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Overview

Leslie D. Leve is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and has an extensive publication record spanning psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Their research primarily intersects clinical psychology and public health, with substantial contributions to education and pediatrics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

Leve's work frequently explores subfields such as clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, education, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as general health professions.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leslie D. Leve include Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Jody M. Ganiban, Daniel S. Shaw, Misaki N. Natsuaki, and Cindy T. McEvoy.

They have published extensively in several academic venues, among the most common are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Development and Psychopathology

Representative recent papers by Leslie D. Leve include:

  • The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort, 2023, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Family Environment, Neurodevelopmental Risk, and the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Initiative: Looking Back and Moving Forward, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment in the USA: a retrospective cohort study, 2023, The Lancet Public Health
  • Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age, 2023, PLoS Biology
  • US Childhood Asthma Incidence Rate Patterns From the ECHO Consortium to Identify High-risk Groups for Primary Prevention, 2021, JAMA Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • Childhood Temperament and Family Environment as Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Trajectories From Ages 5 to 17

    Leslie D. Leve;Hyoun K. Kim;Katherine C. Pears

  • Clarifying parent-child reciprocities during early childhood: The early childhood coercion model.

    Laura V. Scaramella;Leslie D. Leve

  • Prevention of behavior problems for children in foster care: Outcomes and mediation effects

    Patricia Chamberlain;Joe Price;Leslie D. Leve;Heidemarie Laurent

  • Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: 2-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Patricia Chamberlain;Leslie D. Leve;David S. DeGarmo

  • Practitioner Review: Children in foster care – vulnerabilities and evidence-based interventions that promote resilience processes

    Leslie D. Leve;Gordon T. Harold;Patricia Chamberlain;John A. Landsverk

  • Effects of a foster parent training intervention on placement changes of children in foster care.

    Joseph M. Price;Patricia Chamberlain;John Landsverk;John B. Reid

  • Improving Executive Function and its Neurobiological Mechanisms through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention: Advances within the Field of Developmental Neuroscience

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Lizhu Yang;Leslie D. Leve;Gordon T. Harold

  • Intervention Outcomes for Girls Referred from Juvenile Justice: Effects on Delinquency

    Leslie D. Leve;Patricia Chamberlain;John B. Reid

  • Biological and rearing mother influences on child ADHD symptoms: revisiting the developmental interface between nature and nurture

    Gordon Thomas Harold;Gordon Thomas Harold;Leslie D. Leve;Douglas Barrett;Kit Elam

  • Association with delinquent peers: intervention effects for youth in the juvenile justice system.

    Leslie D. Leve;Patricia Chamberlain

  • Coercive family processes: A replication and extension of Patterson’s coercion model

    J. Mark Eddy;Leslie D. Leve;Beverly I. Fagot

  • Adolescent Girls' Offending and Health-Risking Sexual Behavior: The Predictive Role of Trauma

    Dana K. Smith;Leslie D. Leve;Patricia Chamberlain

  • Consensus Report on Impulsive Aggression as a Symptom across Diagnostic Categories in Child Psychiatry: Implications for Medication Studies.

    Peter S. Jensen;Eric A. Youngstrom;Hans Steiner;Robert L. Findling

  • Bridging the divide: openness in adoption and postadoption psychosocial adjustment among birth and adoptive parents.

    Xiaojia Ge;Misaki N. Natsuaki;David M. Martin;Leslie D. Leve

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring conduct problems: evidence from 3 independent genetically sensitive research designs

    Darya Gaysina;David M. Fergusson;Leslie D. Leve;John Horwood

  • Female Juvenile Offenders: Defining an Early-Onset Pathway for Delinquency

    Leslie D. Leve;Patricia Chamberlain

  • Heritable and Nonheritable Pathways to Early Callous-Unemotional Behaviors.

    Luke W. Hyde;Rebecca Waller;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw

  • A Randomized Evaluation of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care: Effects on School Attendance and Homework Completion in Juvenile Justice Girls:

    Leslie D. Leve;Patricia Chamberlain

  • Teacher Ratings of Externalizing Behavior at School Entry for Boys and Girls: Similar Early Predictors and Different Correlates

    Beverly I. Fagot;Leslie D. Leve

  • Development and Psychopathology

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;C. Emily Durbin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Jenae M. Neiderhiser Pennsylvania State University
David Reiss
David Reiss Yale University
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Misaki N. Natsuaki
Misaki N. Natsuaki University of California, Riverside
Jody M. Ganiban
Jody M. Ganiban George Washington University
Gordon Thomas Harold
Gordon Thomas Harold University of Cambridge
Patricia Chamberlain
Patricia Chamberlain University of Oregon
Laura V. Scaramella
Laura V. Scaramella University of Arizona
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Xiaojia Ge
Xiaojia Ge University of Minnesota

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