Research Award 2021
2021 SFBTA Research Awards
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2021 SFBTA Research Award Winners
Grief Program with Collaboration from the Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief to compliment Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Julio Martinez & Dr. Lena Green
HOPE Center, New York City
The HOPE (Healing on Purpose and Evolving) Center, in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief, will be embarking on providing mental health services to address pre-existing mental health conditions in addition to providing assistance to anyone who is grieving a significant loss. For some individuals, feelings of loss don't improve even after time passes and can be prolonged and debilitating. This is known as complicated grief, or prolonged grief disorder. For those experiencing complicated grief, painful emotions are severe and long lasting which gets in the way of recovering from a loss and resuming one’s own life. This is extremely important when taking into consideration the current Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on communities of color. The HOPE Center will combine Prolonged Complicated Grief interventions with Solution-Focused Brief Therapy interventions based on a brief treatment model that includes providing 10 -12 free counseling sessions to individuals and 8 weeks of group-based therapy. This grant will be used to support communities of color by being culturally inclusive and providing targeted mental health services using a holistic person-centered approach to care in East and Central Harlem.
2021 SFBTA Research Award Winner
A comparative systematic review and meta-analysis
between U.S. and East Asian studies
In Young Park (SFBTA Research Award recipient)
Johnny Kim, Cynthia Franklin, Tasha Beretvas, Anao Zhang, Samantha Guz, Audrey Hai, Yong Ju Cho, Chun Liu, Tatsuji Shinohara
One significant area of intervention for solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is with youth in school settings. While the effectiveness of SFBT has been shown for a wide range of academic and behavioral difficulties among youth, there is little research that systematically and cross-nationally compares the effectiveness of SFBT on youth developmental outcomes. More comprehensive review is needed to explore cultural fit and meaning of SFBT by including under-examined studies from different countries. Thus, this study uses a systematic review and meta-analytic method to synthesize studies published in the U.S. and East Asian countries (i.e., China, Korea, and Japan) and compare the strength of evidence supporting SFBT as a culturally adaptive and school-based intervention tool. The findings of this study can support the evidence that SFBT is a promising practical guide that can apply to different cultural contexts in school settings to support at-risk racially diverse youth.
