Lynch School of Education

Elizabeth Sparks

associate dean of graduate studies

Elizabeth Sparks

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Campion Hall
Room 135

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Boston College

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS
Prevention and intervention with children affected by community violence; multicultural issues in counseling psychology; the intersection of culture, race, and feminist psychology.

PUBLICATIONS
Hartling, L, & Sparks, E. (In Press). REPRINT: Relational-cultural practice: Working in a nonrelational world. Women and Therapy.

Kenny, M., Gualdron, L., Scanlon, D., Sparks, E., Blustein, D., & Jernigan, M. (accepted for publication). Urban adolescents’ constructions of supports and barriers to educational and career attainment. Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Sparks, E. (submitted for publication). Learning to be authentic with clients: The untold journey of a relational practitioner. In Bloomgarden, A. & Menuti, R. B. (Eds.), Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy. New York: Routledge.

Sparks, E. (2008). REPRINT: Human rights violations in the inner city: Implications for moral educators. In T. Lucey & K. Cooter (Eds.), Financial literacy for children and youth (chapter 18). Retrieved from Digitaltextbooks.biz database.

Kenny, M., Sparks, E., & Jackson, J. (2007). Social justice practice through interprofessional university-school collaboration. In Aldarondo, E. (Ed.). Promoting social justice through mental health practice (pp. 313-335). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Sparks, E. (2006). African Americans and mental health. In Y. Jackson (Ed.) Encyclopedia of multicultural psychology (pp. 21-27). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Sparks, E. (2006). Where am I going, and how do I get there?  Review of Bettis & Adams (Eds). (2005). Geographies of girlhood: Identities in-between. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30:2, (pp. 236-238)

Goodman, L., Liang, B., & Helms, J., Latta, R., Sparks, E., S.R. Weintraub (2004). Training Counseling Psychologists as Social Justice Agents: Feminist and Multicultural Principles in Action. The Counseling Psychologist, 32:6, 793-837.

Sparks, E. (2004). Relational experiences of delinquent girls: A case study. In M. Walker & W.B. Rosen (Eds.). How connections heal: Stories from relational-cultural therapy (pp. 233-252). New York: Guilford Press.

Sparks, E. (2003). African American adolescent males living in violent communities: Coping with interpersonal, assaultive violence. In B. Wallace & R. Carter (Eds.) Understanding and dealing with violence: A multicultural approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.