Benita Amedee
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Pronouns: she, her, hers
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Instructor
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Institute of Child Development
Carmen D. and James R. Campbell Hall
51 East River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455 - amed0002@umn.edu
Areas of interest
Culture, cross-culture; early childhood; Families and parenting; Infancy; Infant and early childhood mental health; Reflective practice; Social and emotional development
PsyD in Counseling Psychology, University of St. Thomas, 2008; Certificate in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, University of Minnesota
Benita Amedee, PsyD, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over thirty years of therapy and culturally-specific counseling experience working with children and families in school-based, in-patient, in-home, shelter, and residential treatment centers. Recent work also includes mental health consultation to child care centers through the Department of Human Services. Her extensive work with adolescent mothers fostered her interest in working with mother-child dyads and in infant and early childhood mental health. She earned a certificate in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health from the University of Minnesota and is rostered in Trauma-informed Child Parent Psychotherapy. Dr. Amedee is an instructor in the Certificate and Master's Program in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health.
Courses taught
- Infant Observation, Reflective Consultation and Supervision