Research
How do mental health service systems and their workforce support recovery and equitable access to care?
My research examines how mental health service systems and the workforce that staffs them support recovery and equitable access to care. It moves across three connected areas, recovery-oriented practice and the peer workforce that delivers it, help-seeking and sustained engagement in services, and the growing role of technology in how care is sought and delivered.
Computational social science holds these areas together. I combine quantitative, computational, and mixed-methods approaches, including machine learning, natural language processing, structural topic modeling, causal inference, and evidence synthesis, to open sources of evidence that mental health services research has barely touched.
Three Connected Areas
Recovery-Oriented Practice & the Peer Workforce
How practitioners translate recovery values into care, and how systems define, integrate, and compensate the peer specialists who carry them.
Help-Seeking & Sustained Engagement
How language, stigma, and social context shape who reaches mental health services and who stays.
Technology & Mental Health Care
How digital and AI tools are changing the way care is sought and delivered, and where the human relationship remains essential.
Research Map
My work forms one connected program across three areas. The papers between two hubs are bridges, where technology meets the peer workforce and where it meets help-seeking. Hover or tap a node for the paper, click to open it, and scroll or use the buttons to zoom.
You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. Zhang, A., Solomon, P., Wang, K., Yu, Z., Na, S., Chen, M., Weaver, A., & Spencer, M. (in press). "A Human-ML Collaborative Framework for Justice-Centered Statistical Machine Learning in Social Work Research." Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
2. Na, S., & Solomon, P. (2026). Individual and Organizational Factors Influencing Recovery-Promoting Competency Among Mental Health Practitioners. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 49(3), 276–288. Read online
3. Na, S., Tham, S., & Solomon, P. (2026). "Cultural Humility and Recovery-Promoting Competencies Among Mental Health Practitioners: The Mediating Role of Recovery Attitudes." Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. (Online First). Read online
4. Na, S., Solomon, P., & Yoo, N. (2026). "Impact of Asian Language-Speaking Mental Health Providers on Asian American Patient Volume in Mental Health Treatment Facilities: Moderating Role of Medicaid Spending." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. (Online First). Read online
5. Tham, S., Na, S., & Solomon, P. (2026). "Factors Influencing the Implementation of Peer Support Specialists within Mobile Crisis Teams: A Scoping Review of CFIR Domains and Implementation Strategies." Psychological Services, 23(3), 441–461. Read online
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
Book Chapters and Translations
1. Pilling, M. (2026). Maedeuseudi-ro-ui chodae [Mad Studies: The Basics] (Korean Society of Disability Studies Mad Studies Subcommittee, Na, S., Do, Y., Park, J., Song, S., Yoo, K., & Jeon, A., Trans.). Seoul: Dongnyeok. (Original work published 2023). ISBN 9788972972204.
2. 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].
Manuscripts Under Review
1. Na, S., & Solomon, P. (Revised & Resubmitted). "Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going: Mapping the Evolution of Personal Recovery Scholarship in Serious Mental Illness Through Structural Topic Modeling." Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
2. Yu, H., Na, S., Zhang, A., & Solomon, P. (Revised & Resubmitted). "The Indirect Effect of Bullying on Student School Belonging Through Online Vigilance: A Gender-Specific Pattern." Youth & Society.
3. Kim, I. A., Na, S., & Solomon, P. (Revised & Resubmitted). "Self-Stigma, Sense of Belonging, and Help-Seeking Across Professional and Informal Contexts Among East Asian Postsecondary Students." Journal of College Student Development.
4. Na, S., Yoon, A. S., Oh, H., & Solomon, P. (Revised & Resubmitted). "When Do Students Turn to AI for Counseling? Internalized Shame as a Pathway from Diminished Social Support Among Korean College Students." Computers in Human Behavior Reports.
5. Na, S., Tham, S., Dunn, C., Assoudeh, E., Watson, S., Rahman, A., Jackson, N., Grant, L., Enders, G., Clarke, M., Peterson, P., Lopez, V., Estevez, R., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "Organizational Challenges and Strategies for Integrating Peer Support Workers Into Crisis and Emergency Response Teams: A Qualitative Study in New York City." Community Mental Health Journal.
6. Na, S., Kim, I. A., & Solomon, P. (Under Review). "Predictors of Early Mental Health Treatment Dropout in Postsecondary Students with Serious Mental Illness: A Gradient Boosting Approach." Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research.
7. Na, S., & Yoo, N. (Under Review). "Payer Differences in Consumer Experience Themes From Online Mental Health Facility Reviews." Psychiatric Services.
8. Na, S., Solomon, P., Fortuna, M., Rogers, T., & Fortuna, K. L. (Under Review). "Post-COVID Digital Peer Support Interventions for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review of Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness." Psychiatric Services.
9. Yu, H., Na, S., Solomon, P., & Zhang, A. (Under Review). "The Indirect Effect of Bullying on Student School Belonging Through Perceived Safety: A Gender-Specific Pattern." School Mental Health.
10. 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.
Work in Progress
1. Tham, S., Na, S., Solomon, P., Dunn, C., Assoudeh, E., Enders, G., Clarke, M., Peterson, P., Watson, S., Rahman, A., Lopez, V., & Estevez, R. (In preparation). "Developing Lived Experience Expertise: A Conceptual Framework for Peer Support Specialists in Mental Health Crisis Response."
2. Na, S., Kuyken, W., & Yoon, A. S. (In preparation). "Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Mental Health General Education Course on Depressive Symptoms and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Korean University Students: A Randomized Comparison of Mindfulness Home Practice and Reflective Bibliotherapy."
3. Na, S., Kim, I. A., Zhang, A., & Solomon, P. (In preparation). "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Stigma-Reduction Interventions Among Asian Populations."
4. Yoo, N., Na, S., & Gandhi, S. (In preparation). "Generative Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Health Peer Support: A Scoping Review."