Amanda Venta, PhD

Associate Professor; Director, Youth and Family Studies Lab, University of Houston

Dr. Amanda Venta, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Psychology, a licensed clinical psychologist, and Director of the Youth and Family Studies Lab at the University of Houston (UH). She earned a B.A. at Rice University and an M.A. and Ph.D. at UH, and taught at Sam Houston State University for five years. Her pre-doctoral internship and practica were with several Houston-area schools, Texas Children’s Hospital, and DePelchin Children’s Center through Baylor’s Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she remains Adjunct Faculty. Her research encompasses psychopathology in youth, attachment security, emotion dysregulation, and social cognition, with a recent focus on the psychology of recently immigrated adolescents from Central America. She has received research funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health, among others. She serves on the editorial boards of Attachment and Human Development, Child Psychiatry and Human Development, and the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and has published 135+ scientific papers, chapters, and books.