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

García F, Klagges M, Leyton F, Nogales I, Mickman C, Martínez C, Tomicic A. Mental telehealth in a public child and adolescent psychiatry unit during the pandemic: a qualitative implementation study. Medwave. 2024 Mar 21;24(2):e2777. English, Spanish. doi: 10.5867/medwave.2024.02.2777. PMID: 38513231.

Molina-González N, Álvarez-Busco F, Cabrera-Ubilla C, Villagrán-Pradena S, Leyton-Álvarez F, Guerra-Zúñiga M. Key elements for understanding and developing qualitative research for health professionals. Medwave. 2024 Nov 22;24(10):e2972. English, Spanish. doi: 10.5867/medwave.2024.10.2972. PMID: 39576934.

Olhaberry M, Morán-Kneer J, Sieverson C, Costa-Cordella S, Muzard A, Honorato C, León MJ, Leyton F. Impact of strength-based video-feedback intervention on maternal sensitivity in mother-infant dyads with maternal depressive symptoms. Infant Ment Health J. 2025 Mar;46(2):160-180. doi: 10.1002/imhj.22154. Epub 2024 Dec 26. PMID: 39725982.

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.

Meza N, Madrid E, Bracchiglione J, Leyton F, Rojas V, Rada G, Verdugo F, Rojas AM, Peña J. Ministerio de Salud de Chile. Intervenciones no farmacológicas para abordar las necesidades de adolescentes con Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA)[Internet]. Santiago; 2023 Mar. Disponible en: https://etesa-sbe.minsal.cl/index.php/publicaciones/

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.

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 C, León MJ, Sieverson C, Alfaro Á, Hernández C, Alvarado R, Steele H. Video Intervention Therapy for primary caregivers in a child psychiatry unit: a randomized feasibility trial. Trials. 2021 Oct 30;22(1):754. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05668-w. PMID: 34717750; PMCID: PMC8557018.

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.

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. 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

OnTrackChile for First Episode Psy.chosis. Proyecto R01 MH115502 (NIMH-USA). IP Rubén Alvarado

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.  Directora de proyecto.

“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.

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