Featured Psychologist
Annjeanette Belcourt-Dittloff, PhD, (Otter Woman) is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of Pharmacy Practice/Community and Public Health Sciences at the University of Montana’s College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences. Belcourt-Dittloff is an American Indian who is enrolled as a tribal member of the Three Affiliated Tribes: affiliation Blackfeet, Chippewa, Mandan & Hidatsa. Belcourt-Dittloff serves at the director of the Health Disparities Research Initiatives at the University of Montana’s College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests include resiliency, public health interventions, risk, trauma, mental health disparities and environmental health and public health interventions within the cultural context of American Indian communities.
Belcourt-Dittloff has conducted grant-funded research projects with multiple organizations including the National Institute of Mental Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Montana Mental Health Settlement Trust Fund and the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program both as a principal investigator, project director, and fellow. In those capacities she has studied risk and resiliency in American Indians, examining spirituality, communal support, ethnic identity and other sociocultural factors that contribute to Indian American mental health. Belcourt-Dittloff has served as a collaborator for the Native American Center of Excellence and a bilingual instructional assistant for American Indian students in the Missoula Public School District.
Belcourt-Dittloff has been a member of the APA since 1996 and a member of the Society of Indian Psychologists since 2004. Her work has been published in both American Psychologist®and Psychological Bulletin®. In both 2002 and 2005, Belcourt-Dittloff received the APA’s Mental Health Research Fellowship.
Resource:
https://health.umt.edu/pharmacypractice/Faculty%20and%20Preceptors/Directory.php?ID=3227