Jacob Hess

After graduating from Brigham Young University, Jacob studied in the clinical-community psychology doctoral program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation research examined competing narratives of medical treatment for depression. After finishing his PhD, Jacob accepted a position as research director at Utah Youth Village, a nonprofit for abused children and families in crisis. In recent years, his focus has been long-term treatment outcome studies and developing in-home, public health interventions for depression. With mindfulness teacher, Tom McConkie, Jacob recently started a new non-profit, All of Life (www.alloflife.org)--with an aim of developing online, risk-factor oriented classes for depression, anxiety and ADHD.