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Amanda C. Venta

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Houston
DepartmentPsychology
Address4800 Calhoun Rd
Houston TX 77004
Phone713.743.4378
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    R01MD016897     (VENTA, AMANDA CRISTINA)Sep 21, 2022 - May 31, 2026
    NIH
    Posttraumatic Distress and the Immigrant Experience: Individual and Interpersonal Risk and Resilience across Domains of Influence
    Role: Principal Investigator
    F31MH100827     (VENTA, AMANDA CRISTINA)Aug 1, 2013 - Jul 31, 2015
    NIH
    Oxytocin and Social Engagement
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Banda F, Torres A, Morales F, Palomin A, Venta A, Garcini L, Mercado A. Types of traumatic experiences and cultural values associated with posttraumatic stress in recently immigrated asylum-seekers from Central America. Am J Community Psychol. 2025 Mar 27. PMID: 40145135.
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    2. Cadenas GA, Domenech Rodr?guez MM, Garcini LM, Mendoza JG, Suro B, Mercado A, Rojas Perez OF, Venta A, Galvan T, Moreno O, Paris M. Antiracist activism for immigrant rights and healthy coping: Initial evidence for a community-based framework. Am J Community Psychol. 2024 Dec 25. PMID: 39720927.
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    3. Galvan T, Venta A, Moreno O, Gudi?o OG, Mercado A. Cultural stress is toxic stress: An expanded cultural stress theory model for understanding mental health risk in Latinx immigrant youth. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Oct; 30(4):863-875. PMID: 38780599.
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    4. Bautista A, Venta A. Attachment security and somatization: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation in a sample of Latinx young adults. J Affect Disord. 2024 Apr 15; 351:165-171. PMID: 38296054.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    5. Garcini LM, Barrita A, Cadenas GA, Domenech Rodr?guez MM, Galvan T, Mercado A, Moreno O, Paris M, Rojas Perez OF, Silva M, Venta A. A decolonial and liberation lens to social justice research: Upholding promises for diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science. Am Psychol. 2025 Jan; 80(1):1-14. PMID: 38127489; PMCID: PMC11190034.
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    6. Venta A, Bautista A, Cuervo M, Mercado A, Garcini LM, Colunga-Rodr?guez C, ?ngel-Gonz?lez M, Preciado-Rodr?guez TM, Cardenas FP, Sotelo KV, Payan T. Family Separation at the US and Mexico Border Continues. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Jul; 63(7):670-672. PMID: 38070871.
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    7. Moreno O, Garcini L, Domenech Rodriguez M, Mercado A, Venta A, Galvan T, Silva M, Rojas Perez OF, Cadenas GA, Paris M. Liderando juntos y revueltos: A collectivistic leadership approach to address Latinx immigrant health and psychological needs. Psychol Serv. 2024 Nov; 21(4):758-765. PMID: 37796603; PMCID: PMC11753812.
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    8. Sharp C, Venta A, McLaren V. Interpersonal Trust in Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder: Comparisons With Healthy and Psychiatric Controls. J Pers Disord. 2023 Oct; 37(5):475-489. PMID: 37903026.
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    9. Venta A, Richardson A, Gallagher MW, Mercado A, Colunga-Rodriguez C, Gonzalez MA, Picazo GD. Factor structure of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised in Latin American young adults. Psychol Trauma. 2024 Jul; 16(5):794-801. PMID: 37535536.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    10. Venta A, Bailey C, Cuervo M, Galicia B, Cerda O, Bautista A, Walker J. First data and translation of the Child Attachment Interview en Espa?ol. Psychol Assess. 2023 Aug; 35(8):e43-e53. PMID: 37470996.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    11. Rojas Perez OF, Silva MA, Galvan T, Moreno O, Venta A, Garcini L, Paris M. Buscando la Calma Dentro de la Tormenta: A Brief Review of the Recent Literature on the Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Policies on Stress Among Latinx Immigrants. Chronic Stress (Thousand Oaks). 2023 Jan-Dec; 7:24705470231182475. PMID: 37441366; PMCID: PMC10334021.
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    12. Galvan T, Venta A, Silva MA, Moreno O, Mercado A, Garcini LM. Applying an Antiracist Approach to Promoting Health Equity and Psychological Well-Being in Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2023 11; 62(11):1179-1181. PMID: 36948395; PMCID: PMC11808733.
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    13. Morales FR, Gonz?lez Vera JM, Silva MA, Cadenas GA, Mendoza JG, Garcini LM, Paris M, Venta A, Domenech Rodr?guez MM, Mercado A. An Exploratory Study of Healing Circles as a Strategy to Facilitate Resilience in an Undocumented Community. J Lat Psychol. 2023 May; 11(2):119-133. PMID: 37841450; PMCID: PMC10569501.
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    14. Venta A, Bautista A, Garcini LM, Silva M, Mercado A, Rojas Perez OF, Pimentel N, Hampton K. Impact of COVID-19 on Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors and Families: Perspectives from Clinical Experts and Providers. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2024 Jan-Feb; 53(1):24-36. PMID: 36726050; PMCID: PMC10390642.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansPHPublic Health
    15. Mercado A, Venta A, Morales F, Palomin A, Garcini L, Silva M, Domenech Rodr?guez MM. Trauma in the American asylum process: Experiences of immigrant families under the migrant protection protocols. Psychol Trauma. 2024 Aug; 16(Suppl 2):S379-S388. PMID: 36222662; PMCID: PMC10083184.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    16. Silva MA, Domenech Rodr?guez M, Garcini L, Mercado A, Cadenas G, Venta A, Paris M. VALOR: Cultural considerations when assessing Central American immigrant women in behavioral health settings. Pract Innov (Wash D C). 2022 Sep; 7(3):268-279. PMID: 37503308; PMCID: PMC10373987.
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    17. Venta A, Cuervo M, Bautista A, Walker J. A strong contender for mental health screening in Latinx immigrant youth: Psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Psychiatry Res. 2022 10; 316:114780. PMID: 35988327.
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    18. Walker JH, Cuervo M, Venta A. Familismo neutralizes the effects of discrimination on suicide-related thoughts and behaviors in Latinx young adults. J Affect Disord. 2022 10 15; 315:57-63. PMID: 35908605.
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    19. Venta A, McLaren V, Sharp C, Abate A, Allman M, Cervantes B, Kerr S, Hernandez Ortiz J, Sumlin E, Walker J, Wall K. Does coding internal working models of attachment have to be so hard? Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 02; 55(1):227-235. PMID: 35838815; PMCID: PMC9283821.
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    20. Venta A, Cadenas G, Mercado A, Garcini LM, Domenech Rodr?guez MM. Trauma Exposure and Trauma Symptoms as Predictors of Police Perceptions in Latinx Youths. Psychol Violence. 2022 Jul; 12(4):252-259. PMID: 37465178; PMCID: PMC10353768.
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    21. Venta A, Cuervo M. Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration. Curr Opin Psychol. 2022 10; 47:101406. PMID: 35841884.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    22. Venta A, Bailey CA, Walker J, Mercado A, Colunga-Rodriguez C, ?ngel-Gonz?lez M, D?valos-Picazo G. Reverse-Coded Items Do Not Work in Spanish: Data From Four Samples Using Established Measures. Front Psychol. 2022; 13:828037. PMID: 35814114; PMCID: PMC9261978.
      Citations: 3     
    23. DeBrabander M, Venta A. Migration experiences of Central American youth: Developing a new measure. Psychiatry Res. 2022 08; 314:114652. PMID: 35640324.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    24. Leonard SJ, Zegel M, Venta A, Vujanovic AA. Insecure Adult Attachment Style and PTSD Symptom Severity among Firefighters: The Role of Distress Tolerance. J Aggress Maltreat Trauma. 2023; 32(4):592-610. PMID: 37377579; PMCID: PMC10292721.
      Citations: 1     
    25. Venta A, Long T, Mercado A, Garcini LM, Cadenas GA. When the United States says you do not belong: Suicide-related thoughts and behaviors among immigrant young adults varying in immigration legal status. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2022 10; 52(5):876-886. PMID: 35535011; PMCID: PMC9867935.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    26. Walker JH, Venta A, Bechelli J, Brewer TM, Boisvert D, Bick J, Lewis R, Wells J, Armstrong T. Testing the role of inflammation in the relation of childhood maltreatment and suicidal ideation among young adults. J Clin Psychol. 2022 12; 78(12):2484-2496. PMID: 35302245.
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    27. Venta A, Bechelli J, Bick J, Brewer TM, Boisvert D, Wells J, Lewis RH, Armstrong T. Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing. Attach Hum Dev. 2022 08; 24(4):461-476. PMID: 34622742.
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    28. Rotenberg KJ, Sharp C, Venta A. Trust Beliefs in Significant Others, Interpersonal Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023 04; 54(2):450-459. PMID: 34599722; PMCID: PMC9977849.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    29. Venta A, Alfano C. Can Sleep Facilitate Adaptation for Immigrant High Schoolers? Longitudinal Relations Between Sleep Duration, Acculturative Stress, and Acculturation. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023 02; 54(1):147-153. PMID: 34427824.
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    30. Ball Cooper E, Anderson JL, Sharp C, Langley HA, Venta A. Attachment, Mentalization, and Criterion B of the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2021 Aug 02; 8(1):23. PMID: 34334129; PMCID: PMC8327423.
      Citations: 4     
    31. Harmon J, Venta A. Adolescent Posttraumatic Growth: A Review. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2021 08; 52(4):596-608. PMID: 32830298.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    32. Venta A, Alfano C. Sleep Duration Buffers The Effects of Adversity on Mental Health Among Recently Immigrated Latinx Adolescents. J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2022 Jun; 15(2):235-247. PMID: 35600519; PMCID: PMC9120277.
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    33. Mercado A, Garcini L, Venta A, Paris M. 'Remain In Mexico': Stories Of Trauma And Abuse. Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 07; 40(7):1170-1173. PMID: 34228517; PMCID: PMC8796864.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    34. Venta A, Bailey C, Mercado A, Colunga-Rodr?guez C. Family separation and attachment in young adults who were once left behind by caregiver migration. Psychiatry Res. 2021 08; 302:114039. PMID: 34139595.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    35. Marshall K, Venta A. Psychometric Evaluation of the Caregiver Version of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale in a Recently Immigrated, Spanish Speaking Population. Psychiatry Res. 2021 07; 301:113954. PMID: 33951575.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    36. Venta A, Bick J, Bechelli J. COVID-19 threatens maternal mental health and infant development: possible paths from stress and isolation to adverse outcomes and a call for research and practice. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2021 04; 52(2):200-204. PMID: 33619672; PMCID: PMC7899198.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    37. Salinas KZ, Venta A. Testing the Role of Emotion Dysregulation as a Predictor of Juvenile Recidivism. Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2021 Jan 21; 11(1):83-95. PMID: 34542451; PMCID: PMC8314338.
      Citations: 2     
    38. Zetino YL, Galicia BE, Venta A. Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience, and Emotional Problems in Latinx Immigrant Youth. Psychiatry Res. 2020 11; 293:113450. PMID: 32977052.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    39. Hatkevich C, Venta A, Sharp C. Theory of mind and suicide ideation and attempt in adolescent inpatients. J Affect Disord. 2019 09 01; 256:17-25. PMID: 31158712.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    40. Mu?oz CG, Abate A, Sharp C, Venta AC. Factor structure and clinical utility of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory in an inpatient sample. Psychiatry Res. 2019 05; 275:189-195. PMID: 30925306.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    41. Kavish N, Bailey C, Sharp C, Venta A. On the Relation Between General Intelligence and Psychopathic Traits: An Examination of Inpatient Adolescents. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2018 Jun; 49(3):341-351. PMID: 28836093.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    42. Ball Cooper E, Venta A, Sharp C. The role of maternal care in borderline personality disorder and dependent life stress. Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2018; 5:5. PMID: 29588857; PMCID: PMC5861727.
      Citations: 1     
    43. Venta A, Magyar M, Hossein S, Sharp C. The psychometric properties of the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent's Borderline Features Scale across two high-risk samples. Psychol Assess. 2018 06; 30(6):827-833. PMID: 29469580.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    44. Bailey C, Abate A, Sharp C, Venta A. Psychometric evaluation of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems 32. Bull Menninger Clin. 2018; 82(2):93-113. PMID: 29791195.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    45. Venta A, Ha C, Vanwoerden S, Newlin E, Strathearn L, Sharp C. Paradoxical Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Trust in Inpatient and Community Adolescents. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2019 Sep-Oct; 48(5):706-715. PMID: 29236527; PMCID: PMC6167185.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    46. Abate A, Marshall K, Sharp C, Venta A. Trauma and Aggression: Investigating the Mediating Role of Mentalizing in Female and Male Inpatient Adolescents. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2017 12; 48(6):881-890. PMID: 28176177.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    47. Venta A, Ball Cooper E, Shmueli-Goetz Y, Sharp C. Artificial neural network coding of the child attachment interview using linguistic data. Attach Hum Dev. 2018 Feb; 20(1):62-83. PMID: 28948864.
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    48. Venta A, Sharp C, Patriquin M, Salas R, Newlin E, Curtis K, Baldwin P, Fowler C, Frueh BC. Amygdala-frontal connectivity predicts internalizing symptom recovery among inpatient adolescents. J Affect Disord. 2018 01 01; 225:453-459. PMID: 28858660.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    49. Marshall K, Venta A, Henderson C, Barker M, Sharp C. Linguistic Analysis as a Method for Assessing Symptoms After Sexual Trauma Among Female Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients. J Child Sex Abus. 2017 Nov-Dec; 26(8):910-926. PMID: 28766998.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    50. Hart JR, Venta A, Sharp C. Attachment and thought problems in an adolescent inpatient sample: The mediational role of theory of mind. Compr Psychiatry. 2017 10; 78:38-47. PMID: 28803040.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    51. Venta A, Hatkevich C, Mellick W, Vanwoerden S, Sharp C. Social cognition mediates the relation between attachment schemas and posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychol Trauma. 2017 01; 9(1):88-95. PMID: 27336218.
      Citations: 17     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    52. Venta A, Jardin C, Kalpakci A, Sharp C. The development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of an attachment Implicit Association Task. Bull Menninger Clin. 2016; 80(3):255-80. PMID: 27583812.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    53. Sharp C, Venta A, Vanwoerden S, Schramm A, Ha C, Newlin E, Reddy R, Fonagy P. First empirical evaluation of the link between attachment, social cognition and borderline features in adolescents. Compr Psychiatry. 2016 Jan; 64:4-11. PMID: 26298843.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    54. Jardin C, Venta A, Newlin E, Ibarra S, Sharp C. Secure Attachment Moderates the Relation of Sexual Trauma With Trauma Symptoms Among Adolescents From an Inpatient Psychiatric Facility. J Interpers Violence. 2017 05; 32(10):1565-1585. PMID: 26058980.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    55. Kalpakci A, Venta A, Sharp C. Beliefs about unmet interpersonal needs mediate the relation between conflictual family relations and borderline personality features in young adult females. Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2014; 1:11. PMID: 26401295; PMCID: PMC4579508.
      Citations: 1     
    56. Sharp C, Kalpakci A, Mellick W, Venta A, Temple JR. First evidence of a prospective relation between avoidance of internal states and borderline personality disorder features in adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015 Mar; 24(3):283-90. PMID: 24958159; PMCID: PMC10754299.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    57. Sharp C, Venta A, Marais L, Skinner D, Lenka M, Serekoane J. First evaluation of a population-based screen to detect emotional-behavior disorders in orphaned children in Sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS Behav. 2014 Jun; 18(6):1174-85. PMID: 24623068; PMCID: PMC4048828.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    Translation:HumansPHPublic Health
    58. Venta A, Sharp C. Attachment organization in suicide prevention research: preliminary findings and future directions in a sample of inpatient adolescents. Crisis. 2014; 35(1):60-6. PMID: 24197486.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    59. Venta A, Shmueli-Goetz Y, Sharp C. Assessing attachment in adolescence: a psychometric study of the child attachment interview. Psychol Assess. 2014 Mar; 26(1):238-55. PMID: 24188145.
      Citations: 24     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    60. Noblin JL, Venta A, Sharp C. The validity of the MSI-BPD among inpatient adolescents. Assessment. 2014 Apr; 21(2):210-7. PMID: 23344914.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    61. Sharp C, Green KL, Yaroslavsky I, Venta A, Zanarini MC, Pettit J. The incremental validity of borderline personality disorder relative to major depressive disorder for suicidal ideation and deliberate self-harm in adolescents. J Pers Disord. 2012 Dec; 26(6):927-38. PMID: 23281677; PMCID: PMC3752939.
      Citations: 16     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    62. Venta A, Hart J, Sharp C. The relation between experiential avoidance, alexithymia and emotion regulation in inpatient adolescents. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2013 Jul; 18(3):398-410. PMID: 22990482.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    63. Sharp C, Ha C, Michonski J, Venta A, Carbone C. Borderline personality disorder in adolescents: evidence in support of the Childhood Interview for DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder in a sample of adolescent inpatients. Compr Psychiatry. 2012 Aug; 53(6):765-74. PMID: 22300904.
      Citations: 48     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    64. Venta A, Kenkel-Mikelonis R, Sharp C. A preliminary study of the relation between trauma symptoms and emerging BPD in adolescent inpatients. Bull Menninger Clin. 2012; 76(2):130-46. PMID: 22686392.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    65. Venta A, Sharp C, Hart J. The relation between anxiety disorder and experiential avoidance in inpatient adolescents. Psychol Assess. 2012 Mar; 24(1):240-8. PMID: 21895380.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    66. Sharp C, Pane H, Ha C, Venta A, Patel AB, Sturek J, Fonagy P. Theory of mind and emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents with borderline traits. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2011 Jun; 50(6):563-573.e1. PMID: 21621140.
      Citations: 123     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    67. Grover KE, Green KL, Pettit JW, Monteith LL, Garza MJ, Venta A. Problem solving moderates the effects of life event stress and chronic stress on suicidal behaviors in adolescence. J Clin Psychol. 2009 Dec; 65(12):1281-90. PMID: 19827110.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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