Kelly Kinnish
Director, National Center on Child trafficking- Education
Ph.D., University of Utah, Clinical Psychology (Child).
MS, University of Utah, Clinical Psychology (Child).
BS, University of Washington, Psychology.
- Specializations
Child Trauma and Maltreatment, Child Sexual Abuse; Child Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation; Trauma-Focused Evidence-based treatments; Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Child serving systems (Child Protective Services, Foster Care, Juvenile Justice) and impacts; Multi-disciplinary response to child maltreatment and Child Advocacy Centers.
- Biography
Kelly Kinnish, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and the Director of the National Center on Child Trafficking in the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development and the Department of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. She has over 30 years of experience working with maltreated and at-risk children and families in clinical, research, and administrative capacities, with a specific interest and expertise in child trauma and trafficking. Previously she was the Director of Clinical Services at the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy for 14 years, as well as the Director of Project Intersect and the Envision Project, federally funded programs focused on improving the well-being of commercially sexually exploited and trafficked children. She is active in both state and national task forces and working groups addressing this complex public health concern with a particular focus on effective interventions and collaborative systems response, including serving as Chair of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Child Sex Trafficking Workgroup. She is a Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) National Trainer with specific expertise in applying this evidence-based treatment with commercially sexually exploited and trafficked children.
- Publications
Perry, E. W., Osborne, M. C., Lee, N ., Kinnish, K., Self-Brown, S. (In Press). The PTSD symptom presentation and the effect of polytrauma on PTSD symptom clusters among young people who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.Perry, E. W., Osborne, M. C., Lee, N., Kinnish, K., Self-Brown, S. (2022). Posttraumatic cognitions and posttraumatic stress symptoms among young people who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Public Health Reports, 137(Supplement 1), 91S 101S.Self-Brown, S. R., Osborne, M. C., Lee, N., Perry, E. W., & Kinnish, K. (2021). Exploring the impact of trauma history on the mental health presentations of youth who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Behavioral medicine, 1–19. Kinnish, K., Cohen, JA., Mannarino, A., & Kliethermes, M. (2021). TF-CBT for CSEC Implementation Manual: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Applications for Children who have Experienced Commercial Sexual Exploitation, http://tfcbt.org/tf-cbt-for-csec-implementation-manual/. Kinnish, K., McCarty, C., Tiwari, A., Osborne, M., Glasheen, T., Franchot, K., Kramer, C., & Self-Brown, S. (2020). Featured counter-trafficking program: Project Intersect, Child Abuse and Neglect, 2210.1016.Lai, B. Tiwari, A., Self-Brown, S., Cronholm,. P, & Kinnish, K. (2017) Patterns of Caregiver Factors Predicting Participation in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therap. J. of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 12.Self-Brown, S., Tiwari, A., Lai, B., Roby, S., Kinnish, K. (2016) Impact of Caregiver Factors on Youth Service Utilization of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral therapy in a Community Setting. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 1871-1879.Cohen, J., Mannarino, T. & Kinnish, K. (2015). Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.Yuan, N., Gaines, T., Jones, L., Rodriguez, L., Hamilton, N., Kinnish, K. (2015) Bridging the gap between research and practice by strengthening academic-community partnerships for violence research, Psychology of Violence, 6, 27-33. Tener D., (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Tener%20D%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=25492668) Walsh W.A., (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Walsh%20WA%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=25492668) Jones L.M., & (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Jones%20LM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=25492668) . (2014) "It all depends on the guy and the girl": a qualitative study of youth experiences with statutory victimization relationships Kinnish K (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Kinnish%20K%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=25492668) . ; 23(8):935-56. J Child Sex Abuse (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25492668) Updated CV https://publichealth.gsu.edu/files/formidable/13/Kinnish-CV-GSU-2022.pdf