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Angel McKissic

Angel McKissic: “How I Make It Work”

“How I Make It Work” is a new blog feature designed to highlight the diversity of student experiences while attending MSP.  From students fresh out of undergrad to professionals who are retraining for a new career, MSP welcomes students wherever they are in life.  Angel McKissic (PTMA) shares her experience

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APA Div 44 Journal

Faculty & Student Research Published!

MSP is committed to supporting our faculty and students in pursuing academic scholarship outside of the classroom.  When faculty and students collaborate, our community grows stronger. Congratulations to Dr. Dustin Shepler (Core Faculty), Jared Smendik (PsyD 2), Kate Cusick (PsyD 4), and David Tucker (PsyD 4) on the publication of Predictors of sexual

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Andrea Obah

Andrea Obah: “How I Make It Work”

“How I Make It Work” is a new blog feature designed to highlight the diversity of student experiences while attending MSP.  From students fresh out of undergrad to professionals who are retraining for a new career, MSP welcomes students wherever they are in life.  Andrea Obah (MA) shares her experience

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Dr. Melissa Farrell

Continuing Ed Preview: LGBTQIA+ Moving Beyond the Acronym

MSP welcomes Melissa Farrell, PsyD, adjunct faculty member, on March 16, 2018 for a Continuing Education workshop, “Treating Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth” (3 CEUs).  Workshop participants will be introduced to clinical work with transgender and gender non-conforming youth and their families including the terms, techniques and concepts used to understand

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The Dangers of Domestic Violence & Substance Abuse

As part of the 2018 Continuing Education (CE) Series at MSP, Dr. Stephanie Zoltowski, PsyD will present “The Dangers of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse” workshop on Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Dr. Zoltowski offers the following as a workshop preview.   Every 9 seconds, a woman is assaulted and 1 in 3 women and

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Reflections from President Blau: Foster the Future

Each month Dr. Diane Blau, MSP President, shares what’s on her mind and in her heart regarding The Michigan School and the field of professional psychology.  Last fall, I presented a Matching Gift Challenge of $150,000 to the MSP community to Foster the Future. Foster the Future of a school

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Student Scholarship Award Winners 2017/18

MSP is committed to contributing annually to assist in student scholarships and aid. Scholarship and financial assistance funding is supported by gifts from alumni, family, and friends. Generally, funds are disbursed in the form of tuition credit. This academic year Jared Smendik (PsyD 2), was awarded the Jill Benton Humanistic

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Summer and Fall 2017 Research & Presentations

Research is an essential part of academic life at MSP.  The diverse clinical interests of our faculty and students create numerous opportunities for research collaborations and contributions.  We asked faculty and students to share research news from June 1, 2017 to the end of first semester. Lee Bach, PhD (Core Faculty)

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Ryan Blackstock, PsyD

The Game is On: Live Action Role-Playing Today

In 2006 I completed my dissertation[i] which studied individual’s experience of personality and identity through playing a sustained, self-generated character in the venue of Live Action Role-Playing (LARP). About 6 months after my work was complete, I left the LARP community. At the time, there didn’t seem to be much

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