Theresa S. Betancourt is the inaugural Salem Professor in Global Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work and Director of the Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA).
Her primary research interest is to understand the protective processes that contribute to risk and resilience in the mental health and development of children and adolescents facing adversity in a variety of cultures and settings. Dr. Betancourt has led initiatives to adapt and test evidence-based behavioral and parenting interventions for children and families facing adversity; she additionally focuses on strategies for scaling out these interventions using implementation science approaches.
She is Principal Investigator of an intergenerational study of war/prospective longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone, a scale-up Family Strengthening Intervention for children and families in Rwanda, and community-based participatory research on prevention of emotional and behavioral problems in refugee children and adolescents resettled in the U.S.
To read more about Theresa Betancourt, kindly visit: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/ssw/sites/research-program-on-children-and-adversity.html
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- Armed conflict (causes, dynamics, prevention)
- Children and DDR
- Community violence reduction
- Cross-border population movements
- Health and DDR
- Reintegration
- Women, gender and DDR
- Youth and DDR
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