Dr. Hovey has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate college courses. Undergraduate courses taught include Abnormal Psychology, Childhood Psychopathology, Introductory Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Stress Management, 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 Teaching Seminars.
Dr. Hovey has also provided extensive instruction outside the classroom. For example, he has served as chair of 10 dissertation committees, 43 master's theses committees, and 6 undergraduate honor's theses. Overall he has served on over 100 dissertation and theses committees.

In addition, during Fall and Spring semesters, Dr. Hovey provides mentorship in behavioral health methods to STEM Practicum students from the South Texas ISD Science Academy, the premier high school in South Texas.

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 Dr. Hovey has mentored have consistently 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.
Recently, Dr. Hovey chaired the master's theses of Monica Ochoa who examined the moderating influence that social comparison has on cyberbullying victimization in the prediction of suicide behavior; Finley Sims, who examined gender differences in the associations between anxiety sensitivity, academic anxiety, and sports anxiety in NCAA athletes; Nadeen Salhadar, who explored mediating influences on the relationship between obesity and suicide behavior in Latina youth; Lorena Houghton, who examined how body image, body esteem, and body shame lead to cyberbullying susceptibility which, in turn, influences social anxiety and suicide behavior in young Latina adults; Daniela Chavez, who examined the bilingual measurement of coping styles in acculturating Latino/a adults; Rebecca Gonzalez, who examined mental health stigma and attitudes towards mental health treatment in Latino men; and Veronica Ramirez, who examined how adherence to traditional cultural values influences the experience of anxiety in young Latina women.
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