Leila Beckwith
Biographic Data
| ID | 110626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leila Beckwith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leila |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckwith |
| SIGNATURE | BECKWITH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1411-4351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring how sand infill is transforming Phnom Penh’s Tompun-Cheung Ek wetland
We examine the loss of wetland spaces for city expansion. • Profound societal and ecological inequalities emerge in places of sand infill. • Urban farmers struggle to grow their aquatic crops; many are no longer grown. • Youth have turned to garbage picking. • Significant ecosystem services are lost with sand infill. This paper focuses on the social-ecological consequences that have emerged as sand infill has transformed Phnom Penh’s Tompun-Cheun…
Learning from the Policy and Practice of Green City Development in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The complex challenge of managing urban growth and development in the context of climate and environmental change has led to a proliferation of policy discourses related to the ‘green city’. While useful as a buzzword, it is argued that green city discourses often overlook or even mask questions of social and environmental justice. This case study of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, shows that the presence of green and sustainable city discourses in policym…
Listening to Experiences of Environmental Change in Rural Vietnam: An Intergenerational Approach
Locally led adaptation is increasingly promoted as an important strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change. However, the understanding of rural realities in the Global South is still limited by insufficient information about the complex and dynamic relationships between rural communities and their environment. These relationships are influenced both by the material aspects of place and by the social and cultural dynamics that shape ide…
Youth participation in environmental action in Vietnam: Learning citizenship in liminal spaces
Youth participation has become an important element of environmental governance and is also a way that young people learn about the expectations of citizenship. In the global South, young people are confronted with multiple understandings of citizenship as international development organisations may introduce citizenship in a liberal, democratic framing which may differ from national citizenship norms. In Vietnam, state agencies have a history of…
No room to manoeuvre: Bringing together political ecology and resilience to understand community-based adaptation decision making
While community-led adaptation is an increasingly important subject in both academic and development circles, the politics behind adaptation decision making receives less attention. Specifically, an absence of adaptive actions is often understood as maladaptation. This study shows how incorporating lessons from political ecology such as an analysis of historically produced socio-political structures can add value to a resilience perspective by ma…
Kaminski et al. Respond
AffiliationsJennifer W. Kaminski, Ruth Perou, Susanna N. Visser, D. Camille Smith, and Melissa L. Danielson are with National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Keith G. Scott is with the Linda Ray Intervention Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL. Leila Beckwith and Judy Howard are with the Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Los Angeles
Behavioral and Socioemotional Outcomes Through Age 5 Years of the Legacy for Children Public Health Approach to Improving Developmental Outcomes Among Children Born Into Poverty
Objectives. We evaluated Legacy for Children, a public health strategy to improve child health and development among low-income families. Methods. Mothers were recruited prenatally or at the birth of a child to participate in Legacy parenting groups for 3 to 5 years. A set of 2 randomized trials in Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles, California, between 2001 and 2009 assessed 574 mother-child pairs when the children were 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 mo…
Legacy for Children TM: A pair of randomized controlled trials of a public health model to improve developmental outcomes among children in poverty
NCT00164697
Infant-Caregiver Interaction in Kenya and the United States: The Importance of Multiple Caregivers and Adequate Comparison Samples
This study explores infant-caregiver interaction in two cultures, replicating and expanding on previous cross-cultural comparisons. For this study, 132 Kenyan infants, 112 preterm U.S. infants, and 27 full-term U.S. infants were observed with their caregivers during multiple home observations. Results expand on previous work in Kenya, illustrating the importance of multiple caregivers in the lives of infants. When all care- givers are taken into …
Maternal psychopathology and attachment in toddlers of heavy cocaine‐using mothers
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among maternal psychopathology, early sensitive caregiving, and security of attachment in a sample of cocaine‐using women from environments with high contextual risks that include poverty, low educational attainment, minority status, and single parenthood. Thirty‐five women and their offspring participated in the study. Maternal psychopathology, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, was …
Maternal sensitivity during infancy and subsequent life events relate to attachment representation at early adulthood
Prediction of Low and Normal School Achievement in Early Adolescents Born Preterm
The study examined low school achievement in a group of early adolescents born preterm, who had participated in a prospective longitudinal study from birth through 12 years of age. Multivariate analyses were used to compare adolescents with low school achievement, of normal-or-above intelligence, to adolescents with no achievement problems. Significant group differences were found in a number of domains in early adolescence, including verbal comp…
Dyadic processes between mothers and preterm infants: Development at ages 2 to 5 years
Dyadic processes between mothers and preterm infants: Development at ages 2 to 5 years
In order to identify antecedents to cognitive, language, and social competence from 2 to 5 years of age in preterm children at biological and social risk, this study used multiple procedures, administered in the laboratory, at 13 and 20 months, to measure components of the social interactions between 51 mothers and their preterm infants. Two variables, maternal responsiveness to infant vocalization and infant irritability, were found to be signif…
A collaborative effort to study mother—child interaction in three risk groups: Social risk mother, adolescent mother, preterm infant
This paper describes the collaborative efforts of three intervention projects with similar data sets on high-risk populations of mothers and their children at 13 and 20 months. The three projects collected data on a total of 190 dyads from three risk groups: adolescent mothers and their infants, high social risk mothers and their infants, and high social risk mothers and their preterm infants. The authors define the common set of measures and res…
Spontaneous play in two-year-olds born to substance-abusing mothers
The aim of the study was to determine if spontaneous play was altered in 2-year-olds born to polysubstance-abusing mothers. The study is part of a longitudinal research project of chronic substance-abusing mothers and their children living in poverty in the inner city of Los Angeles, identified in the hospital at birth by positive urine-toxicology screens, and compared to non-substance-abusing mothers and their children living in the same geograp…
Maternal responsiveness with preterm infants and later competency
Maternal responsiveness during infancy is associated with children's intellectual and social competence at age twelve
Early intervention in the family system: A framework and review
A framework for understanding the effect of early intervention on family structure and functioning is presented. The framework uses five sets of variables to characterize families: Their ecology; and the values, roles, personalities, and interactions of family members. Twenty research studies that met criteria of having comparison/control groups, beginning intervention either prenatally or during the first 3 months of infancy, and directing inter…
Infant attention in relation to intellectual abilities in childhood
Maternal language in infancy
Maternal sensitivity during infancy and subsequent life events relate to attachment representation at early adulthood
Maternal language in infancy
Behavioral and Socioemotional Outcomes Through Age 5 Years of the Legacy for Children Public Health Approach to Improving Developmental Outcomes Among Children Born Into Poverty
Objectives. We evaluated Legacy for Children, a public health strategy to improve child health and development among low-income families. Methods. Mothers were recruited prenatally or at the birth of a child to participate in Legacy parenting groups for 3 to 5 years. A set of 2 randomized trials in Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles, California, between 2001 and 2009 assessed 574 mother-child pairs when the children were 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 mo…
Maternal psychopathology and attachment in toddlers of heavy cocaine‐using mothers
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among maternal psychopathology, early sensitive caregiving, and security of attachment in a sample of cocaine‐using women from environments with high contextual risks that include poverty, low educational attainment, minority status, and single parenthood. Thirty‐five women and their offspring participated in the study. Maternal psychopathology, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, was …
Infant attention in relation to intellectual abilities in childhood
Youth participation in environmental action in Vietnam: Learning citizenship in liminal spaces
Youth participation has become an important element of environmental governance and is also a way that young people learn about the expectations of citizenship. In the global South, young people are confronted with multiple understandings of citizenship as international development organisations may introduce citizenship in a liberal, democratic framing which may differ from national citizenship norms. In Vietnam, state agencies have a history of…
Infant-Caregiver Interaction in Kenya and the United States: The Importance of Multiple Caregivers and Adequate Comparison Samples
This study explores infant-caregiver interaction in two cultures, replicating and expanding on previous cross-cultural comparisons. For this study, 132 Kenyan infants, 112 preterm U.S. infants, and 27 full-term U.S. infants were observed with their caregivers during multiple home observations. Results expand on previous work in Kenya, illustrating the importance of multiple caregivers in the lives of infants. When all care- givers are taken into …
Listening to Experiences of Environmental Change in Rural Vietnam: An Intergenerational Approach
Locally led adaptation is increasingly promoted as an important strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change. However, the understanding of rural realities in the Global South is still limited by insufficient information about the complex and dynamic relationships between rural communities and their environment. These relationships are influenced both by the material aspects of place and by the social and cultural dynamics that shape ide…
Dyadic processes between mothers and preterm infants: Development at ages 2 to 5 years
In order to identify antecedents to cognitive, language, and social competence from 2 to 5 years of age in preterm children at biological and social risk, this study used multiple procedures, administered in the laboratory, at 13 and 20 months, to measure components of the social interactions between 51 mothers and their preterm infants. Two variables, maternal responsiveness to infant vocalization and infant irritability, were found to be signif…
Maternal language in infancy
Infant attention in relation to intellectual abilities in childhood
Early intervention in the family system: A framework and review
A framework for understanding the effect of early intervention on family structure and functioning is presented. The framework uses five sets of variables to characterize families: Their ecology; and the values, roles, personalities, and interactions of family members. Twenty research studies that met criteria of having comparison/control groups, beginning intervention either prenatally or during the first 3 months of infancy, and directing inter…
Maternal responsiveness with preterm infants and later competency
Maternal responsiveness during infancy is associated with children's intellectual and social competence at age twelve
Spontaneous play in two-year-olds born to substance-abusing mothers
The aim of the study was to determine if spontaneous play was altered in 2-year-olds born to polysubstance-abusing mothers. The study is part of a longitudinal research project of chronic substance-abusing mothers and their children living in poverty in the inner city of Los Angeles, identified in the hospital at birth by positive urine-toxicology screens, and compared to non-substance-abusing mothers and their children living in the same geograp…
Prediction of Low and Normal School Achievement in Early Adolescents Born Preterm
The study examined low school achievement in a group of early adolescents born preterm, who had participated in a prospective longitudinal study from birth through 12 years of age. Multivariate analyses were used to compare adolescents with low school achievement, of normal-or-above intelligence, to adolescents with no achievement problems. Significant group differences were found in a number of domains in early adolescence, including verbal comp…
Dyadic processes between mothers and preterm infants: Development at ages 2 to 5 years
Dyadic processes between mothers and preterm infants: Development at ages 2 to 5 years
In order to identify antecedents to cognitive, language, and social competence from 2 to 5 years of age in preterm children at biological and social risk, this study used multiple procedures, administered in the laboratory, at 13 and 20 months, to measure components of the social interactions between 51 mothers and their preterm infants. Two variables, maternal responsiveness to infant vocalization and infant irritability, were found to be signif…
A collaborative effort to study mother—child interaction in three risk groups: Social risk mother, adolescent mother, preterm infant
This paper describes the collaborative efforts of three intervention projects with similar data sets on high-risk populations of mothers and their children at 13 and 20 months. The three projects collected data on a total of 190 dyads from three risk groups: adolescent mothers and their infants, high social risk mothers and their infants, and high social risk mothers and their preterm infants. The authors define the common set of measures and res…
Maternal sensitivity during infancy and subsequent life events relate to attachment representation at early adulthood
Maternal psychopathology and attachment in toddlers of heavy cocaine‐using mothers
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among maternal psychopathology, early sensitive caregiving, and security of attachment in a sample of cocaine‐using women from environments with high contextual risks that include poverty, low educational attainment, minority status, and single parenthood. Thirty‐five women and their offspring participated in the study. Maternal psychopathology, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, was …
Infant-Caregiver Interaction in Kenya and the United States: The Importance of Multiple Caregivers and Adequate Comparison Samples
This study explores infant-caregiver interaction in two cultures, replicating and expanding on previous cross-cultural comparisons. For this study, 132 Kenyan infants, 112 preterm U.S. infants, and 27 full-term U.S. infants were observed with their caregivers during multiple home observations. Results expand on previous work in Kenya, illustrating the importance of multiple caregivers in the lives of infants. When all care- givers are taken into …
Legacy for Children TM: A pair of randomized controlled trials of a public health model to improve developmental outcomes among children in poverty
NCT00164697
Kaminski et al. Respond
AffiliationsJennifer W. Kaminski, Ruth Perou, Susanna N. Visser, D. Camille Smith, and Melissa L. Danielson are with National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Keith G. Scott is with the Linda Ray Intervention Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL. Leila Beckwith and Judy Howard are with the Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Los Angeles
Behavioral and Socioemotional Outcomes Through Age 5 Years of the Legacy for Children Public Health Approach to Improving Developmental Outcomes Among Children Born Into Poverty
Objectives. We evaluated Legacy for Children, a public health strategy to improve child health and development among low-income families. Methods. Mothers were recruited prenatally or at the birth of a child to participate in Legacy parenting groups for 3 to 5 years. A set of 2 randomized trials in Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles, California, between 2001 and 2009 assessed 574 mother-child pairs when the children were 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 mo…
No room to manoeuvre: Bringing together political ecology and resilience to understand community-based adaptation decision making
While community-led adaptation is an increasingly important subject in both academic and development circles, the politics behind adaptation decision making receives less attention. Specifically, an absence of adaptive actions is often understood as maladaptation. This study shows how incorporating lessons from political ecology such as an analysis of historically produced socio-political structures can add value to a resilience perspective by ma…
Listening to Experiences of Environmental Change in Rural Vietnam: An Intergenerational Approach
Locally led adaptation is increasingly promoted as an important strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change. However, the understanding of rural realities in the Global South is still limited by insufficient information about the complex and dynamic relationships between rural communities and their environment. These relationships are influenced both by the material aspects of place and by the social and cultural dynamics that shape ide…
Youth participation in environmental action in Vietnam: Learning citizenship in liminal spaces
Youth participation has become an important element of environmental governance and is also a way that young people learn about the expectations of citizenship. In the global South, young people are confronted with multiple understandings of citizenship as international development organisations may introduce citizenship in a liberal, democratic framing which may differ from national citizenship norms. In Vietnam, state agencies have a history of…
Learning from the Policy and Practice of Green City Development in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The complex challenge of managing urban growth and development in the context of climate and environmental change has led to a proliferation of policy discourses related to the ‘green city’. While useful as a buzzword, it is argued that green city discourses often overlook or even mask questions of social and environmental justice. This case study of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, shows that the presence of green and sustainable city discourses in policym…
Exploring how sand infill is transforming Phnom Penh’s Tompun-Cheung Ek wetland
We examine the loss of wetland spaces for city expansion. • Profound societal and ecological inequalities emerge in places of sand infill. • Urban farmers struggle to grow their aquatic crops; many are no longer grown. • Youth have turned to garbage picking. • Significant ecosystem services are lost with sand infill. This paper focuses on the social-ecological consequences that have emerged as sand infill has transformed Phnom Penh’s Tompun-Cheun…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Infant Development and Preterm Care (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works)