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RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 107-116Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1049731507307807
Keywords
solution-focused brief therapy; systematic review; meta-analysis
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Objective: A meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). Method: Hierarchical linear modeling software was used to synthesize the primary studies to calculate an overall effect size estimate and test for between-study variability. Results: Solution-focused brief therapy demonstrated small but positive treatment effects favoring SFBT group on the outcome measures (d = 0.13 to 0.26). Only the magnitude of the effect for internalizing behavior problems was statistically significant at the p < .05 level, thereby indicating that the treatment effect for SFBT group is different than the control group. Conclusions: This study allows social workers interested in solution-focused brief therapy to examine the empirical evidence quickly and with more definitive information.
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