Cheryl Tatano Beck

DNSc, CNM, FAAN

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor

Joint Appointment in School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

She/Her/Hers

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Dr. Beck is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, School of Nursing.  She also has a joint appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine. She received her Master’s degree in maternal-newborn nursing and her certificate in nurse-midwifery from Yale University.  Her Doctor of Nursing Science degree is from Boston University. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. She was awarded the Marcé Medal by the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health for the significant contributions of her research program. Over the past 35 years, Cheryl has focused her research efforts on developing a research program on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. Her Postpartum Depression Screening Scale is based on her series of qualitative studies.

 She has published over 195 journal articles. She also has published multiple American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year such as Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide. Other books she has written include Traumatic Childbirth, Developing a Program of Research in Nursing, Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis for the Health Sciences, and Introduction to Phenomenology: Focus on Methodology.

Research/Scholarship Interests

• Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
• Postpartum Depression
• PTSD due to birth trauma
• Traumatic childbirth

Education

• DNSc, Boston University, Nursing, 1982
• CNM, Yale University, Nurse-Midwifery, 1972
• MSN, Yale University, Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 1972
• BSN, Western Connecticut State University, Nursing, 1970

Honors & Awards

2020 – Marcé Medal awarded by the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health

2019 – Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

2014 – Mary Jane Williams Lifetime Achievement Award, Connecticut Nurses Association

2013 – Sustained & Influential Leader, Eastern Nursing Research Society

2013 – 90 Nurses for 90 Years, Yale University School of Nursing

2009 – Distinguished Professional Service Award, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nursing

2008 – University of Connecticut, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor

1993 – Induction into Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing.

 

Books

Beck, C. T. (2021). Phenomenology: Focus on Method. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications. 

Beck, C. T. (2019). Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in the Health and Social Sciences. New York: Routledge Publications.

Polit, D. F., & Beck, C.T. (2021).  Nursing Research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (11th Ed). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer

Beck, C. T. (2016). Developing a Program of Research in Nursing. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Long, T. & Beck CT (2017).  Writing in nursing: A brief guide. New York: Oxford University Press.

Beck, C. T., Driscoll, J. W., & Watson, S. (2013). Traumatic childbirth. New York: Routledge.

Beck, C.T. (Ed.) (2013). Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Research. New York: Routledge.

 

Articles

Beck, C. T., & Twomey, T. (2023). Posttraumatic growth after postpartum psychosis. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 48(6), 303-311.-

Beck, C. T. (2023). Lexicon of metaphors: An Innovative Approach to detect the aftermath of traumatic childbirth. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(5), 366-372.

Beck, C. T. (2022). Narrating Perinatal Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder through Blogs. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 47(5), 273-280.

Beck, C. T. (2023). Teetering on the Edge: A Third Grounded Theory Modification. Advances in Nursing Science, 46(1), 14-27.

Beck, C. T. (2022). Secondary qualitative analysis of moral injury in obstetric and neonatal nurses. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 51, 166-176.

Beck, C. T. (2023). Postpartum Preeclampsia: What can stories posted on the Internet tell us?

Association of Emergency Nurses Journal, 45(2), 154-163.

Beck, C.T. (2020). Effects of fourth-degree perineal lacerations on women’s physical and mental health, JOGNN, 50, 133-142.

Beck, C. T. (2020). Secondary traumatic stress in maternal newborn nurses: A secondary qualitative data analysis. Journal of the American Association of Psychiatric Nurses, 26, 55-64.Beck, C. T. (2020). Pentadic Cartography: Mapping Postpartum Psychosis Narratives. Qualitative Health Research, 30(12), 1851-1860.

 

Selected Publications