Core Concepts and Interventions From the Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) Model

This one-day workshop provides an overview of SPARCS, a 16- week group intervention specifically designed to address the needs of chronically traumatized adolescents who may still be living with ongoing stress and are experiencing problems in several areas of functioning. These areas include difficulties with affect regulation and impulsivity, self-perception, and relationships; somatization, dissociation, numbing and avoidance; and struggles with their own purpose and meaning in life, as well as worldviews that make it difficult for them to see a future for themselves. The workshop teaches specific core concepts and skills of the model easily integrated into daily practice.