(2011) The research study analyzed the effectiveness of SFBT at both an individual therapy level and a group therapy level. (Cepukiene and Pakrosnis, 2011) This study concluded that SFBT is effective and reliable and elicited significant changes in thirty-one percent of participants. The data collected showed that using SFBT with this demographic led to improved behaviors. (Cepukiene & Pakrosnis, 2011) Furthermore, their results showed that after the SFBT intervention, adolescents were less likely to be taken out of a foster family and placed in a group home due to negative behaviors. (Cepukiene & Pakrosnis, 2011) Researchers report that approximately half of adolescents achieved what they considered to be “significant change.” (Cepukiene and Pakrosnis,