• Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Psychology (2007)
• University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry. Predoctoral-Postdoctoral Fellowship, Recipient of R.E. Harris Award for Outstanding Fellow in Clinical Psychology (1986-1988)
  
• University of New Mexico, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Accredited by the American Psychological Association (1987)
  
• Colorado State University. B.S. Psychology, graduated Phi Beta Kappa "with distinction", (1980)

Professional Experience:

• Private Practice, Psychotherapy & Forensic Evaluations (1990 — present)
  
• Program Director, Dual Diagnosis Program, & Staff Psychologist, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, (1988-1998)
  
• Senior Faculty, San Mateo County Mental Health Services, Psychiatry Residency Training Program (2000 — present)
• Belmont Hills Hospital, Professional Staff (1993-1998)
  
• Woodside Women's Hospital, Medical Staff (1990-1992)
  

• Kline, J.S., Mehler, K.A. (2006). Diagnostic Inaccuracy and Substance Abusing Patients with Comorbid Mental Disorders. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 2, 107-115.
• Malcus L., & Kline J. (2001) Language as a saboteur: The case of "case management." Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 32, 188-193.
• Marlo, H., & Kline, J. (1998). Synchronicity and Psychotherapy: Unconscious Communication in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship. Psychotherapy, 35, 13-22.
  
• Kline, J., Horn, D., & Patterson, M. (1996). Meaning and development in the interpersonal treatment of severe psychopathology. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 60, 314-329.
  
• Stewart, J., Horn, D., Becker, J., & Kline, J. (1993). Postdoctoral training in severe mental illness: A model for trainee development. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24, 286-292.
  
• Kline, J. S., Becker, J., & Geise, C. (1992). Psychodynamic interventions revisited: Options for the treatment of schizophrenia. Psychotherapy, 29, 366-377.
  
• Kline, J. S., Smith, J. E., Ellis, H. E., (1992). Paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenic processing of facially displayed affect. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 26, 169-182.
  

Over 35 professional presentations and seminars in the areas of developmental problems across the lifespan, psychotherapy and professional practice, self-injury, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, schizophrenia, dream analysis, symbolism & spirituality, group therapy, child development & parenting styles for child custody evaluations, criminal forensic evaluations, intimate partner violence.