Julian Leff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3656952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Leff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Leff |
| SIGNATURE | LEFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Psychiatry Research Trust |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How a pain management program for patients and spouses can benefit their lives
Deinstitutionalisation in Low and Middle Income Countries
Deinstitutionalization, Psychiatry of
Expressed emotion among relatives of chronic pain patients, the interaction between relatives’ behaviours and patients’ pain experience
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a sensory and emotional experience that causes significant disturbances to a patient's life as well as to their family. Whether the family environment is affected by chronic pain and, in turn, affects the patients' pain experience has yet to be investigated. The interaction between patients and spouses has been assessed using the expressed emotion (EE) construct, a tool previously described in the field of mental healt…
Satisfaction with inpatient treatment for first-episode psychosis among different ethnic groups
Background: There is concern about the level of satisfaction with mental healthcare among minority ethnic patients in the UK, particularly as black patients have more compulsory admissions to hospital. Aims: To determine and compare levels of satisfaction with mental healthcare between patients from different ethnic groups in a three-centre study of first-onset psychosis. Method: Data were collected from 216 patients with first-episode psychosis …
The Culture and Identity Schedule a Measure of Cultural Affiliation
Background: Previous epidemiological studies have shown a high incidence of schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans in the UK, but not in Asians. Aims: We investigated the hypothesis that cultural adherence might protect the Asians against the stress of living in a majority white culture. Methods: The Culture and Identity Schedule (CANDID) was given to patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia making their first contact with psychiatric services, an…
Social Inclusion of People with Mental Illness
People with serious mental illness no longer spend years of their lives in psychiatric institutions. In developed countries, there has been a major shift in the focus of care from hospitals into the community. However, whilst it means those with mental illness are not confined, it does not guarantee they will be fully integrated into their communities. The barriers to full citizenship are partly due to the disabilities produced by their illnesses…
Ethnicity, Goal Striving and Schizophrenia
Background: The need to achieve is common to all societies, and failure to do so may have a highly detrimental psychological impact. For those on the margins of mainstream society, especially migrants or descendants of migrants, the impact of failed or poor achievements may increase their vulnerability to mental illness. Aims: In a prospective study of schizophrenia in three ethnic groups (White, Indian and African-Caribbean) we studied the impac…
Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity
The Characteristics of Expressed Emotion Among Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia in Chengdu, China
Social Factors and First Onset Schizophrenia Among Asians and Whites
Previous studies from the Indian subcontinent had suggested that the onset and outcome of schizophrenia is linked with social factors. We set out to study the inception rates and social factors in whites and Asians who were presenting for the first time ever to various catchment facilities in Ealing catchment area. A total of 62 cases (38 white and 24 Asians) were diagnosed as having schizophrenia. Using well established and previously validated …
An investigation of shame and guilt in a depressed sample
A self‐report measure of proneness to shame and guilt was administered to 86 patients with moderate to severe depression, with the prediction that there would be a positive correlation of shame with severity of depression. Contrary to other, non‐clinical studies, we found that guilt but not shame was associated with levels of depression. Shameproneness demonstrated a unique association with a stable attributional style for negative outcomes, glob…
The Taps Project 41
Problems of Transformation
Despite the progressive reduction over many years in patient populations of psychiatric hospitals in America and many European countries, there have been few attempts to evaluate this policy. The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services (TAPS) was established to monitor and evaluate the closure of two large psychiatric hospitals in North London. A number of important problems have been identified in the course of the TAPS research programm…
Psychiatry Around the Globe
Social anthropology
The cross-cultural study of emotions
The Influence of Family and Social Factors on the Course of Psychiatric Illness
This study is a replication and extension of past work carried out by Brown, Birley and Wing (1972) concerning the influence of family life on the course of schizophrenia. In the original research the index of emotion expressed by a key relative about the patient at the time of key admission proved to be the best single predictor of symptomatic relapse in the nine months after discharge from hospital. In the present study this main finding of Bro…
Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity
Psychiatry Around the Globe
The Taps Project 41
The Culture and Identity Schedule a Measure of Cultural Affiliation
Background: Previous epidemiological studies have shown a high incidence of schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans in the UK, but not in Asians. Aims: We investigated the hypothesis that cultural adherence might protect the Asians against the stress of living in a majority white culture. Methods: The Culture and Identity Schedule (CANDID) was given to patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia making their first contact with psychiatric services, an…
An investigation of shame and guilt in a depressed sample
A self‐report measure of proneness to shame and guilt was administered to 86 patients with moderate to severe depression, with the prediction that there would be a positive correlation of shame with severity of depression. Contrary to other, non‐clinical studies, we found that guilt but not shame was associated with levels of depression. Shameproneness demonstrated a unique association with a stable attributional style for negative outcomes, glob…
The Influence of Family and Social Factors on the Course of Psychiatric Illness
This study is a replication and extension of past work carried out by Brown, Birley and Wing (1972) concerning the influence of family life on the course of schizophrenia. In the original research the index of emotion expressed by a key relative about the patient at the time of key admission proved to be the best single predictor of symptomatic relapse in the nine months after discharge from hospital. In the present study this main finding of Bro…
The cross-cultural study of emotions
Social anthropology
Psychiatry Around the Globe
Problems of Transformation
Despite the progressive reduction over many years in patient populations of psychiatric hospitals in America and many European countries, there have been few attempts to evaluate this policy. The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services (TAPS) was established to monitor and evaluate the closure of two large psychiatric hospitals in North London. A number of important problems have been identified in the course of the TAPS research programm…
The Taps Project 41
Social Factors and First Onset Schizophrenia Among Asians and Whites
Previous studies from the Indian subcontinent had suggested that the onset and outcome of schizophrenia is linked with social factors. We set out to study the inception rates and social factors in whites and Asians who were presenting for the first time ever to various catchment facilities in Ealing catchment area. A total of 62 cases (38 white and 24 Asians) were diagnosed as having schizophrenia. Using well established and previously validated …
An investigation of shame and guilt in a depressed sample
A self‐report measure of proneness to shame and guilt was administered to 86 patients with moderate to severe depression, with the prediction that there would be a positive correlation of shame with severity of depression. Contrary to other, non‐clinical studies, we found that guilt but not shame was associated with levels of depression. Shameproneness demonstrated a unique association with a stable attributional style for negative outcomes, glob…
The Characteristics of Expressed Emotion Among Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia in Chengdu, China
Ethnicity, Goal Striving and Schizophrenia
Background: The need to achieve is common to all societies, and failure to do so may have a highly detrimental psychological impact. For those on the margins of mainstream society, especially migrants or descendants of migrants, the impact of failed or poor achievements may increase their vulnerability to mental illness. Aims: In a prospective study of schizophrenia in three ethnic groups (White, Indian and African-Caribbean) we studied the impac…
Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity
Social Inclusion of People with Mental Illness
People with serious mental illness no longer spend years of their lives in psychiatric institutions. In developed countries, there has been a major shift in the focus of care from hospitals into the community. However, whilst it means those with mental illness are not confined, it does not guarantee they will be fully integrated into their communities. The barriers to full citizenship are partly due to the disabilities produced by their illnesses…
The Culture and Identity Schedule a Measure of Cultural Affiliation
Background: Previous epidemiological studies have shown a high incidence of schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans in the UK, but not in Asians. Aims: We investigated the hypothesis that cultural adherence might protect the Asians against the stress of living in a majority white culture. Methods: The Culture and Identity Schedule (CANDID) was given to patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia making their first contact with psychiatric services, an…
Satisfaction with inpatient treatment for first-episode psychosis among different ethnic groups
Background: There is concern about the level of satisfaction with mental healthcare among minority ethnic patients in the UK, particularly as black patients have more compulsory admissions to hospital. Aims: To determine and compare levels of satisfaction with mental healthcare between patients from different ethnic groups in a three-centre study of first-onset psychosis. Method: Data were collected from 216 patients with first-episode psychosis …
Expressed emotion among relatives of chronic pain patients, the interaction between relatives’ behaviours and patients’ pain experience
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a sensory and emotional experience that causes significant disturbances to a patient's life as well as to their family. Whether the family environment is affected by chronic pain and, in turn, affects the patients' pain experience has yet to be investigated. The interaction between patients and spouses has been assessed using the expressed emotion (EE) construct, a tool previously described in the field of mental healt…
Deinstitutionalisation in Low and Middle Income Countries
Deinstitutionalization, Psychiatry of
How a pain management program for patients and spouses can benefit their lives
Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (7 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Political science (5 works)