Fanny Leyton
Fanny Leyton Alvarez is a Medical Doctor from the University of Valparaíso, an Adult Psychiatrist from the University of Chile, and is currently a Master’s and Ph.D. in Psychotherapy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She holds diplomas in Community Mental Health, Forensic Psychiatry, Mental Health Services Management, and Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis OPD-2. She is certified in Video Intervention Therapy and has training in Mentalization-Based Therapy for children, adolescents, and families (MBT-C, A, and F).
Since 2009, she has worked in private practice and has held clinical and leadership positions in various public mental health centers in the Valparaíso region of Chile, including the Hospital de Quillota, Community Mental Health Center of Limache, Day Hospital of Quilpué Hospital, and El Salvador Psychiatric Hospital (Child and Adolescent Unit). Additionally, since 2009, she has worked in various adolescent drug use intervention programs within the SEMDA network.
She is a Tenured Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Valparaíso and is part of the training program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Studies (CIESAL), the Millennium Institute for Research on Depression and Personality (MIDAP), and the Chilean Society of Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry (SOPNIA).
Dr. Leyton has led and contributed to research projects on various mental health topics, particularly focusing on attachment-based interventions for parents of children with severe mental health issues and mothers with postpartum depression, youth mental health literacy programs in schools, and community interventions for individuals with psychosis. She has been the principal investigator in two FONIS projects and has participated as a co-investigator in FONDECYT, FONDEF, and other research initiatives.
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