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How Pinterest Can Help Your Practice

Pinterest? Help in therapy? Assist my business? And you thought it was just for amassing ideas for craft projects and menu items that you probably won’t ever actually attempt. Nope. Pinterest does have tons of ideas of crafting, hobbies, and homemaking, but it is also much more. I like to

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President Diane Blau

Welcome!

Welcome to the Michigan School of Professional Psychology! We have been eagerly preparing for your arrival. To students new to MSP, you are about to enter a significant academic endeavor, one that promises to promote personal and professional growth. To those returning, dynamic learning opportunities await. All of you enter

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Effective Therapy

How effective is therapy? What makes therapy more effective? And, what evidence bears on answering these questions? Key findings from a series of recent meta-analyses, statistical procedures that combine the results of many studies and are viewed as the strongest basis for drawing scientific conclusions, have yielded the following, often

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Hannah Kay Allen-Miller

Congrats 2014 PsyD Grads!

Congratulations to all of our 2014 PsyD graduates! Read about their dissertation research below. Dissertations will be available to students, faculty, and staff in the ProQuest database this fall. Lena Agree The Experience of Being in a Long Term, Monogamous, Heterosexual Relationship That Regularly Incorporates BDSM This study examined the

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Congrats 2014 MA Grads!

Congratulations 2014 MA graduates! Meagan C. Ahlijian Matthew Anthony Bitonti Erin Rebecca Brandt Nicholas David Capaul Brenann E. Couturier Evisa Maksim Cuko Brittany Marie DeFrain Sarah Elizabeth DuVall Elizabeth Rosemary Frederick Judith Ann Gilbert Laura Michelle Gilboe Janis Glotkowski Benita Paulette Jackson Meghan Jo Jansen Kevin Patrick Johnson Lisa Eve

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Online therapy: Where we are and where we need to go

The following post is the abstract from a poster presentation at the 122nd annual Convention of the American Psychological Association presented by MSP Core Faculty member Dustin K. Shepler, PhD and MSP doctoral students: Melanie Ho, Priscilla Zoma, and Jessica Dluzynski.   Title: Online therapy: Where we are and where

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Psychology Career Motivation: Were You a Parentified Child?

parentify \ parentification \ vb: A distortion of the parent/children relationship, where the child is made responsible for caretaking of parents or primary caregivers. Can be: 1) instrumental – child completes concrete functions to support of family (i.e., grocery shopping, paying bills); or 2) expressive – child attempts to fill

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A Year of Yoga—A Year of Trauma Recovery

This story originally appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of Yoga Therapy Today which is published by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. This is the story of Anna, who has taught me much about yoga and healing. She is a survivor of long-term, childhood, complex trauma. I worked with

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