Dr. Belcourt is an American Indian Professor and clinical psychologist in the College of Health at the University of Montana’s School of Public and Community Health Sciences Department. She is the academic chair of the Native American Studies Department and a full tenured professor at the University of Montana. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfeet, and Chippewa descent. She was raised on her home Blackfeet Reservation where she completed her pre-undergraduate education. She completed her clinical training and doctoral studies at the University of Montana with advanced postdoctoral science training completed at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the University of Colorado Denver. She has worked as a clinician with diverse populations specializing in posttraumatic stress reactions including multiple psychiatric conditions. Her research and clinical priorities include mental health disparities, posttraumatic stress reactions, risk, resiliency, psychiatric disorder, and environmental public health within the cultural context of American Indian communities.

Research interests:

• American Indian and Alaska Native health disparities research
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• trauma
• mental health
• environmental health
• community-engaged research
• intervention and prevention