Jessica Hobson

Lecturer

Jessica Hobson
Jessica Hobson

Office

Stevenson 3205

Office Hours

Mon:
9:00 am-10:00 am In person
Tue:
2:00 pm-3:00 pm via Zoom Professor Hobson's Zoom Link
Areas of Interest
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Education

Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Jessica Hobson is Clinical Director of the Family Guidance and Therapy Center, Petaluma. She is a licensed clinical psychologist (CA PSY28015) and Lecturer in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University (2013 – present). She was previously employed in London as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Child Health, University College London (2002 – 2013).

Dr. Hobson received her Ph.D. in child clinical psychology from the University of Miami (1996 – 2001), completed her predoctoral internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (2000 – 2001), and did her postdoctoral clinical training at the Neuropsychology Center of Louisiana (2001 – 2002).

Her clinical specialties include assessment, diagnosis, consultation, and therapy for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Areas of clinical and research expertise include parent-child interaction, joint attention, social communication, sensory processing, emotion regulation, neurodiversity, and twice-exceptionality. She uses mindfulness and relationship-based approaches to intervention. She has published academic papers on diverse topics in ASD including comorbid psychiatric symptoms, sensory processing differences, social anxiety, and neurocognitive profiles.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Larkin, F., Hobson, J. A., Hobson, R. P., & Tolmie, A. (2017). Collaborative competence in dialogue: Pragmatic language impairment as a window onto the psychopathology of autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 43-44, 27 – 39.

Hobson, J.A., Tarver, L., Beurkens, N., & Hobson, R. P. (2015). The Relation Between Severity of Autism and Caregiver-Child Interaction: A Study in the Context of Relationship Development Intervention. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 16, 45 – 56.

Hobson, J.A., Hobson, R.P., Cheung, Y.,& Caló S. (2015). Symbolizing as interpersonally grounded shifts in meaning: Social play in children with and without autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 20, 42 – 52.

Larkin, F., Geurin, S., Hobson, JA, & Gutstein, S. (2015). The Relationship Development Assessment - Research Version: Preliminary validation of a clinical tool and coding schemes to measure parent-child interaction in autism. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 20, 239 – 260.

DuBois, J., Hobson, R.P, & Hobson, J.A. (2014). Dialogic resonance in autism. Cognitive Linguistics, 25, 411 – 441.

Hobson JA, Hobson RP, Malik S, Bargiota K, Caló S. (2013). The relation between social engagement and pretend play in autism. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31, 114 – 127.

Beurkens NM, Hobson JA, Hobson RP. (2013). Autism severity and qualities of parent-child relations. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 168 – 178.

Hobson RP, Hobson JA, García-Pérez R, Du Bois J. (2012). Dialogic linkage and resonance in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 2718 – 2728.

Vaughan Van Hecke A, Mundy P, Block JJ, Delgado CE, Parlade MV, Pomares YB, Hobson JA (2012). Infant responding to joint attention, executive processes, and self-regulation in preschool children. Infant Behavior and Development, 35, 303 – 311.

Hobson, J. A., & Bowler, D. (2010). Editorial: The Self in Autism (Special Issue). Autism, 14, 387 – 390.

Hobson, R.P., Lee, A., & Hobson, J.A. (2010). Personal pronouns and communicative engagement in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 653 – 664.

14 publications from 2001 – 2009