psychology residents. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, Dr. Anestis was an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she served as Director of Clinical Training and Externship Coordinator for the clinical psychology PhD program and received a Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professorship. Her research expertise includes psychological assessment, psychopathy and other externalizing traits and behaviors, access to and outcomes of mental health interventions, and suicide risk assessment and prevention. Much of her assessment research has focused on the MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3, and she has been the recipient of four grants from the University of Minnesota Press to support MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3 research projects. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment, a Consulting Editor for Psychological Assessment, and as a member of the advisory board for the University of Minnesota Press Test Division (the MMPI publisher).