Research
How can mental health systems better promote recovery, equity, and access to care for marginalized populations?
My research examines how mental health services can be designed, implemented, and delivered to promote recovery and equitable access to care. I focus particularly on people with serious mental illness and racial and ethnic minority communities, investigating factors that shape help-seeking, service utilization, continuity of care, and culturally responsive service delivery.
Methodologically, I integrate quantitative, computational, and mixed-methods approaches, including machine learning, natural language processing, large-scale administrative data analysis, and evidence synthesis. Increasingly, my work leverages computational methods to study mental health service systems, workforce dynamics, and emerging forms of help-seeking and care delivery.
Three Strands of Inquiry
Recovery-Oriented Practice
How individual and organizational factors shape recovery-promoting competencies among mental health practitioners, and how recovery-oriented values are translated into clinical practice.
Service Access & Equity
Patterns of mental health service utilization among marginalized communities, including Asian Americans and East Asian postsecondary students, with attention to stigma, language-concordant care, and help-seeking.
System Design, Implementation & Emerging Models of Care
How mental health systems adopt, implement, and sustain innovative models of care, including peer support services, crisis response systems, and emerging digital and AI-enabled forms of support.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. Na, S., & Solomon, P. (2026). "Individual and Organizational Factors Influencing the Recovery-Promoting Competencies Among Mental Health Practitioners." Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. (Online First). Read online
2. Na, S., Solomon, P., & Yoo, N. (2026). "Impact of Bilingual Mental Health Providers on Service Utilization Among Asian Americans: Moderating Role of Medicaid Spending." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. (Online First). Read online
3. Tham, S., Na, S., & Solomon, P. (2025). "Factors Influencing the Implementation of Peer Support Specialists within Mobile Crisis Teams: A Scoping Review of CFIR Domains and Implementation Strategies." Psychological Services. (Online First). Read online
4. Na, S., Tham, S., & Solomon, P. (2025). "Understanding the Essence of Recovery-Oriented Practice: Scoping Review." American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 28(5), 1572–1615. Read online
5. Na, S., Kahng, S. K., & Solomon, P. (2025). "Impact of Discrimination on Help-Seeking Behavior Among Individuals With Serious Mental Illness in South Korea: Role of Social Participation Services." Community Mental Health Journal, 61(6), 1181–1194. Read online
6. Kim, S., Kang, M., & Na, S. (2022). "Social Capital and Cultural Capital of People Living Alone." Journal of Critical Social Welfare, 75(1), 171–216. Read online
Manuscripts Under Review
1. Na, S., Tham, S., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "Cultural Humility and Recovery-Promoting Competencies Among Mental Health Practitioners: The Role of Recovery Attitudes." Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services.
2. Na, S., Kim, I. A., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "Predictors of Early Mental Health Treatment Dropout in Postsecondary Students with Serious Mental Illness: A Machine Learning Approach." The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research.
3. Na, S., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going: Mapping the Evolution of Personal Recovery Scholarship in Serious Mental Illness Through Structural Topic Modeling." Social Science & Medicine.
4. Kim, I. A., Na, S., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "Self-Stigma, Sense of Belonging, and Help-Seeking Across Professional and Informal Contexts Among East Asian Postsecondary Students." Asian American Journal of Psychology.
5. Yu, H., Na, S., Zhang, A., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "The Indirect Effect of Bullying on Student School Belonging Through Online Vigilance: A Gender-Specific Pattern." Youth and Society.
6. Dunn, C., Assoudeh, E., Na, S., Tham, S., Solomon, P., Enders, G., Clarke, M., Peterson, P., Watson, S., Rahman, A., Lopez, V., & Estevez, R. (Under Review). "Centering Lived Experience in Mental Health Crisis Response Systems: The Role of Peer Support Workers." Psychiatric Services.
7. Zhang, A., Solomon, P., Wang, K., Yu, Z., Na, S., Chen, M., Weaver, A., & Spencer, M. (Under Review). "A Human-ML Collaborative Framework for Justice-Centered Statistical Machine Learning in Social Work Research." Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Book Chapters, Translations & Reports
1. Pilling, M. (Forthcoming). Mad Studies: The Basics (Na, S., Do, Y., Park, J., Song, S., Yu, K., & Jeon, A. Trans.). Seoul: Dongnyeok Press. (Original work published 2023).
2. Lee, S., Kwon, S., Oh, Y., Jung, H., Ko, E., Na, S., & Kim, Y. (2023). "2023 Survey on Workers and Status of Self-Sufficiency Enterprises" in Korea Development Institute for Self-Sufficiency and Welfare Reports. [in Korean].
3. Na, S., & Choi, I. (2021). "A Study on the Recovery Experience of People with Serious Mental Illness Who Participated in the Mental Health Consumer Movement: Focusing on Solidarity as an Alternative Relationship Formation," in The World Viewed Through Human Rights: People and Society. Seoul: Parkyoungsa. [in Korean].
4. Kahng, S., Je, C., Ha, K., Na, S., Park, J., Kim, K., Kim, J., et al. (2021). A Survey of Advanced Cases for Enhancing the Community Integration of the People with Severe Mental Illness. Seoul: National Human Rights Commission of Korea. [in Korean].
5. Lee, B., Park, J., Lee, S., Na, S., Joo, Y., Oh, Y., & Jang, Y. (2021). A Study on the Invention of the Scholarship Model for Donor Advised Funds. Seoul: Community Chest of Korea. [in Korean].