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SHERECCE FIELDS

P ERSONAL HISTORY

Address: **** *. ****** ***., *** 4118G

Department of Psychology

University of South Florida

Tampa, Fl 33620

Telephone:813-***-****

E-Mail: abpmyz@r.postjobfree.com

E DUCATION

1994 - 1998 Duke University Durham, NC

B.S. Psychology and Chemistry

2001 Present University of South Florida Tampa, FL

M.A. Clinical Psychology

Doctoral Candidate, Clinical Psychology

Major Professor: Vicky Phares, PhD

M EMBERSHIPS

2003-2005 Campus Representative, American Psychological Association of Graduate Students

2002-2003 Committee Member (Undergraduate Honor s Thesis), Clinical Psychology, USF

2001-2004 Class Representative, Clinical Psychology, University of South Florida

2001-present Student Member, American Psychological Association

2003-present Student Member, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy

2005-present Student Member, Society for Research in Child Development

H ONORS AND AWARDS

2001-2004 Graduate Educational Opportunities Grant

2004 Valerie Reed Memorial Award, University of South Florida

1997 Duke Undergradaute Research Support Grant

1997-1998 Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Grant

1995, 1998 Martin Lynn Posey Scholarship, Duke University

C ONFERENCE POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Phares, V., Fields, S., & Kamboukos, D. (June 2002). Fathers and mothers involvement with their

adolescents. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society,

New Orleans, LA.

Phares, V., Watkins, M.M., Fields, S., & Han, S. (August 2002). Race/ethnicity and self-esteem in

families of adolescents. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological

Association, Chicago, IL.

Fields, S. (April 2003). Differentiating Learning Diasabled and Low Achieveing Youth in a Clinic Setting. Poster

presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Phares, V., Abdullatif, Q., & Fields, S. (August 2003). Standardized Assessments and Race/ Ethnicity of Clients

and Examiners. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association,

Toronto, Canada.

Karver, M., Fields, S., Day, R., & Handelsman, J.(November 2003). The Alliance Observation Coding System.

Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.

Fields, S., Handelsman, J., Karver, M., & Bickman, L. (March 2004). Parental and Child Factors that Affect the

Therapeutic Alliance. Paper presented at the 17th Annual m eeting of the Florida Mental Health Institute s A

System of Care for Children s Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base, Tampa, FL.

Phares, V., Curley, J., Binitie, I., Fields, S., & Rojas, A. (October 2004). The connections between parental

individual therapy and adolescents emotional/behavioral problems. Poster presented at Kansas Conference on

Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology., Lawrence, KS.

Karver, M., Handelsman, J., Fields, S., & Bickman, L. (October 2004). A theoretical model of common process

factors in youth and family therapy. Poster presented at Kansas Conference on Clinical Child and Adolescent

Psychology, Lawrence, KS.

Karver, M., Fields, S., Totura, C., & Tarquini, C. (February 2005). The Therapeutic Relationship: What Do We

Know and What More Can We Learn? Paper presented at University of South Florida Psychiatry Grand

Rounds Series (CME Credits), Tampa, Fl.

Kamboukos, D., Rojas, A., Curley, J., Binitie, I., Fields, S., & Phares, V. (April 2005). Protective Factors and later

competence in adolescents. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Tampa, Fl.

Binitie, I., Curley, J., Fields, S., Kamboukos, D., Rojas, A. & Phares, V. (April 2005). How nonclinical are

Nonclinical Samples? Poster presented at the Biennnial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Tampa, Fl.

P UBLICATIONS

Phares, V., Watkins, M.M., & Fields, S. (In Press). Mothers and fathers roles in normal child development. In T.H.

Ollendick & C.S. Schroeder (Eds.), Encyclopedia of pediatric and child psychology. New York: Plenum.

Karver, M., Handelsman, J., Fields, S., & Bickman, L. (2005). A theoretical model of common process factors in

youth and family therapy. Mental Health Services Research, 7(1), 35-52.

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Phares, V., Fields, S., Kamboukos, D. & Lopez, E. (2005). Still looking for poppa: The continued lack of attention

to the role of fathers in developmental psychopathology. American Psychologist, 60(7), 735-736.

Phares, V., Lopez, E., Fields, S., Kamboukos, D. & Duhig, A. (2005). Are fathers involved in pediatric psychology

research and treatment? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 30, 631-643.

Phares, V., Fields, S., Watkins, M.M., Kamboukos, D. & Han, S. (2005). Race/ethnicity and self-esteem in families

of adolescents. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 27(3), 13-26.

Karver, M., Handelsman, J., Fields, S., & Bickman, L. (2006). Meta-analysis of common process factors in youth

and family therapy: The evidence for different relationship variables in child and adolescent treatment outcome

literature. Clinical Psychology review, 26, 50-65.

Phares, V., Fields, S., Binitie, I. (In Press). Getting fathers involved in child and family therapy. Cognitive and

Behavioral Practice.

Fields, S., Handelsman, J., Karver, M., & Bickman, L. (Submitted). Parental and Child Factors that Affect the

Therapeutic Alliance.

Phares, V., Renk, K., Duhig, A., Fields, S., & Sly, J. (Submitted). Gender Differences in positive and negative

feelings between adolescents and their fathers and mothers.

Phares, V., Fields, S., & Kamboukos, D. (Submitted). Fathers and mothers involvement with their adolescents.

Fields, S. & Phares, V. (Submitted). Differentiating Learning Diasabled and Low Achieveing Youth in a Clinic

Setting.

Fields, S. & Phares, V. (Submitted) Assessor effects on the evaluation of intelligence.

Phares, V., Abdullatif, Q., & Fields, S. (Submitted). Standardized Assessments and Race/ Ethnicity of Clients and

Examiners.

Curley, J., Binitie, I., Fields, S., Rojas, A.., & Phares, V. (Submitted). The connections between parental individual

therapy and adolescents emotional/behavioral problems.

Kamboukos, D., Rojas, A., Curley, J., Binitie, I., Fields, S., & Phares, V. (Manuscript in Preparation). Protective

Factors and later competence in adolescents.

Binitie, I., Curley, J., Fields, S., Kamboukos, D., Rojas, A. & Phares, V. (Manuscript in Preparation). How

nonclinical are Nonclinical Samples?

Karver, M., Shirk, S., Handelsman, J., Fields, S., Dent, H., & Spirito, A. (Manuscript in Preparation). Relationship

Processes in Youth Psychotherapy: Measuring Alliance, Alliance Enhancing Behaviors, and Collaboration.

Fields, S., Karver, M., Schut, L., & Bickman, L. (Manuscript in Preparation). Measurement in children s mental

heath services :a critical review of existing instruments.

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Fields, S., Totura, C., Karver, M., & Tarquini, C. (Manuscript in Preparation). The Therapeutic Relationship: What

Do We Know and What More Can We Learn?

Bickman, L., Lambert, W., Fields, S., Totura, C. & Karver, M. (Manuscript in Preparation). Characteristics of

Therapeutic Alliance Measures Used in Youth Mental Health Treatment.

O THER MANUSCRIPTS

Karver, M., Caporino, N., Fields, S., & Handelsman, J. (2004). Rater s manual for Observing Developmental

Differences in the Therapeutic Alliance. Unpublished Manuscript. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Karver, M., Caporino, N., Fields, S., & Handelsman, J. (2004). Rater s manual for Observing Developmental

Differences in Therapeutic Alliance Formation. Unpublished Manuscript. University of South Florida, Tampa,

FL.

Karver, M., Shirk, S., Day, R., & Fields, S. (2002). Rater s manual for the Alliance Obseration Checklist.

Unpublished Manuscript. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

R ESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Summer 2005 Research Assistant, Department of Child and Family Studies, FMHI, Tampa, Fl

School-based Mental Health Monograph Review article examining the

effectiveness of school-based mental health projects. Duties: literature review,

project formulation, manuscript preparation. (Supervisor: Krista Kutash, PhD)

Psychiatric easures Review Chapter examining the psycometric properties

and effectiveness of competence measures for children and adolescents.

Duties: literature review, manuscript preparation. (Supervisor: Krista Kutash,

PhD)

School-based Mental Health Parent Support Project Study designed to

determine the effect of training teachers to include parents in school and

providing support systems to parents on the outcomes of youth with social and

emotional problems. Duties: interviewing parents, measure development.

(Supervisor: Krista Kutash, PhD)

2002-present Research Assistant, Department of Psychology (USF), Tampa, FL

Child and Adolescent Therapeutic Alliance Project (Cassette Coding) Study

designed to develop a coding system based on taped therapy sessions for

therapeutic alliance in children and adolescents. Duties: coding system

design, experimental design, coding tapes, poster presentation (Supervisor:

Marc Karver, PhD).

Child and Adolescent Therapeutic Alliance Project (Video Coding) - Study

designed to develop a coding system based on taped therapy sessions for the

therapeutic alliance in children and adolescents. Duties: coding system

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design, experimental design, coding tapes, literature review (Supervisor: Marc

Karver, PhD).

2001-present Research Assistant, Department of Psychology (USF), Tampa, FL

Race/Ethnicity and Standardized Assessments Project Studied whether the

match between ethnicity of examiner and examinee was related to the scores

obtained on standardized assessments. Duties: data collection, data analysis,

study design, poster presentation, manuscript preparation, grant proposal

preparation (Supervisor: Vicky Phares, PhD).

Clinican Survey Project Study designd to determine which factors influence

therapists invitation to parents to be involved in treatment with their children

and adolescents. Duties: design and maintenance of the data collection

website, study design. (Supervisor: Vicky Phares, PhD)

1999-2000 Research Assistant, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Durham, NC

Smoking Cessation Project Studied whether a telephone intervention could

help adolescents to quit smoking. Duties: Used motivational interviewing

techniques over the phone to counsel adolescents to quit smoking,

experimental design, training of future interviewers, piloting study. (Supervisor:

Isaac Lipkus, PhD)

Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer Risk Projects Studied whether informing

subjects of their true risk for cancer will affect their perceptions of their risk

and consequent health behaviors. Duties: instrument design, managing

laboratory interviews, conducting interviews, study management. (Supervisor:

Isaac Lipkus, PhD)

Risk Perception Project Studied whether the method of presenting risk

influenced individuals perceptions of their risk for disease. Duties: data entry,

conducting interviews. (Supervisor: Isaac Lipkus, PhD)

1998-2000 Summer Interviewer/Tutor, Duke Fast Track Program, Durham, NC

Fast Track Project Studied whether an early intervention with at-risk children

will lead to improved outcome after high school. Duties: Tutored students in

the program in English and Math, conducted interviews for the project in

homes of participants with parents and students.

G RANT EXPERIENCE

Individual National Research Service Award, Minority Predoctoral Fellowship (F31)

Status: Under review

C LINICAL EXPERIENCE

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2004-2005 Psychology Extern, Hillsborough County Public Schools

Duties: Intake interviews, individual and group psychotherapy, classroom

psychoeducational group therapy, teacher consultation. Common client

concerns include anxiety disorders, mood disorders, suicidal ideation and

behavior, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorders

and childhood aggression.

Supervisor: Marcia Pita, PhD

2001-present Psychology Trainee, Psychological Services Center, USF, Tampa, FL

Duties: Intake interviews, individual psychotherapy, behavioral parent training,

teacher consultation for children and adolescents, assessments for

children, adolescents, and adults. Common client concerns include

anxiety disorders, suicidal ideation and behavior, attention deficit

hyperactivity disorder, and childhood aggression.

Supervisors: Marc Karver, PhD, Vicky Phares, PhD, and Andrea Friedman,

PhD

2001 Psychology Trainee, Tampa Children s Hospital, Tampa, FL

Duties: Social skills training groups for children and adolescents. Common

client concerns include Aspergers, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,

obssessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, and childhood aggression.

Supervisor: Jonathan Greenstein, PhD

T EACHING EXPERIENCE

2005 Instructor, Personality, Department of Psychology (USF), Tampa, FL

2004 Instructor, Psychological Science I, Department of Psychology (USF), Tampa, FL

2003 Instructor, Abnormal Child Psychology, Department of Psychology (USF), Tampa, FL

2003 Instructor, Child Psychology, Department of Psychology (USF), Tampa, FL

2002-2003 Teaching Assistant, Psychological Assessment, Department of Psychology (USF),

Tampa, FL

2001-2002 Teaching Assistant, Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Psychology (USF),

Tampa, FL

1999-2000 Science Teacher, Brogden Middle School, Durham, NC

1998-2000 Instructor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC

1998-1999 Teaching Assistant, Duke Talent Identification Program, Durham, NC

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