Fanny Leyton spoke at the Child and Youth Mental Health Seminar
29/10/2023
On October 13 and 14, the International Seminar on Child and Adolescent Mental Health: “Interventions with children, adolescents and their families based on attachment and mentalization. Dialogues between research and clinical practice”. This activity was organized by the UV School of Psychology, the child and adolescent area of the Department of Clinical Psychology (Puerto Infancia) and the FONIS project -in charge of the researcher Javier Morán-, with the sponsorship of MIDAP (Millennium Institute for Depression Research), Fundación En Mente, and the Center for Studies in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the Universidad Diego Portales.
The meeting was attended by Norka Malberg, director of the Imagina Center in Barcelona and co-author of the book “Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children”, and Mark Dangerfield, psychologist at the Ramon Llull University and the Center for Mentalization Applications in Barcelona. Fanny Leyton, researcher at CIESAL, presented the results of the project “Video-feedback focused on resources: promoting mentalization in early intervention with mothers with depression”, in which a Pilot Clinical Trial was developed with an online intervention for mothers with depressive symptoms attended in PHC and their babies.
During the project, executed in the middle of the pandemic during 2021, it was possible to evaluate the feasibility of making this intervention online, integrating young psychologists under their supervision and achieving, in this brief intervention, an improvement in maternal sensitivity and improvements in the parental reflective function. The researchers of this project -professionals from the Pontificia Universidad Católica, the Universidad Diego Portales and the Universidad de Valparaíso- hope to scale this intervention in the public system in the future.
Dr. Leyton has been noted for her important contributions in the framework of interventions for the prevention and early management of child mental health problems, and has strongly promoted the linkage of academia and our institution with the school sector and clinical services, working with families and educators for the management of this important issue.
