Dr. Hovey has taught a wide variety of undergraduate college courses including Abnormal Psychology, Childhood Psychopathology, Introductory Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Research Methods, Community Outreach Practica, and a First-Year Orientation course for Psychology Majors. On the graduate level, he has taught Psychopathology, Clinical Interviewing, Clinical Supervision, Ethics, and a Teaching Seminar.
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In addition to group classes, Dr. Hovey has provided extensive individual instruction. For example, he has served as chair of 10 dissertation committees, 31 master's theses committees, and 6 undergraduate honor's theses. Overall he has served on over six dozen dissertation and theses committees.

While at The University of Toledo, six of Dr. Hovey's graduate students were awarded the prestigious University Fellowship by the University of Toledo's Graduate School and one of his students won the American Psychological Association's (APA) Award for Distinguished Graduate Students in Professional Psychology. Post-graduation, students who worked with Dr. Hovey consistently have obtained internships, postdoctoral fellowships, APA and NIH fellowships, and faculty positions at quality institutions including the Yale University School of Medicine, the University of San Diego School of Medicine, the University of Rochester Medical Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and the Ohio State University Medical Center.

Dr. Hovey is currently chairing the master's theses of Rebecca Gonzales and Veronica Ramirez. Ms. Gonzalez is studying the determinants and obstacles associated with Latino/a college students' willingness to seek mental health treatment. Ms. Ramirez is examining the influence of various intrinsic coping styles associated with COVID-19 mental health difficulties.