Curriculum Vitae

Experience: Clinical Academic Research Speaking Engagements Teaching

Education Publications Organizations References

Publications (top)

Monthly columnist for Family Magazine as Ask the Developmental Doctor: Dr. Esther Hess, as of July 2009 to present.

Ask the Expert, Guest columnist for American Play Therapy Journal, March 2010.

Hess, Esther B.: Mining Report: Best Practices in Autism. Association for Play Therapy, April, 2009.

Hess, Esther: Introduction to Floor/Time: A Developmental/Relational Approach to the Treatment of Autism. In: Play Therapy Magazine, March, 2009. Reprinted with permission from the Southern California Regional Play Therapy Association.

Hess, Esther: Introduction to Floor/Time: A Developmental/Relational Approach to the Treatment of Autism. In: Southern California Regional Play Therapy Association Newsletter, January, 2009

Hess, Esther: , In: Play Therapy Magazine, December 2008

Hess, E.B.: Why Is It So Hard To Say 'No' to Our Children With Special Needs, In TAPS Magazine, June 2007

Hess, E.B.: I Look At Life From Both Sides Now, in TAPS Magazine, March 2006

Hess, E.B.: "Floor Time: An Intervention with Children Impacted with Developmental Delays”, in American Play Therapist Newsletter, September 2005.

Hess, E.B.: Clinical Support Necessary When Supporting Parents Through the Diagnosis of Autism in their Child”, in American Play Therapist Newsletter, Dec/2004.

Guest Editor May/June 2004, Los Angles Psychologist

Hess, E.B.: Helping Families with the Challenges of Raising a Special Needs Child, in Los Angeles Psychologist, May/June 2004.

Hess, E.B.: Narcissistic Mothers as a Risk Factor in the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder in their Offspring, 1996.

Shekim, W.O., Cantwell, D.P., Hess, E.: Blood Cell Monoamine Receptor Activity in Adolescents with Affective Disorders. Sci Pro American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35th Annual Meeting, 1988, p.64.

Shekim, W.O. Antun F., Hess, E.B.: S-adenosyl-l-methonine (SAM) in adults with ADHD, RS. Results from an open trial. Psychopharm Bul., September 1988.

Shekim. W.O., Asarnow, R.F., Hess, E.: A clinical and demographic study of hyperactive adults. Presented at the 141st Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Montreal, May 1988.

Organizations (top)

Joined the board of directors for Autism Speaks, November 2009

Joined North Los Angeles County Task force of the California Senate on Autism and Related Disabilities, October 2009

Board member Childhood Anxiety Network, January 2009

Diplomat in Counseling, March 2007

Founding board member Switzer School; Autism Spectrum Disorder Division, Torrance, California, January 2006

Diplomat in Clinical Psychotherapy, August 2005

Diplomat in Child and Adolescent Psychology, September 2004

Member: Interdisciplinary Counsel for infancy and early childhood development. Dr. Stanley Greenspan, founder, 1998.

Associate member of the American Psychological Association, 1988

Board member of Nefesh. National Organization of Orthodox Mental Health Workers, February 1997

References (top)

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