Benjamin A Jones, PsyD

Dr. Benjamin A. Jones, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with Prisma Heath Children’s Hospital. He received his doctoral training at the Georgia School of Professional Psychology, focusing on pediatric psychology. During doctoral training he completed practica and advanced practica at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Center and at the Emory University School of Medicine at Grady Hospital Pediatric Infectious Disease Program. Dr. Jones was then accepted for the O’Grady Residency in Pediatric Psychology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where he provided inpatient and outpatient treatment to children and adolescents presenting with a wide array of medical and developmental conditions, including feeding disorders, hematological/oncological diagnoses, craniofacial anomalies, toileting issues, and autism spectrum disorders. Following residency he remained at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for two-year postdoctoral fellowship in treatment and research in pediatric chronic pain. During fellowship he treated pediatric patients referred from orthopedics, rheumatology, neurology, gastroenterology and other services. He was also responsible for inpatient pain rounds, conducted research in pediatric pain, supervised research assistants and co-authored several articles on the treatment of pain in children and adolescents. After fellowship Dr. Jones was employed by the Prisma Health Children’s Hospital.

During his tenure at this institution he has treated children and adolescents in Developmental Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Endocrinology. He has also conducted psychological assessment of children with brain tumors, late effects of chemotherapy, developmental delays, learning disorders, executive dysfunction and autism spectrum disorders. Currently, Dr. Jones provides treatment services to patients in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Pediatric Pain Medicine.

His research interests include multidisciplinary treatment of pediatric pain, reintegration of chronically ill children into the educational setting and multidisciplinary treatment of children with inflammatory bowel disease. At professional meetings he has presented on topics such as coping and resiliency in chronically ill children and adolescents, outcomes of multidisciplinary treatment of pediatric pain, healthcare utilization, behavioral and functional sequelae of pediatric brain tumors and sickle cell disease, toileting issues, and school reintegration of pediatric cancer patients.