Jessica L GriffinJessica L. Griffin, PsyD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), where she has been a faculty member since 2006. Dr. Griffin is a nationally recognized expert in Trauma-FocusedCognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), trauma, and relationships. She has trained and provided consultation for thousands of clinicians across the United States. With funding from SAMHSA/NCTSN in 2012, as Principal Investigator and Executive Director, she developed the UMMS Child Trauma Training Center, with a focus on training, treatment, and resolving access issues for youth who have experienced trauma. Within this initiative, Dr. Griffin created and piloted a highly innovative centralized referral system, LINK-KID, targeted at decreasing wait-times for youth and families to trauma-focused evidence-based treatments. Due to LINK-KID's early successes, she and her team expanded LINK-KID to what is now a statewide capacity, serving trauma victims throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To date, under her direction, the center has trained over 45,000 professionals in trauma-informed care and trauma-responsive practices and successfully referred over 4,000 youth into evidence-based treatment models. In April of 2020, Dr. Griffin was awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar grant to develop the national Resilience through Relationships Center, housed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School aimed at supporting parents, caregivers, and children exposed to trauma.
Dr. Griffin is a clinical and forensic psychologist with a specialty in trauma and relationships. She has extensive expertise in childhood maltreatment, attachment and relationships, psychological evaluation, and divorce and custody matters. She presents regularly at the local, national, and international level on topics related to childhood trauma, relationships, TF-CBT, and forensic evaluation of children and families and has published journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics related to trauma and relationships. Dr. Griffin has received numerous awards for her work and has been featured on NPR, Fox News, the Insider, iHeartRadio, the New York Post, ENews, the Daily Mail, Reader's Digest, Forbes, Business Insider and other media outlets and has appeared on television, serving as an expert and consultant on several television docuseries about relationships, marriage, and divorce on A&E's Lifetime Television network. She is the CEO of LoveBuilder, a relationship company, which provides educational online courses to couples, singles, and parents.
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