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Current NHS consultant posts held

Past NHS Posts (I work solely in private practice)
* Lead Clinical Psychologist, St Barts & The
London NHS Trust: 2009-2012
* Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist: St Barts &
The London NHS Trust: 2004-2008
* Principal Clinical Psychologist: Camden & Islington Mental Health & Social Care Trust: 2003-2004
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology: Camden &
Islington Mental Health Trust: 1999-2002
* Research Psychologist: Royal Free Hospital and UCLH, London: 1997-1999

Research interests

Schema Therapy for adult with mental health and chronic health conditions
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Emotional Resilience for Mental Health
Emotional Intelligence

Publications

• Leaity & Hennessey (2006) Outcomes of a pilot Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) group for people with HIV: Presentation at The Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, British Psychological Society.
• Leaity et. al. (2000) Repeat HIV testing: high-risk behaviour or risk reduction strategy? AIDS
• Elford, Leaity, et al. (2001). Incidence of HIV infection among gay men in a London HIV testing clinic, 1997-1998. AIDS, 15, 5, 650-653
• Leaity et al. (2000). Repeat HIV testing: high-risk behaviour or risk reduction strategy? AIDS, 14, 547 - 552
• Sherr, L., Nardone, A., Leaity, S., et al. (1999). “Try this HIV test”- an evaluation of a mass media campaign targeting homosexual men. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 75, 273
• Fallowfield, L., Leaity, S., Howell, A., Benson, S. & Cella, D. (1999). Assessment of quality of life in women undergoing hormonal therapy for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 55, 189-199

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
• Assessing Complexity and Severity of Client’s Psychological Presentations: A Rating Tool for HIV and Sexual Health Services (2011)
• The Role of Illness Schemas, Coping and Medical Diagnoses in Adjustment to Chronic Back Pain and Ankylosing Spondylitis (Clinical Doctorate Thesis, 2002)
• Women’s Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Cervical Screening and Condom Use for Protection Against Cervical Cancer: Testing Social Cognition Models of Health Behaviour (Masters Degree Thesis, 1996)