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NAME
Stephen S. Leff, Ph.D.
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POSITION TITLE
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in Pediatrics
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EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
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INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
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DEGREE
(if applicable)
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YEAR(s)
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FIELD OF STUDY
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Duke University, Durham, NC
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B.A.
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1989
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Psychology & Religion
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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M.A.
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1992
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Clinical Psychology
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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Ph.D.
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1996
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Clinical Psychology
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A. Positions and Honors
2005-present Ad Hoc Reviewer for Child Development, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology
2004-present NIH Grant Review Committee Member (Minority/Disability Pred. Fellow, DPPS, Study Section)
2004-present Associate Director, Community Schools Program, CHOP, Philadelphia, PA
2003-present Institutional Review Board Member at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2003-present Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of School Psychology
2002-present Editorial Advisory Board, School Psychology Review
2001-present Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1999-present Ad Hoc reviewer: School Psych. Review, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, and Journal of Ped. Psych.
1999-present Director of the Friend to Friend Program, CHOP, Philadelphia, PA
1998-present Clinical Associate, Department of Pediatrics, CHOP, Philadelphia, PA
1998-present Staff Psychologist, Community Schools Program/ADHD Program, CHOP, Philadelphia, PA
1998-present Director, Playground, Lunchroom, and Youth Success (PLAYS), CHOP, Philadelphia, PA
Honors
1998 Playground, Lunchroom, and Youth Success (PLAYS) Program cited as example of Best Practice in Philadelphia for school-based interventions
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order)
Power, T. J., Manz, P. H., & Leff, S. S. (2003). Training for effective practice in the schools. In M. Weist, S. Evans, & N. Tashman (Eds.), School mental health handbook (pp. 257-273). Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Leff, S. S. (2004). Gaining a better understanding of peer group contributions to dating aggression. Implications for prevention and intervention programming: Comment on Kinsfogel and Grych (2004) Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 516-518.
Leff, S. S., Angelucci, J., Goldstein, A. B., Cardaciotto, L., Paskewich, M.S., & Grossman, M.B. (in press). Using a participatory action research model to create a school-based intervention program for relationally aggressive girls: The Friend to Friend Program. In J. Zins, M. Elias, & C. Maher (Eds.), Handbook of Prevention and Intervention in Peer Harassment, Victimization, and Bullying. New York. Haworth.
Leff, S. S., Crick, N., Angelucci, J, Haye, K., Jawad, A., Grossman, M., & Power, T. (in press). Understanding social cognitive development in context: Partnering with urban African American girls to create a hostile attribution bias measure. Child Development.
C. Research Support
K23 MH01728-O1A1 Leff (PI) 9/00-2/06
NIMH
Designing Interventions for Inner-City Aggressive Females
The major goal of this early career award is to examine the playground behavior, social cognitions, and comorbid conditions of subgroups of aggressive girls, and to establish an effect size estimate for the 20-session school-based group intervention to improve these high-risk girls' friendship making skills and anger management abilities.
