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Julian Leff, M.D.
Introduction
Dr. Leff has been an integral component to the expansion of research in the fields of social psychiatry and psychology. He has focused on expressed emotion, the attitudes and behaviors an individual conveys towards a family member diagnosed with schizophrenia. More specficially his research focuses on expressed emotion among families with a member diagnosed with schizophrenia, differences in culture and how it pertains to expressed emotion, relapse prevention, and depression. Dr. Leff, together with Christine Vaughn, created a shorter version of the Camberwell Family Interview in an effort to assess for expressed emotion in a shorter amount of time. Most recently his research includes the use and development of Avatar Therapy to decrease auditory hallucinations among those with schizophrenia.
Career
Dr. Leff is a psychiatrist, trained at University College London. He then went to train at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College. He is currently...
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Bhugra, D., Kamaldeep, B., Mallet, R., Desai, M., Singh, J., & Leff, J. (1999). Cultural identity and its measurement: A questionnaire for Asians. International Review of Psychiatry, 11, 244–249.
Bhugra, D., Leff, J., Mallett, R., Morgan, C., & Zhao, J. H. (2010). The culture and identity schedule a measure of cultural affiliation: Acculturation, marginalization and schizophrenia. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 56(5), 540–556.
Leff, J. (1976). Schizophrenia and sensitivity to the family environment. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2(4), 566–674.
Leff, J., & Vaughn, C. (1985). Expressed emotions in families: It’s significance for mental illness. New York: Guilford Press.
Leff, J., & Warner, R. (2006). Social inclusion of people with mental illness. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Morgan, C., Mallett, R., Hutchinson, G., & Leff, J. (2004). Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity: The bridge between social science and psychiatry. Social Science & Medicine, 58(4), 739–752.
Rus-Calafell, M., Garety, P., Ward, T., Williams, G., Huckvale, M., Leff, J., & Craig, T. (2015). Confronting auditory hallucinations using virtual reality: The avatar therapy. Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine, 13, 192–196.
Sartorius, N., Leff, J., Lopez-Ibor, J. J., Maj, M., & Okasha, A. (Eds.). (2005). Families and mental disorders: From burden to empowerment. Chichester: Wiley.
Vaughn, C., & Leff, J. (1976). The measurement of expressed emotion in the families of psychiatric patients. British Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 15(2), 157–165.
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Hernandez, M. (2018). Leff, Julian. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_764-1
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