Elizabeth Sparks

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Campion Hall
Room 305

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617.552.0698

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.

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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).

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.

Hartling, L, & Sparks, E. (2002). Relational-cultural practice: Working in a nonrelational world. Work in Progress, No. 97, Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.

Sparks, E. (2002). Depression and schizophrenia in women: The intersection of gender, race/ethnicity and class. In M. Ballou & L.S. Brown (Eds.). Rethinking mental health and disorder: Feminist Perspectives (pp. 279-305). New York: Guilford Press.

Sparks, E. (2001). Community mental health in urban America: The challenge of managed care. In M. Seedat (Ed.) Community Psychology in South Africa: Contemporary Issues in Community Psychology Theory, Research, and Practice (pp. 383-399). Capetown, S.A.: Oxford University Press Southern Africa.

Lerner, R.M., Sparks, E. & McCubbin, L.D. (2000). Family diversity and family policy. In Demo, D.H., Allen, K.R. & Fine, M.A. (Eds.), Handbook of Family Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sparks, E. and Park, A. (2000). The integration of feminism and multiculturalism: Ethical dilemmas at the border. In M. Brabeck, (Ed.) Practicing feminist ethics in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Sparks, E. (1999). The role of counseling psychology in full-service schools. In R. Tourse and J. Mooney (Eds.). Collaborative practice: School and human service partnerships (pp. 219-238). Westport, CN: Praeger.

Lerner, R.M., Sparks, E. E. & McCubbin, L.D. (1999). Family diversity and family policy: Strengthening families for America’s children . Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Sparks, E. (1998). Against all odds: Resistance and resilience in African-American welfare mothers. In Garcia Coll, C., Surrey, J. & Weingarten, K. (Eds.) Mothering Against the Odds. New York: Guilford.

[Reprinted as a Work in Progress Paper (No. 81, 1999). Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.]

Braebeck, M., Cawthorne, J., Cochran-Smith, M., Gaspard, N., Green, C.H., Kenny, M., Krawczyk, R., Lowery, C., Lykes, M.B., Mooney, J., Ross, C., Savage, J., Soifer, A., Smyer, M., Sparks, E., Tourse, R., Waddock, S., Walsh, M., & Zollers, N. (1998). Changing the culture of the university to engage in outreach scholarship. In R.M. Lerner & L.A.K. Simon (Eds.), Creating the New Outreach University for America's Youth and Families: Building University-Community Collaborations for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Garland Press.

Sparks, E. (1996a). The Challenges Facing Community Health Centers in the 1990's: A Voice Form the Inner City , in Lykes, Banuazizi, & Liem (Eds), Myths About the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Sparks, E. (1996b). Overcoming Stereotypes of Mothers in the African American Context. In Wyche, K. & Crosby, F.J., Women's Ethnicities: Journeys Through Psychology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

[Reprinted in D.L. Anselmi & A.L. Law (Eds.). (1998). Questions of Gender: Perspectives and Paradoxes (pp. 220-232). Boston: McGraw Hill.]

Sparks, E. (1996c). A pilot study of coping processes utilized by African-American male adolescents living in violent communities. Paper presented at the APA Conference, Toronto, Canada. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 402-363)

Sparks, E. (1995a). Women in context: Toward a feminist reconstruction of psychotherapy. M.P. Mirkin, (Ed).. Reviewed in Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 1:1, 73-74.

Sparks, E. (1995b). Violence in America: How is the problem of urban youth violence defined in the psychological literature? Paper presented at the APA Conference, New York, NY. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 388-747)

Sparks, E. (1994a). Human Rights Violations in the Inner-City: Implications for Moral Educators, Journal of Moral Education. 23:3, 315-332.

Sparks, E. (1994b). Psychologists in new schools: A new role definition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration, Philadelphia, PA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 411-499).

Sparks, E. (1993). What does community-based violence mean to ethnic-minority, inner-city adolescents?. Proceedings from the First Annual Symposium for Mental Health Professionals of Color (Massachusetts Department of Mental Health). Boston: Basic Health Management, Inc.