EBTA RESEARCH GRANTS 2010

The EBTA Board are offering two research grants in 2010 of 3500 Euro each
to suitable projects carrying out research into solution-focused brief
therapy and its applications.

How to apply:
To apply for a grant, please submit a statement of 800 words describing
the aims of the project, the researchers involved and an outline of the
proposed method. You should state the likely benefit of the project to sfbt
and what other sources of funding have been sought or obtained. The names
and contact details of two referees should be attached.
Copies of the application should be submitted to Dr Macdonald by November 30th 2009 by email or land post.  Dr Macdonald will forward copies to the
other members of the awards committee. A decision will be made in January 2010. The recipients of the grants will be informed directly and announced on the sft-email discussion list. The monies will be paid as a single sum in February 2010. Support from
EBTA should be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the study.


Awards Committee:
Dr Mark Beyebach, Universita Pontifidad, Salamanca, Spain; mbeyebach@upsa.es
Prof Wally Gingerich, USA; wjg4@po.cwru.edu
Dr Alasdair Macdonald, UK; macdonald@solutionsdoc.co.uk
Dr Ferdinand Wolf, Austria; ferdinand@wolf.co.at

Dr Alasdair Macdonald
Research coordinator, EBTA.
 www.solutionsdoc.co.uk


EBTA RESEARCH GRANTS 2009
Dear colleagues,
The European Brief Therapy Association Grant Awards committee has awarded two grants of 3500 Euro for 2009.  There were several interesting applications.  The successful projects were: Janet Bavelas and colleagues (Canada), to study the effects of positive questioning in sft using micro-analysis.  Marieta Igarenska and colleagues (Bulgaria), to study the effects of sft on improving cardiovascular health in a randomised controlled trial.
Dr Alasdair Macdonald,
Research Coordinator, EBTA.
www.solutionsdoc.co.uk


The concept of the research grant was proposed by Steve de Shazer and agreed by EBTA Board in Turku, August 2000.  The awards committee was agreed to be three persons: Research Coordinator, an office bearer of the Board and an external academic (currently Prof Wally Gingerich, Case Western Reserve University).

GRANTS AWARDED:

2007 - Plamen Panayotov and his colleagues in Bulgaria.  This project will examine the effectiveness of solution-focused therapy in relation to medication compliance in people with schizophrenia.

2006 – No award for administrative reasons.

2005 – Steve Myers, University of Salford: study of juvenile sexual offenders and their responses to the solution-focused treatment.

2005 – Lisbeth Kvarme, University of Bergen. An intervention study in the school health service to find out if solution-focused therapy contributes to strengthen self-efficacy and quality of life of pupils who have been exposed to bullying.

2004 - Frederic Linssen of Bielefeld for his study of a large number of sft clients using pretest, posttest and one year followup, including measures of satisfaction with therapy.  The design is similar to the EBTA study but uses different measures.  Work in progress.

2003 - No award as no adequate submissions received.

2002 - Elka Bozhkova of Bulgaria received the grant.  Her project is to include the EBTA multi-centre research design within a larger study of sft on a cohort of clients in a psychiatric rehabilitation service.  The data will go towards the multi-centre study as well as her own project. Work in progress.

2001 - Karin Wallgren, Stockholm.  Her project was a randomised controlled trial of group sft for chronic sick persons in a Swedish local authority area in order to return them to work. Successfully completed. published:
Thorslund KW (2007) Solution-focused group therapy for patients on long-term sick leave: a comparative outcome study.  Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 18(3): 11-24.  Randomised 15 exp / 15 control; 1-5 mon sick.  8 sess; increased return to work (60%(9) vs 13%(2)) and psychological health improved at 3 mon follow-up.  (karin.wallgren@losningsfokus.se)