Celia Beckett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5508985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celia Beckett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celia |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckett |
| SIGNATURE | BECKETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing a process for assessment of the emotional and behavioural needs of “looked after” children: The Five Rivers model
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development process of building an assessment model to assess the emotional and behavioural needs of “looked after children”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a technical paper developing and evaluating a process for comprehensively assessing children ' s needs using a combination of three existing tools. Findings – The paper identifies a model to assess “looked after” children and …
Challenges recruiting families with children at risk of anti‐social behaviour into intervention trials: Lessons from the Helping Children Achieve (HCA) study
Purpose The Helping Children Achieve study is a randomised controlled trial designed to test the effectiveness of parenting interventions for children at risk of anti‐social behaviour. The paper aims to examine the challenges in recruitment to the HCA trial. Design/methodology/approach The study is on‐going and is being conducted at two sites: an inner city London borough and a city in the South West of England. In total, 395 participants consent…
Parents’ evaluation of adoption success: A follow-up study of intercountry and domestic adoptions
Parents of 165 children adopted from Romania and 52 children adopted from within the United Kingdom rated the success of the adoptions when the children were 11 years old. As was the case at two earlier study waves, satisfaction was found to be extremely high. Both positive and negative assessments were generally stable between ages 6 and 11, although for the children who had more problems there was an increase in negative evaluation, albeit with…
The Experience of Adoption (2): The Association between Communicative Openness and Self-Esteem in Adoption
A study of the views of two groups of 11-year-old adopted children (one adopted as babies within the UK, n = 47, the other adopted from Romania, aged between two and 43 months, n = 133) indicates that parents underestimate the difficulty that their children have in talking about adoption. Children who found this harder experienced lower self-esteem at age 11 and were also more likely to feel different from their adoptive families, and both these …
The Importance of Cultural Identity in Adoption: A Study of Young People Adopted from Romania
This article by Celia Beckett, Amanda Hawkins, Michael Rutter, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Christine Groothues, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Edmund Sonuga-Barke examines attitudes regarding cultural and national identity in a group of 165 young people adopted from Romania. The attitudes of their adoptive parents are also explored. The adoptive parents were interviewed over three or four time periods, when their children were 4/6, 11 and 15 …
Communicative Openness About Adoption and Interest in Contact in a Sample of Domestic and Intercountry Adolescent Adoptees
Adolescent intercountry (n = 122) and domestic (n = 40) adoptees and their adoptive parents were asked about their views on communicative openness. The adoptees were also asked for their thoughts on birth parents and contact. A modest association between communicative openness and feelings about adoptive status and self-esteem was found. Girls were more interested in many aspects of their adoptions than boys. Compared with the situation at 11 yea…
The Experience of Adoption (1) A Study of Intercountry and Domestic Adoption from the child's point of view
Amanda Hawkins, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Michael Rutter compared views about adoption for two groups of 11-year-old children (n = 180). The team's analyses compared the views of children according to their pre-adoption background: UK domestic adoptees placed before the age of six months versus intercountry adoptees who had experienced extreme deprivatio…
Normality and impairment following profound early institutional deprivation: A longitudinal follow-up into early adolescence
Longitudinal analyses on normal versus impaired functioning across 7 domains were conducted in children who had experienced profound institutional deprivation up to the age of 42 months and were adopted from Romania into U.K. families. Comparisons were made with noninstitutionalized children adopted from Romania and with nondeprived within-U.K. adoptees placed before the age of 6 months. Specifically, the validity of the assessment, the degree of…
Service use by families with children adopted from Romania
Service use between six and 11 years of age is reported for children adopted from Romania into UK families, and compared with that for children adopted within the UK before six months of age. Between six and 11, there had been only one adoption breakdown, and about one in ten couples experienced a marital breakdown. Apart from continuing concerns over hepatitis B carrier status in a small number of children, physical health problems were not a pr…
Health Problems in Children Adopted from Romania: Association with Duration of Deprivation and Behavioural Problems
This paper by Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues, Thomas G O'Connor, Michael Rutter and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team* examines the pattern of health problems as reported by parents in a group of children adopted from Romania and relates these findings to outcomes at age six. The study is based on a representative sample of 165 children, 144 of whom had experienced institutional deprivation, and a UK adoptee gro…
Successful Outcomes: A Follow-Up Study of Children Adopted from Romania into the UK
Adoption outcomes need to be assessed from both child and parental perspectives. This paper represents part of a wider study of 165 children, adopted into the UK from Romania, and a comparison group of 52 domestic adoptions. It focuses on outcome from the parents' point of view, in particular, the level of parental satisfaction, and considers possible risk factors for poor outcome. The level of satisfaction in both groups is very high and the mai…
Infant Adoption in England: Policy and Practice at Placement
Following on from their article, ‘Infant adoption in England: a longitudinal account of social and cognitive progress' ( Adoption & Fostering 24:3, 2000), Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett, Christine Groothues and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team focus attention on the same group in relation to the policies and practices of social services and voluntary adoption agencies at placement. From interviews with adoptive mothers of a sample …
Infant Adoption in England: A Longitudinal Account of Social and Cognitive Progress
In many ways, within-country infant adoptions are becoming a thing of the past. However, several factors arising from this study of social and cognitive progress in children adopted as babies may be equally salient for older-placed children, especially in middle childhood and early adolescence. From a sample of 52 children in the same number of families, placed before the age of six months, Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett, Christine Groothues and the…
The Role of Social Workers in Intercountry Adoption: An Analysis of the Experience of Adopters from Romania
People who adopted children from Romania between 1990 and 1992 experienced considerable difficulties arranging the adoptions, both in Romania and the UK. It is not known how many more potential adopters were unsuccessful. Based on a study of 148 families adopting 165 children, Celia Beckett, Diana Bredenkamp, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team shed light on the difficulties encountered in Engl…
Effects of qualities of early institutional care on cognitive attainment
The adoption of children reared in poor quality Romanian institutions provided a "natural experiment" to determine whether psychological privation is the cause of later deficits. Low IQ at six years was strongly related to the duration of institutional care, with malnutrition having a weaker effect. After taking both into account, there was an additional effect of a particularly marked lack of individualized care
Health Committee Second Report on Children Looked after by Local Authorities
Adopting from Romania: The Role of Siblings in Adjustment
Setting Standards for Medical Advice to Looked after Children
The Outcome of Adoptions from Romania Predictors of Parental Satisfaction
In this study Christine Groothues, Celia Beckett and Thomas O'Connor examine the outcome of adoptions of 117 children from Romania and a comparison group of 52 UK adopted children, and consider associated factors in the context of previous research findings. The children were assessed at four years and their mothers interviewed; the children had been with the adoptive family for at least two years. Overall the outcome in both groups was very posi…
New Adoption Agency Regulations: Implications for Medical Advisers
Revised Recommended Fees for Medical Examinations Required in Adoption and Fostering
Are Children Still Waiting? Recent Developments and the Impact of the Children Act 1989
Normality and impairment following profound early institutional deprivation: A longitudinal follow-up into early adolescence
Longitudinal analyses on normal versus impaired functioning across 7 domains were conducted in children who had experienced profound institutional deprivation up to the age of 42 months and were adopted from Romania into U.K. families. Comparisons were made with noninstitutionalized children adopted from Romania and with nondeprived within-U.K. adoptees placed before the age of 6 months. Specifically, the validity of the assessment, the degree of…
Communicative Openness About Adoption and Interest in Contact in a Sample of Domestic and Intercountry Adolescent Adoptees
Adolescent intercountry (n = 122) and domestic (n = 40) adoptees and their adoptive parents were asked about their views on communicative openness. The adoptees were also asked for their thoughts on birth parents and contact. A modest association between communicative openness and feelings about adoptive status and self-esteem was found. Girls were more interested in many aspects of their adoptions than boys. Compared with the situation at 11 yea…
The Experience of Adoption (1) A Study of Intercountry and Domestic Adoption from the child's point of view
Amanda Hawkins, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Michael Rutter compared views about adoption for two groups of 11-year-old children (n = 180). The team's analyses compared the views of children according to their pre-adoption background: UK domestic adoptees placed before the age of six months versus intercountry adoptees who had experienced extreme deprivatio…
The Outcome of Adoptions from Romania Predictors of Parental Satisfaction
In this study Christine Groothues, Celia Beckett and Thomas O'Connor examine the outcome of adoptions of 117 children from Romania and a comparison group of 52 UK adopted children, and consider associated factors in the context of previous research findings. The children were assessed at four years and their mothers interviewed; the children had been with the adoptive family for at least two years. Overall the outcome in both groups was very posi…
The Role of Social Workers in Intercountry Adoption: An Analysis of the Experience of Adopters from Romania
People who adopted children from Romania between 1990 and 1992 experienced considerable difficulties arranging the adoptions, both in Romania and the UK. It is not known how many more potential adopters were unsuccessful. Based on a study of 148 families adopting 165 children, Celia Beckett, Diana Bredenkamp, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team shed light on the difficulties encountered in Engl…
The Experience of Adoption (2): The Association between Communicative Openness and Self-Esteem in Adoption
A study of the views of two groups of 11-year-old adopted children (one adopted as babies within the UK, n = 47, the other adopted from Romania, aged between two and 43 months, n = 133) indicates that parents underestimate the difficulty that their children have in talking about adoption. Children who found this harder experienced lower self-esteem at age 11 and were also more likely to feel different from their adoptive families, and both these …
Successful Outcomes: A Follow-Up Study of Children Adopted from Romania into the UK
Adoption outcomes need to be assessed from both child and parental perspectives. This paper represents part of a wider study of 165 children, adopted into the UK from Romania, and a comparison group of 52 domestic adoptions. It focuses on outcome from the parents' point of view, in particular, the level of parental satisfaction, and considers possible risk factors for poor outcome. The level of satisfaction in both groups is very high and the mai…
Infant Adoption in England: A Longitudinal Account of Social and Cognitive Progress
In many ways, within-country infant adoptions are becoming a thing of the past. However, several factors arising from this study of social and cognitive progress in children adopted as babies may be equally salient for older-placed children, especially in middle childhood and early adolescence. From a sample of 52 children in the same number of families, placed before the age of six months, Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett, Christine Groothues and the…
Service use by families with children adopted from Romania
Service use between six and 11 years of age is reported for children adopted from Romania into UK families, and compared with that for children adopted within the UK before six months of age. Between six and 11, there had been only one adoption breakdown, and about one in ten couples experienced a marital breakdown. Apart from continuing concerns over hepatitis B carrier status in a small number of children, physical health problems were not a pr…
Health Problems in Children Adopted from Romania: Association with Duration of Deprivation and Behavioural Problems
This paper by Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues, Thomas G O'Connor, Michael Rutter and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team* examines the pattern of health problems as reported by parents in a group of children adopted from Romania and relates these findings to outcomes at age six. The study is based on a representative sample of 165 children, 144 of whom had experienced institutional deprivation, and a UK adoptee gro…
Infant Adoption in England: Policy and Practice at Placement
Following on from their article, ‘Infant adoption in England: a longitudinal account of social and cognitive progress' ( Adoption & Fostering 24:3, 2000), Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett, Christine Groothues and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team focus attention on the same group in relation to the policies and practices of social services and voluntary adoption agencies at placement. From interviews with adoptive mothers of a sample …
The Importance of Cultural Identity in Adoption: A Study of Young People Adopted from Romania
This article by Celia Beckett, Amanda Hawkins, Michael Rutter, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Christine Groothues, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Edmund Sonuga-Barke examines attitudes regarding cultural and national identity in a group of 165 young people adopted from Romania. The attitudes of their adoptive parents are also explored. The adoptive parents were interviewed over three or four time periods, when their children were 4/6, 11 and 15 …
Health Committee Second Report on Children Looked after by Local Authorities
Adopting from Romania: The Role of Siblings in Adjustment
Are Children Still Waiting? Recent Developments and the Impact of the Children Act 1989
New Adoption Agency Regulations: Implications for Medical Advisers
Revised Recommended Fees for Medical Examinations Required in Adoption and Fostering
Health Committee Second Report on Children Looked after by Local Authorities
Adopting from Romania: The Role of Siblings in Adjustment
Setting Standards for Medical Advice to Looked after Children
The Outcome of Adoptions from Romania Predictors of Parental Satisfaction
In this study Christine Groothues, Celia Beckett and Thomas O'Connor examine the outcome of adoptions of 117 children from Romania and a comparison group of 52 UK adopted children, and consider associated factors in the context of previous research findings. The children were assessed at four years and their mothers interviewed; the children had been with the adoptive family for at least two years. Overall the outcome in both groups was very posi…
The Role of Social Workers in Intercountry Adoption: An Analysis of the Experience of Adopters from Romania
People who adopted children from Romania between 1990 and 1992 experienced considerable difficulties arranging the adoptions, both in Romania and the UK. It is not known how many more potential adopters were unsuccessful. Based on a study of 148 families adopting 165 children, Celia Beckett, Diana Bredenkamp, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team shed light on the difficulties encountered in Engl…
Effects of qualities of early institutional care on cognitive attainment
The adoption of children reared in poor quality Romanian institutions provided a "natural experiment" to determine whether psychological privation is the cause of later deficits. Low IQ at six years was strongly related to the duration of institutional care, with malnutrition having a weaker effect. After taking both into account, there was an additional effect of a particularly marked lack of individualized care
Infant Adoption in England: Policy and Practice at Placement
Following on from their article, ‘Infant adoption in England: a longitudinal account of social and cognitive progress' ( Adoption & Fostering 24:3, 2000), Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett, Christine Groothues and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team focus attention on the same group in relation to the policies and practices of social services and voluntary adoption agencies at placement. From interviews with adoptive mothers of a sample …
Infant Adoption in England: A Longitudinal Account of Social and Cognitive Progress
In many ways, within-country infant adoptions are becoming a thing of the past. However, several factors arising from this study of social and cognitive progress in children adopted as babies may be equally salient for older-placed children, especially in middle childhood and early adolescence. From a sample of 52 children in the same number of families, placed before the age of six months, Jenny Castle, Celia Beckett, Christine Groothues and the…
Successful Outcomes: A Follow-Up Study of Children Adopted from Romania into the UK
Adoption outcomes need to be assessed from both child and parental perspectives. This paper represents part of a wider study of 165 children, adopted into the UK from Romania, and a comparison group of 52 domestic adoptions. It focuses on outcome from the parents' point of view, in particular, the level of parental satisfaction, and considers possible risk factors for poor outcome. The level of satisfaction in both groups is very high and the mai…
Health Problems in Children Adopted from Romania: Association with Duration of Deprivation and Behavioural Problems
This paper by Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues, Thomas G O'Connor, Michael Rutter and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team* examines the pattern of health problems as reported by parents in a group of children adopted from Romania and relates these findings to outcomes at age six. The study is based on a representative sample of 165 children, 144 of whom had experienced institutional deprivation, and a UK adoptee gro…
Service use by families with children adopted from Romania
Service use between six and 11 years of age is reported for children adopted from Romania into UK families, and compared with that for children adopted within the UK before six months of age. Between six and 11, there had been only one adoption breakdown, and about one in ten couples experienced a marital breakdown. Apart from continuing concerns over hepatitis B carrier status in a small number of children, physical health problems were not a pr…
Communicative Openness About Adoption and Interest in Contact in a Sample of Domestic and Intercountry Adolescent Adoptees
Adolescent intercountry (n = 122) and domestic (n = 40) adoptees and their adoptive parents were asked about their views on communicative openness. The adoptees were also asked for their thoughts on birth parents and contact. A modest association between communicative openness and feelings about adoptive status and self-esteem was found. Girls were more interested in many aspects of their adoptions than boys. Compared with the situation at 11 yea…
The Experience of Adoption (1) A Study of Intercountry and Domestic Adoption from the child's point of view
Amanda Hawkins, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Christine Groothues, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Michael Rutter compared views about adoption for two groups of 11-year-old children (n = 180). The team's analyses compared the views of children according to their pre-adoption background: UK domestic adoptees placed before the age of six months versus intercountry adoptees who had experienced extreme deprivatio…
Normality and impairment following profound early institutional deprivation: A longitudinal follow-up into early adolescence
Longitudinal analyses on normal versus impaired functioning across 7 domains were conducted in children who had experienced profound institutional deprivation up to the age of 42 months and were adopted from Romania into U.K. families. Comparisons were made with noninstitutionalized children adopted from Romania and with nondeprived within-U.K. adoptees placed before the age of 6 months. Specifically, the validity of the assessment, the degree of…
The Experience of Adoption (2): The Association between Communicative Openness and Self-Esteem in Adoption
A study of the views of two groups of 11-year-old adopted children (one adopted as babies within the UK, n = 47, the other adopted from Romania, aged between two and 43 months, n = 133) indicates that parents underestimate the difficulty that their children have in talking about adoption. Children who found this harder experienced lower self-esteem at age 11 and were also more likely to feel different from their adoptive families, and both these …
The Importance of Cultural Identity in Adoption: A Study of Young People Adopted from Romania
This article by Celia Beckett, Amanda Hawkins, Michael Rutter, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Christine Groothues, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Edmund Sonuga-Barke examines attitudes regarding cultural and national identity in a group of 165 young people adopted from Romania. The attitudes of their adoptive parents are also explored. The adoptive parents were interviewed over three or four time periods, when their children were 4/6, 11 and 15 …
Parents’ evaluation of adoption success: A follow-up study of intercountry and domestic adoptions
Parents of 165 children adopted from Romania and 52 children adopted from within the United Kingdom rated the success of the adoptions when the children were 11 years old. As was the case at two earlier study waves, satisfaction was found to be extremely high. Both positive and negative assessments were generally stable between ages 6 and 11, although for the children who had more problems there was an increase in negative evaluation, albeit with…
Challenges recruiting families with children at risk of anti‐social behaviour into intervention trials: Lessons from the Helping Children Achieve (HCA) study
Purpose The Helping Children Achieve study is a randomised controlled trial designed to test the effectiveness of parenting interventions for children at risk of anti‐social behaviour. The paper aims to examine the challenges in recruitment to the HCA trial. Design/methodology/approach The study is on‐going and is being conducted at two sites: an inner city London borough and a city in the South West of England. In total, 395 participants consent…
Developing a process for assessment of the emotional and behavioural needs of “looked after” children: The Five Rivers model
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development process of building an assessment model to assess the emotional and behavioural needs of “looked after children”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a technical paper developing and evaluating a process for comprehensively assessing children ' s needs using a combination of three existing tools. Findings – The paper identifies a model to assess “looked after” children and …
Psychology (21 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (16 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Romanian (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)