Student Programming

Purpose

Students visit with therapy dogs from Dr. Paws.

Student Programming at MSP is focused on enriching the student academic experience through educational and social activities.  Our goal is to create opportunities for students to have fun, be creative, and deepen their connection to each other and to the larger MSP community.  

Fundraising for local nonprofit organizations is an essential part of Programming.  Throughout the academic year, students have the opportunity to support organizations such as HAVEN, Sanctum House, The Metta Yoga Project, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Affirmations, Micah 6 Community, and more.

Monthly Programming Model

Our Monthly Programming Model creates a direct connection between programming activities and academic material to spark creativity and foster a deeper connection with the key tenets of humanistic psychology.  Each academic year, a new overall theme is developed with a month by month sub-theme that inspires engaging activities and initiatives on campus.

Our “Lessons from Our Alumni” Series was inspired by several excellent guest alumni lectures during the 2018/19 academic year. We decided to invite more alums back this year, to share the clinical lessons they have learned with our current students.

Each month, we will invite alumni back to campus who share expertise in a particular clinical issue. Each alum will discuss their experience with the issue, including any research they may have completed at MSP (dissertation, on a research team) or after graduation. Our goal is twofold: first, to highlight and more deeply investigate critical clinical issues that students will face in clinical practice and second, to connect recent alums with current students who may share their clinical passion.

Additionally, each month will feature at least one complementary event on the same or similar clinical issue. For example, in September we welcome Dr. Michael Kimball to speak on his dissertation topic of client suicide; later in the month, Team MSP will march in the Metro Detroit Out of the Darkness Walk in support of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Lessons from Our Alumni Series 2019/20

September – Client Suicide

• September 18 Surviving the Tsunami: The Clinician’s Experience of Client Suicide  Michael Kimball, MA (’10), PsyD (’15)
• September 28 Out of the Darkness Walk 

October – PTSD & Law Enforcement

• October 3 A Comparison of PTSD Symptoms of Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Responded to Critical Incidents Involving Death Richard Janka, PsyD (’12)
• October 25 Film Screening: Buried Above Ground 

November – Male Sexual Offender Treatment

• November 19  Adult Male Sexual Offender Treatment: The Relationship of Schemas, Working Alliance, and Treatment Outcome Jill Norbury-Jaranson, PsyD (’16)
• HAVEN training – details TBD

January – Dieting and Body Image

February – Parenting a Child with Autism

March – African American Female Experience

April – Animal Assisted Psychotherapy

May – TBD

June – TBD