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Marjorie Beeghly is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research focuses on a range of topics related to child development and family dynamics. Key topics covered in their publications include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Marjorie Beeghly has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Emerging patterns of infant regulatory behavior in the Still-Face paradigm at 3 and 9 months predict mother-infant attachment at 12 months" (2020) published in Attachment & Human Development
  • "School support, chaos, routines, and parents' mental health during COVID-19 remote schooling." (2021) published in School Psychology
  • "Household Chaos and Early Childhood Behavior Problems: The Moderating Role of Mother-Child Reciprocity in Lower-Income Families" (2021) published in Family Relations
  • "A self-comfort oriented pattern of regulatory behavior and avoidant attachment are more likely among infants born moderate-to-late preterm" (2021) published in Infancy
  • "Maternal caregiving representations of the infant in the first year of life: Associations with prenatal and concurrent reflective functioning" (2021) published in Infant Mental Health Journal

Their frequent coauthors include Marina Fuertes, Christopher J. Trentacosta, Miguel Barbosa, Moriah E. Thomason, and Rita Almeida.

Publications by Marjorie Beeghly have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • School Psychology

Best Publications

  • From First Words to Grammar: Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms

    Elizabeth Bates;Inge Bretherton;Lynn S. Snyder;Marjorie Beeghly

  • Talking About Internal States: The Acquisition of an Explicit Theory of Mind

    Inge Bretherton;Marjorie Beeghly

  • Child maltreatment, attachment, and the self system: Emergence of an internal state lexicon in toddlers at high social risk

    Marjorie Beeghly;Dante Cicchetti

  • Infants' Meaning-Making and the Development of Mental Health Problems.

    Ed Tronick;Marjorie Beeghly

  • The self in transition: Infancy to childhood.

    Dante Cicchetti;Marjorie Beeghly

  • The maternal lifestyle study: cognitive, motor, and behavioral outcomes of cocaine-exposed and opiate-exposed infants through three years of age.

    Daniel S. Messinger;Charles R. Bauer;Abhik Das;Ron Seifer

  • Symbolic development in maltreated youngsters: an organizational perspective.

    Dante Cicchetti;Marjorie Beeghly

  • Maternal reflective functioning among mothers with childhood maltreatment histories: links to sensitive parenting and infant attachment security

    Ann M. Stacks;Maria Muzik;Kristyn Wong;Marjorie Beeghly

  • Children with Down syndrome : a developmental perspective

    Dante Cicchetti;Marjorie Beeghly

  • Communicative functioning in maltreated toddlers.

    Wendy J. Coster;Michelle S. Gersten;Marjorie Beeghly;Dante Cicchetti

  • Stability and change in level of maternal depressive symptomatology during the first postpartum year.

    Marjorie Beeghly;Marjorie Beeghly;M.Katherine Weinberg;M.Katherine Weinberg;Karen L Olson;Karen L Olson;Henrietta Kernan

  • Making up is hard to do, especially for mothers with high levels of depressive symptoms and their infant sons.

    M. Katherine Weinberg;Karen L. Olson;Marjorie Beeghly;Edward Z. Tronick

  • Prevalence, Stability, and Socio-Demographic Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Black Mothers During the First 18 Months Postpartum

    Marjorie Beeghly;Karen L. Olson;M. Katherine Weinberg;Snaltze Charlot Pierre

  • Mothers' internal state language to toddlers

    Marjorie Beeghly;Inge Bretherton;Carolyn B. Mervis

  • Effects of prenatal exposure to cocaine in early infancy: Toxic effects on the process of mutual regulation

    Marjorie Beeghly;Edward Z. Tronick

  • Longitudinal association between infant disorganized attachment and childhood posttraumatic stress symptoms

    Helen Z. Macdonald;Marjorie Beeghly;Wanda Grant-Knight;Marilyn Augustyn

  • Maternal parenting predicts infant biobehavioral regulation among women with a history of childhood maltreatment.

    Cecilia Martinez-Torteya;Carolyn J. Dayton;Marjorie Beeghly;Julia S. Seng

  • Subsyndromal depressive symptoms and major depression in postpartum women.

    M. Katherine Weinberg;Edward Z. Tronick;Marjorie Beeghly;Karen L. Olson

  • Level of prenatal cocaine exposure and scores on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development: modifying effects of caregiver, early intervention, and birth weight.

    Deborah A. Frank;Ruth Rose Jacobs;Marjorie Beeghly;Marilyn Augustyn

  • Early resilience in the context of parent-infant relationships: a social developmental perspective.

    Marjorie Beeghly;Ed Tronick

  • An organizational approach to symbolic development in children with down syndrome

    Marjorie Beeghly;Dante Cicchetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Maria Muzik
Maria Muzik University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Katherine L. Rosenblum
Katherine L. Rosenblum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Inge Bretherton
Inge Bretherton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cindy H. Liu
Cindy H. Liu Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ross A. Thompson
Ross A. Thompson University of California, Davis
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami
Thomas S. Weisner
Thomas S. Weisner University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Barry M. Lester
Barry M. Lester Brown University

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