Findings from Dr. Bry's ongoing studies of risk factors, parenting, and other correlates have supported the development and continuing evaluation of two manualized and preventive interventions-- the school-based Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program and the family-based Targeted Family Intervention. Because the former program has been designated by the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program and the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention as an effective strategy, Dr. Bry consults frequently with schools and agencies who are adopting the program. The empirical bases and implementation for both of her interventions are covered in her book with Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-based, School, and Community Interventions. Currently, Dr. Bry and her students are working with researchers at Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies' NIDA-funded Prevention Research Center to develop an efficacious substance abuse prevention program for urban school-based high school students

Research Interests and Clinical Work

Behavior analysis of adolescent substance abuse; prevention and early intervention of adolescent problems, including substance abuse, through coordinating community, family, and school interventions; family communications and problem-solving therapy.

Instructor for the Following Courses:

• Theoretical Foundations: Cognitive Behavioral
• Behavioral Family Intervention for Adolescent Problems
• Advanced Dissertation Research

Brenna H. Bry, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Psychology  

Email: bbry@rci.rutgers.edu