Biography

Dr. Beeghly is Professor in Psychology and Chair of its Developmental Science area. She also is Affiliate Faculty at the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, where she serves as Core Faculty in its Infant Mental Health Dual Title Program and is a member of its Advisory Board. She is a Co-Faculty Advisor for PsiChi, the international honors society for psychology majors, and in 2016 received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award at Wayne State University, with a special commendation for mentoring undergraduate students.

Dr. Beeghly's research evaluates how biologic and social risk and resilience factors alter trajectories of communicative and socio-emotional development in groups of infants and children at risk for developmental problems due to stressors such as premature birth, poverty, violence exposure, child maltreatment, or maternal depression. She is especially interested in examining whether parent-child communicative, mutual emotion regulatory, and joint attentional processes observed during social interaction mediate the association between contextual factors and children’s outcomes in different at risk groups. A primary goal is to identify specific factors from multiple ecological levels of influence (child, parental, dyadic, familial, and socio-ecological) that foster resilient outcomes for children and parents.

Education

BA: University of California, Santa Cruz
MA, PhD: University of Colorado, Boulder
Postdoctoral Fellowships: University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana & Harvard University

Office Location

5057 Woodward Avenue, room 8306.3

Grants

 https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/dx4977

Office Phone

(313) 577-4061

Publications

 https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/dx4977

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