About Dr. Steve Tutty

Research Training Applied to Forensic Questions

Dr. Steve Tutty is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in child, forensic and neuropsychology.

He has more than 30 years of direct clinical and forensic practice and more than 20 years of teaching, research and publishing in clinical psychology across multiple US states. His evaluation work spans more than 2,300 children and adolescents with complex neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, ADHD and twice-exceptional (2E) profiles, and more than 535 adults involved in personal injury litigation, often after traumatic brain injury.

Before evaluation work, he spent a decade counseling children, mostly with ADHD and autism, and adults with depression.

Published Research

As a National Health Scholar and Scientific-Practitioner, Dr. Tutty has contributed to randomized clinical trials: on ADHD with pediatrician Harlan Gephart, MD, and on depression and telephone-based psychotherapy with principal investigator Greg Simon, MD, work that began in 2000 and was early in the telehealth movement. Designing and reporting trials teaches the same discipline a forensic review demands: whether the method fits the question and whether the conclusions go beyond the data.

• Telephone psychotherapy and telephone care management for primary care patients starting antidepressant treatment: a randomized controlled trialSimon GE, Ludman EJ, Tutty S, Operskalski B, Von Korff M. JAMA. 2004;292(8):935–942.
• Enhancing behavioral and social skill functioning in children newly diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in a pediatric settingTutty S, Gephart H, Wurzbacher K. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2003;24(1):51–57.
• A randomized trial of telephone psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for depression: continuation and durability of effectsLudman EJ, Simon GE, Tutty S, Von Korff M. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2007;75(2):257–266.
• Feasibility and acceptability of a telephone psychotherapy program for depressed adults treated in primary careTutty S, Ludman EJ, Simon G. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2005;27(6):400–410.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral teletherapy in depressed adultsTutty S, Spangler DL, Poppleton LE, Ludman EJ, Simon GE. Behavior Therapy. 2010;41(2):229–236.

Titles link to the abstracts on PubMed.

The Team

Katreace Moore, MS-P, MSP-MAC, SUDP provides supervised psychometric testing for children and young adults. Her background includes psychological testing in inpatient and outpatient settings and evidence-based competency restoration curricula such as Illness Management and Recovery (IMR).

Aspyre Psychology

Forensic services are provided through Aspyre Psychology, Dr. Tutty's practice at 353 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. With East Coast roots and adult children who moved to New York for college, he now calls the city home, and spends his free time hiking along the Hudson and in the Catskills.