Amie Bettencourt, Ph.D., M.S.

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  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Locations

Kennedy Krieger Institute

1741 Ashland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21205
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Background

Dr. Bettencourt is a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with joint faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is also the Director of Research and Evaluation for Maryland Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care (MD BHIPP) which is a multi-university partnership between the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, and the Salisbury University School of Social Work, whose mission is to increase access to pediatric mental health services for Maryland’s children through workforce development of pediatric primary care providers, emergency medicine providers and behavioral health providers. Dr. Bettencourt’s research focuses on identifying risk and protective factors associated with the development of disruptive behavior problems and evaluating efforts to integrate evidence-based interventions designed to prevent and treat pediatric mental health problems into early education, school, and primary care settings. Clinically, Dr. Bettencourt is a child psychologist in the Developmental Behavioral Health Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute where she focuses on the prevention and treatment of disruptive behavior problems in children, with a particular focus on parenting interventions. Dr. Bettencourt received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. She completed her predoctoral internship training at La Rabida Children's Hospital in Chicago and went on to complete her postdoctoral fellowship in prevention science in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health within the Department of Mental Health.

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Titles

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Departments / Divisions

Centers & Institutes

Education

Degrees

  • B.S.; University of California (Los Angeles) (California) (2002)
  • M.S.; Virginia Commonwealth University (Virginia) (2006)
  • Ph.D.; Virginia Commonwealth University (Virginia) (2010)

Research & Publications

Research Summary

Identifying risk and protective factors associated with the development of disruptive behavior problems, and evaluating efforts to integrate evidence-based interventions designed to prevent and treat pediatric mental health problems into early education, school, and primary care settings. 

Selected Publications

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Bettencourt AF, Gross D, Schock N, Ferro R, Perrin N. Embedding a Parenting Skills Program in Public PreK: Outcomes of a Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods Study. Early Educ and Dev. 2023:1-24. doi:10.1080/10409289.2023.2247954

Bettencourt AF, Clary L, Ialongo N, & Musci R. Long-term Consequences of Bullying Involvement in First Grade. J of Sch Psychol. 2023; 97: 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2023.01.004

Bettencourt AF, Coble K, Reinblatt SP, Jadhav S, Khan KN, Riddle MA. Characteristics of Patients Served by a Statewide Child Psychiatry Access Program. Psychiatr Serv. 2023; 74(7); 718-726. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.20220323

Bettencourt AF, Musci RJ, Masyn KE, Farrell AD. Latent Classes of Aggression and Peer Victimization: Measurement Invariance and Differential Item Functioning Across Sex, Race‐ethnicity, Cohort, and Study Site. Child Dev. 2022;93(2). doi:10.1111/cdev.13691

Bettencourt AF, Plesko CM. A Systematic Review of the Methods Used to Evaluate Child Psychiatry Access Programs. Acad Pediatrics. 2020;20(8):1071-1082. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2020.07.015

Activities & Honors

Honors

  • Nan Tobler Award for Review of the Prevention Science Literature, Society for Prevention Research, 2012
  • Child Intervention and Prevention Services (CHIPS) Fellow, NIMH, 2013
  • Research and Assessment Leadership Award for the Quasi-Experimental Study of the Read to Succeed Program, Council for Great City Schools, 2014
  • Outstanding Publication Award in the area of Assessment and Accountability, American Educational Research Association Division H, 2015
  • Outstanding Publication Award in the area of Applied Research Reports, American Educational Research Association Division H, 2017
  • NIH Loan Repayment Program Award Recipient, 2018
  • Outstanding Teaching Faculty for JHBSPH Summer Institute Course entitled School-based preventive interventions and research,, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2021 - 2023
  • 2023 Article of the Year Award for Journal of School Psychology for the article Long-term consequences of bullying involvement in first grade, Journal of School Psychology, 2024

Memberships

  • Society for Prevention Research
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