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Find MSP at Division 32

This year’s APA Division 32: The Society for Humanistic Psychology Conference is taking place from March 26-29, 2026 at the Red Bluff Community Center in Red Bluff, CA. The theme of this year’s conference is “Generational Equity – Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future.” If you’ll be in attendance, make

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Research Retrospective: MSP Scholarly Activity and Impact, 2015-2025

We’re pleased to present highlights from a retrospective analysis of MSP research activities from 2015-2025 conducted by Georgia Seely, Library Associate. MSP scholarship grew exponentially over the last decade, producing 53 publications by 50 unique authors, which were cited 506 times. Students played a significant role in both productivity and

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Self-Care During Winter Break

Self-care is one of the best ways we can show ourselves kindness, and the rest of winter break provides us with the perfect opportunity to reset, reflect, and engage in self-care. Once winter break draws to an end, these can still be useful tools to help beat the winter blues.

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Five Tips for Getting Started on Research

Getting started with research can feel intimidating, especially if you have never done it before. I remember feeling the same way at the beginning of my own journey. It is easy to assume you need a fully developed idea or some big, groundbreaking plan, but research rarely starts like that.

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Get to Know the Research Graduate Assistant

Nosa Obaseki (MA ‘ 21, PsyD 3) Position: Research Graduate Assistant Tell us a little bit about your role. My primary role is to help make research more accessible to students at MSP by creating pathways for them to engage with scholarship in ways that feel approachable, empowering, and meaningful.

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Emergence and Embodiment in the Spirit of Halloween

Despite how much labor goes into a dissertation, it seems rare that one gets to speak about it casually. With other clinicians there may be some mutual academic interest, or if nothing else, to know how someone else paid their dues to earn a doctorate. This has been my experience

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MA Program Announcement

The Michigan School of Psychology is proud to announce its intention to seek American Psychological Association (APA) accreditation of its Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology program. In 2018, the APA Commission on Accreditation (APA-CoA) began working on developing standards, policies, and procedures for accrediting master’s programs in health service

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2024-2025 Year in Review

As the 2024-2025 academic year winds to a close it brings us more than just bittersweet goodbyes, it also provides us a unique opportunity to reflect back on all that our community has done this year.  Join us as we reflect back on some of the biggest moments of the

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Studying for the EPPP and BCBA

Following the successful completion of any MSP program, graduates must pass at least one more examination on their journey to become licensed, in addition to completing the required post-grad clinical hours. In the State of Michigan, MA graduates must score a 350 and PsyD graduates must score 500 on the Examination

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