Jane C. Hickerson, PhD, LCSW
Newport Beach, CA 92663
Jane Hickerson, PhD, LCSW, served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington for over 30 years. In the School of Social Work, she taught courses in intervention with mental health clients and in human development and behavior. Ultimately, she served as Assistant Dean of Field Education. She has over 25 years of experience in social work practice.
Since her retirement from the University of Texas at Arlington, she continues her private practice in counseling and consulting in child sexual abuse.
Dr. Hickerson has been a Forensic Expert with Park Dietz & Associates since 2018. She specializes in contemporaneous “standard of care” for cases involving schools, social service programs, and cases involving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and/or physical challenges.
- Child Abuse
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Social Work/Social Services
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A:
• PhD, Clinical Social Work – The University of Texas at Arlington
• Master of Science in Social Work – The University of Texas at Arlington
• Master of Arts in English – The University of Texas at Arlington
• BA, English (Summa Cum Laude) – The University of Texas at Arlington
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (TX #25536)
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Contemporaneous standard of care in social service programs, focusing on practices that prevent, investigate, and respond to episodes of sexual abuse.
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: 6 years
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Document review, consulting, reports, deposition/testifying as an expert
Tom Heinrich (Forsberg & Umlauf)
Paul Stewart (Paine Hamblen)
Office of the Attorney General, State of Washington