Research

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SPARK Research Resources

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Mission, vision, and illustration of SPARK in practice (link to Ruggiero et al (2017) paper: https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.201600548?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed)

Interviews with nationally certified trainers (link to Hanson et al (2014) paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758397/)

Initial development and usability testing of SPARK (link to Ruggiero et al (2015) paper: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2015/4/e143/)

Pilot testing of SPARK with community agencies (link to Davidson et al (2019) paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511883/)

Design of our large multi-site study (link to Anton et al. (2020) paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357202/)

Early data from our multi-site study (link to Shanholtz et al (2023) paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10597-023-01099-w)

This presentation describes recent SPARK results, presented by our team at the 6th Conference for the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration.

Presentation on perceived improvement from SPARK.

This presentation describes the perceived improvement of child engagement and clinician adherence to TF-CBT while using SPARK. It was presented at the 25th NIMH Conference on Mental Health Services Research

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