Amie Bettencourt, PhD, MS

Dr. Amie Bettencourt received her Ph.D. in clinical child psychology in 2010 from Virginia Commonwealth University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in prevention science at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Bettencourt is a clinical child psychologist and assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with joint faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Bettencourt spent three years working for the Baltimore City Public Schools as a program evaluation specialist and three years working for the Fund for Educational Excellence as the Project Director of the ChiPP Project, an effort to integrate the Chicago Parent Program into Baltimore City Public Schools PreK programs. Dr. Bettencourt’s research focuses on identifying malleable risk and protective factors associated with the development of disruptive behavior problems, and evaluating efforts to integrate interventions designed to prevent and treat pediatric mental health problems into schools and primary care settings. Quantitatively, Dr. Bettencourt has a special interest in the use of mixture modeling, particularly latent class analysis and latent transition analysis, to examine heterogeneity in developmental, educational, and mental health phenomena.