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Maria Luisa Leichtman, Ph.D.
Biography / Credentials and Services

 

Location:
Midwest Psychiatry
7011 W. 121st Street
Suite 105
Overland Park, Kansas 66209

Phone: 913.345.1191
Fax: 913.345.1464

Education:
M.A. (1974) University of Kansas
Ph.D. (1976) University of Kansas
Internship (1970) Philadelphia Psychiatric Center

Licensure: Kansas

Professional Affiliations:
American Psychological Association
Society for Personality Assessment

Areas of Specialization:
ADD/ADHD
Anxiety Disorders
Asperger’s Disorder
Depression
Behavior Disorders
Family Problems
Panic Disorders
Personality Disorders
PSTD


 

Groups Served:
Preschoolers
Children
Adolescents
Adults

Services:
Diagnostic Consultation
Psychological
Psychotherapy
Group Therapy
Work with Families
Supervision
Agency Consultation

Publications:

A model of short-term residential treatment: Parts I-III. In Contributions to Residential Treatment, 1995, Claudia Waller (ed.). Alexandria, VA: American Association of Children’s Residential Centers, 1996. Pp. 83-110.(With Martin Leichtman)

Short-term residential treatment and its limits. Treatment Today, 8:12-13, 1996.

Critical issues in short-term residential treatment: Facilitating the transition into the community: Parts I-V. In Contributions to Residential Treatment, 1999. Washington, DC: American Association of Children’s Residential Centers, 1999. Pp. 81-118. (With Martin Leichtman and Heather Cafferty)

The effectiveness of intensive short-term residential treatment with severely disturbed adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71: 227-235, 2001.

Psychotherapy in Group Care. New York: Haworth, 2003. (With D. Patrick Zimmerman, Richard Epstein, and Martin Leichtman)

The integration of psychotherapy and residential care in middle phase of an intensive short-term treatment program. Residential Treatment for Children &Youth, 21(2):1-17, 2003. (With Martin Leichtman)

The integration of psychotherapy and intensive short-term residential care: The termination phase. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 21(3):19-44, 2004. (With Martin Leichtman).


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