MSTAR mini-conference 2024
We are hosting our second annual MSTAR conference on May 4, 2024
Below we include a little information about the structure. All activities are free and some include an honorarium, thanks to grant-funded projects. The virtual talks must be uploaded due two weeks before the meeting (we will email directions).
Workshop Exchange Talks
9:00 to 10:30am
10:45 to 12:15am
Plenary Talks on Moral Injury
Virtual Poster Session
Early Career Networking or Training Opportunities
We also have a variety of grant-related opportunities for early career professionals to get involved with other doing work on MSTAR related themes.
Virtual (information sessions to discuss applications will occur in April)
Join an interdisciplinary measurement development reading group and team (3-4 spots). This group will also write several papers focused on measurement, including some from the Intellectual Humility Grant and the New Zealand Grant.
Grant writing workshop, focused on projects aimed at John Templeton Foundation online funding inquiries in August (20 seats)
Join a team that will lead peer-consultation groups focused on strength-focused approaches to addressing existential themes (will establish groups after 5/4)
Preconference Meetings on 5/2 and 5/3
Thursday, Life Worth Living pedagogy training, in partnership with Garrett Potts (30 seats; 6 fellowships funded at $3,000), apply here.
Friday, research retreat, Donnie Davis, Joshua Hook, and Daryl Van Tongeren(10 seats)
***APPLICATIONS CLOSED
The Ken Matheny Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (M-STAR) is hosting our second in a series of annual mini-conferences. The purpose of the series is to build relationships with research scholars at GSU and other universities, increase the national reputations of GSU and M-STAR, and build professional networks that will address important science-practice gaps. We especially want to prioritize the needs of early career researchers and clinicians.
Our second meeting (May 3-5) will focus moral injury with the plenary talks. The workshop exchange will also include updates from the theme from last year on Cultural Humility and the Multicultural Orientation (MCO) framework.
We chose moral injury for our second talk because we wanted our partners to learn about groundbreaking work in this area. The theme blends research programs positive psychology (i.e., the study of human strengths, flourishing, and resilience) that have broad implications for practice.
Many of the scholars doing research in this area are psychologists or counselor educators, and we want to provide a context for relationship to form and grow. Our hope for the meeting is that people will develop professional friendships that may last for many years, and that many fruitful collaborations and conversations will occur in the years that follow the meeting.
The virtual poster session (May 3) is a way for us to broadcast a wide range of projects led by people connected to M-STAR. Posters are especially encouraged from graduate students or those early in their career paths. Posters can be linked to this year’s MCO theme or to ongoing interests of the center that touch on stress, trauma, and resilience.
We have some initial ideas for future CE sessions:
Perfectionism
Working with cultural countertransference or reactions to clients
Integrating positive psychology into the mainstream of psychotherapy
Approaches to integrating deliberate practice into the training of psychologists and counselors
Methodology workshop on measurement of stress
Methodology workshop on making causal inference with longitudinal data
If you have reactions to these ideas or want to recommend topics for CE sessions, or you have ideas for a theme for future meetings, please email Dr. Don Davis (ddavis88@gsu.edu).
When you register for the conference, you can also provide us additional requests for trainings that would be helpful for you and your colleagues.
Directions for CEs: Make sure to sign-in; complete the four evaluation forms (we will release as talks finish)
CE form for session #1-MCO talks
CE form for session #2-existential coping talks
CE form for session #3-Brandon Griffin
CE form for session #4-Joe Currier