Researcher

Fanny Leyton

Fanny Leyton graduated as a physician from the Universidad de Valparaíso and as a Psychiatry form the Universidad de Chile. She has a master degree and a PhD in Psychotherapy from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has more than 10 years of clinical experience in the public health system. Currently she is working as an assistant professor  at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program from the Universidad de Valparaíso. She is trained in mentalization-based psychotherapy and video intervention. She has conducted clinical and implementation sciences research in the public service. She is currently leading a FONIS project regarding Child Mental Health Literacy in Publics Schools at Valparaíso. She is member of the Chilean Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology (SOPNIA)

Works

Publications

(Español) Vargas C, Aguilera F, Arancibia M, Alvarado R, Leyton F. Estudio prospectivo descriptivo de las trayectorias de respuesta terapéutica en una cohorte de pacientes con trastorno depresivo mayor. Rev Chil Neuro-Psiquiat (En revisión)

Mandiola MI, Arancibia M, Elton V, Madrid E, Meza N, Stojanova J, Lutz M, Leyton F. Perfectionism, academic stress and social anxiety in female medical students and the risk for eating disorders. Rev Med Chile 2022; 150: 1046.1053.

Arancibia M, Leyton F, Morán J, Muga A, Ríos U, Sepúlveda E, Vallejo-Correa V. Phycological debriefing in acute traumatic events: Evidence synthesis. Medwave. 2022 Jan 18;22(1):e8517. Spanish, English. doi: 10.5867/medwave.2022.01.002538. PMID: 35100248.

Olhaberry M, Leyton F, Morán-Kneer J, León MJ, Sieverson C, Muzard A, Honorato C, Ensink K,  Malberg N, Luyten P, Costa-Cordella S. Video Intervención online informada en la mentalización y Focalizada en los Recursos (VI-FR) para mejorar la sensibilidad en díadas madre-infante con síntomas depresivos: Ensayo Clínico Aleatorizado Piloto. Medwave 2022;22(11):e2570 http://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2022.11.2570

Sieverson C, Olhaberry M, Duarte J, Morán J, Costa S, León MJ, Valenzuela S, Leyton F, Honorato C, Muzard A. Beyond the Outcomes: Generic Change Indicators in a video-feedback intervention with a depressed mother and her baby: a single case study. Res Psychother. 2022 Mar 4;25(1):584. doi: 10.4081/ripppo.2022.584. PMID: 35373962; PMCID: PMC9153750.

Leyton F, Olhaberry M, Morán J, de la Cerda J, León MJ, Sieverson C, Alfaro A, Hernández C, Alvarado R, Steele H. Video Intervention Therapy for primary caregivers in a child psychiatry unit: a randomized feasibility trial. Trials 2021; 22: 754. En: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05668-w

Meza N, Leyton F. Vortioxetine for generalised anxiety disorder in adults. Medwave 2021;21(03):e8171

Tomicic A, Martínez C, Rosenbaum C, Aguayo F, Leyton F, Rodríguez J, Galvez C, Lagazzi I. Adolescence and Suicide: Subjective Construction of the Suicidal Process in Young Gay and Lesbian Chileans. J Homosex. 2021 Nov 10;68(13):2122-2143. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1804253. Epub 2020 Aug 19. PMID: 32813634.

Barker MJ, Leyton F, Stojanova J, Briceno M, Duenas LA, Arancibia M. A cross-sectional study on the characteristics and factors associated with the clinical course of child and adolescent patients hospitalized in a public child and adolescent psychiatric unit of Chile. Medwave. 2020 Mar 24;20(2):e7853.

Leyton F, Olhaberry M, Alvarado R, Rojas G, Dueñas LA, Downing G, Steele H. Video feedback intervention to enhance parental reflective functioning in primary caregivers of inpatient psychiatric children: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial. Trials. 2019 May 14;20(1):268-277. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3310-y.

Olhaberry, M.; León, M.J.; Sieverson, C.; Escobar; M.; Iribarren, D.; Morales-Reyes, I.; Mena, C.; & Leyton, F. Is it possible to improve early childhood development with a video-feedback intervention directed at the mother-father-child triad? Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome 2019. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.324

Leyton F, Caceres R, Barker M, Morán J, Martinez V. Contribución de la medición del patrón de apego en la estimación del riesgo suicida en adolescentes. Revisión de la literatura. Rev Neuropsiquiatría 2017.

Projects

(Español) SA21I0143 Construcción participativa y factibilidad de una intervención multicomponente para mejorar el bienestar de niños de educación básica después de la pandemia covid-19.  Concurso FONIS 2021-2023. Eva Madrid Directora de proyecto. 2021-2023 Rol: Directora

ID 757-45-LE22   DIPLAS. CONTRATACIÓN DE SERVICIOS DE ELABORACIÓN DE UN RESUMEN DE EVIDENCIA PARA POLÍTICAS SOBRE INTERVENCIONES NO FARMACOLÓGICAS PARA ABORDAR LAS NECESIDADES DE ADOLESCENTES EN EL ESPECTRO AUTISTA EA – EXPEDIENTE 32127 Rol: co-investigadora

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