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Jacqueline A. Sparks
Highest Degree:
Ph.D. in
Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Other Credentials:
Clinical
Member, AAMFT; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist;
Approved
Supervisor, AAMFT
Teaching interests:
Client-directed, outcome informed approaches to change; historical and
political contexts of family therapy; working with families in natural
environments; transforming systems of care to privilege client goals
and preferences.
Scholarly and creative interests:
Outcome Rating Scale (ORS),
Session Rating Scale (SRS), and Child Outcome Rating Scale (CORS)
validation projects. Monitoring client feedback to inform
therapy.
Outcome Rating Scale (ORS),
Session Rating Scale (SRS), and Child Outcome Rating Scale (CORS)
validation projects. Monitoring client feedback to inform
therapy.
Co-founder of
heroicagenices.org, an international network promoting client
direction in mental health practice.
Family Violence
Research (VOICES)—Grant
from Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Family therapy and mediation in the resolution of family violence.
The
Ethics and Science of Medicating Children.
Critical examination of medical approaches to the resolution of child
and adolescent distress.
Dissertation: Media Madness: The Social Construction of Mental
Illness in Popular Culture.
Selected Publications (2000 to present):
Sparks, J., & Duncan, B. (2004). The ethics and science of medicating
children. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 6(1), 25-40.
Duncan, B.,
Miller, S., & Sparks, J. (2004). The heroic client: A revolutionary
way to improve effectiveness through client-directed, outcome-informed
therapy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Duncan, B. &
Sparks, J. (2003). Heroic clients, heroic agencies: Partners for
change, Revised.
Chicago:
ISTC Press.
Duncan, B. L.,
Miller, S. D., & Sparks, J. A. (2003). Interactional and
solution-focused brief therapies: Evolving concepts of relationship
and change. In T. Sexton, G. Weeks, & M. Robbins (Eds.), Handbook
of Family Therapy, 3rd ed., Brunner/Mazel: New York.
Sparks, J. A.
(2002). Taking a stand: An adolescent girl’s resistance to medication.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 28 (1), 27-38.
Sparks, J. A.
(2002). Taking a stand: Challenging medical discourse. Journal of
Marital and Family Therapy, 28 (1), 51-59.
Sparks, J. A. (2000). The deconstruction of magic: Rereading,
rethinking Erickson. Family Process, 39 (3), 307-318.
Links:
http://www.aamft.org
http://www.talkingcure.com
http://heroicagencies.org
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213 Transition
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Transition
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2 Lower College Rd
Kingston, RI 02881 |
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Email: |
jsparks@uri.edu |
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Phone: |
(401) 874-7425 |
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(401) 874-4020 |
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