Dr. Kim is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is also the Program Manager of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) program at Bradley Hospital. Dr. Kim received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Rhode Island and doctorate from the Clinical Child Psychology Program at the University of Kansas. She completed both her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship (specializing in the assessment and treatment of childhood anxiety) at Children’s National Medical Center. The primary goal of Dr. Kim’s research is to identify multi-level factors -- biological, behavioral, and environmental -- impacting mental health outcomes and response to evidence-based treatments.
Kim KL, Christensen RE, Ruggieri A, Schettini E, Freeman JB, Garcia AM, Flessner C, Stewart E, Conelea C, Dickstein DP. "Cognitive performance of youth with primary generalized anxiety disorder versus primary obsessive-compulsive disorder." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 36, no. 2, 2019, pp. 130-140. |
Esposito‐Smythers, Christianne, Wolff, Jennifer C., Liu, Richard T., Hunt, Jeffrey I., Adams, Leah, Kim, Kerri, Frazier, Elisabeth A., Yen, Shirley, Dickstein, Daniel P., Spirito, Anthony. "Family-focused cognitive behavioral treatment for depressed adolescents in suicidal crisis with co-occurring risk factors: a randomized trial." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 60, no. 10, 2019, pp. 1133-1141. |
Thomas SA, Christensen RE, Schettini E, Saletin JM, Ruggieri AL, MacPherson HA, Kim KL, Dickstein DP. "Preliminary analysis of resting state functional connectivity in young adults with subtypes of bipolar disorder." Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 246, 2019, pp. 716-726. |
Kim, Kerri L., Galione, Janine. "DBT-A as a well-established treatment for suicide and self-injury." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 34, no. 7, 2018, pp. 1-6. |
Titelius, Elise N., Cook, Emily, Spas, Jayson, Orchowski, Lindsay, Kivisto, Katie, O’Brien, Kimberly, Frazier, Elisabeth, Wolff, Jennifer C., Dickstein, Daniel P., Kim, Kerri L., Seymour, Karen E. "Emotion Dysregulation Mediates the Relationship Between Child Maltreatment and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury." Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, vol. 27, no. 3, 2017, pp. 323-331. |
Gallone, Janine, Kim, Kerri L., Pelletier, Amanda. "How DBT-A in residential treatment facilities may help to overcome caregiver burden." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 34, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-6. |
Kim, Kerri L., Cushman, Grace K., Weissman, Alexandra B., Puzia, Megan E., Wegbreit, Ezra, Tone, Erin B., Spirito, Anthony, Dickstein, Daniel P. "Behavioral and emotional responses to interpersonal stress: A comparison of adolescents engaged in non-suicidal self-injury to adolescent suicide attempters." Psychiatry Research, vol. 228, no. 3, 2015, pp. 899-906. |
Dickstein, Daniel P., Cushman, Grace K., Kim, Kerri L., Weissman, Alexandra B., Wegbreit, Ezra. "Cognitive remediation: potential novel brain-based treatment for bipolar disorder in children and adolescents." CNS Spectrums, vol. 20, no. 4, 2015, pp. 382-390. |
Seymour, Karen E., Jones, Richard N., Cushman, Grace K., Galvan, Thania, Puzia, Megan E., Kim, Kerri L., Spirito, Anthony, Dickstein, Daniel P. "Emotional face recognition in adolescent suicide attempters and adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury." European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 25, no. 3, 2015, pp. 247-59. |
Kim KL, Galvan T, Puzia ME, Cushman GK, Seymour KE, Vanmali R, Jones RN, Spirito A, Dickstein DP. "Psychiatric and Self-Injury Profiles of Adolescent Suicide Attempters versus Adolescents Engaged in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 45, no. 1, 2015, pp. 37-50. |
Dickstein, Daniel P., Puzia, Megan E., Cushman, Grace K., Weissman, Alexandra B., Wegbreit, Ezra, Kim, Kerri L., Nock, Matthew K., Spirito, Anthony. "Self‐injurious implicit attitudes among adolescent suicide attempters versus those engaged in nonsuicidal self‐injury." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 56, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1127-1136. |
Kim KL, Weissman AB, Puzia ME, Cushman GK, Seymour KE, Wegbreit E, Carskadon MA, Dickstein DP. "Circadian Phase Preference in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder." Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 3, no. 1, 2014, pp. 255-66. |
Kim, Kerri L., Reynolds, Katharine C., Alfano, Candice A. "Social impairment in children with obsessive compulsive disorder: Do comorbid problems of inattention and hyperactivity matter?." Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, vol. 1, no. 4, 2012, pp. 228-233. |
Alfano CA, Kim KL. "Objective sleep patterns and severity of symptoms in pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder: a pilot investigation." Journal of Anxiety Disorders, vol. 25, no. 6, 2011, pp. 835-9. |
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2009 | PhD | University of Kansas |
2006 | MA | University of Kansas |
2002 | BA | University of Rhode Island |
Name | Title |
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Horowitz, Karyn | Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
MacPherson, Heather | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) |
Spirito, Anthony | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
Wolff, Jennifer | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator |
American Psychological Association
Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (APA Division 53)
Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (APA Division 37)
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies