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All the areas (the topics in the programme) are organised in a model that consists of Self-category, Being category, Doing category, and Social category
The model
The content of PSP
This is the list of all the topics and their short description:
THE SELF CATEGORY
01. Self-awareness: obstacles to self-awareness and methods to overcome them
02. Relating to oneself: acceptance and rejection; guilt and shame
03. Personal change: various stages in the process of intentional change
04. Self-valuation: self-respect, self-esteem, modesty, conceit and vanity
05. Feelings: the purpose; awareness of feelings; how to relate to and affect feelings
06. Emotions: various ways of directing emotional reactions
07. Excitement: the purpose; the ways to control, reduce and increase excitement
08. Moods: the purpose; the relationship between moods and situation; affecting moods
09. Learning: learning styles; the process of learning; retention
10. Reasoning: the types and causes of distorted thinking; objectivity; realistic thinking
11. Creative thinking: fantasy; imagination; factors that affect creative thinking
12. Inner structure: integration and organisation of mental processes
13. Harmonisation: sources and types of personal conflicts; ways of resolving them
14. Stability: consequences of (in)stability; maintaining stability; tension
15. Self-discipline: the purpose; external and internal discipline; developing discipline
16. Development: indicators of development; factors that influence development
THE BEING CATEGORY
17. Courage: the purpose of fear and courage; methods of dealing with fear
18. Confidence: the locus; factors that affect confidence; the level of confidence
19. Anticipatory attitude: negative attitudes (worrying); positive attitudes
20. Security: external and internal sources of security
21. To live: factors that affect the fullness of experience; risk taking
22. Openness: regulation and direction of openness
23. Interest: the importance of interest; dealing with boredom
24. Pleasure: pleasure and happiness; the purpose; the experience of pleasure
25. Relating to death: acceptance and denial; dealing with the fear of death
26. Importance: consequences and factors that affect importance
27. Attachment: attachment, non-attachment and detachment
28. Resilience: denial, suppression, firmness; factors that affect resilience
29. Awareness: factors and characteristics of awareness
30. The past: attachment, blaming, avoiding, facing, accepting the past
31. The future: expectations, hopes, predictions
32. The present: presence; acceptance and rejection of the immediate situation
THE DOING CATEGORY
33. Meaning: purpose and locus of meaning; commitment
34. Freedom: dealing with physical, social and personal determinants
35. Responsibility: developing and the ways of avoiding personal responsibility
36. Decisions: the process; capacities that facilitate decision-making
37. Desires: awareness and modification of desires
38. Aims: the purpose; setting aims
39. Intentions: determination, resistance, persistence, intensity
40. Gratification: denying, delaying and controlling gratification; moderation
41. Strategy: basic strategies: adaptation, confrontation, isolation, avoidance
42. Achieving: analysing situation, preparation, engagement, re-balancing, evaluation
43. Coping: stress and distress; factors that affect coping; forms of coping
44. Control: the purpose of control, types and factors that affect control
45. Motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic; negative and positive; affecting motivation
46. Energy: control, preservation, enhancement and transformation of energy
47. Organisation: innate and imposed order; change; time; planning
48. Performance: features that characterize competent performance
THE SOCIAL CATEGORY
49. Dependence: acquisitional and social dependence
50. Individuality: conformity, copying, self-consciousness, pleasing others
51. Influence: the reasons for accepting influence, types of influence, and the process
52. Belonging: purpose; types of groups; joining a group, group requirements
53. Moral sense: the consequences and development of moral sense
54. Protection: adverse behaviour and response, purpose of protection
55. Relating to others: respect and disrespect, acceptance and non-acceptance
56. Symmetricity: comparing, with others (superiority, inferiority, equality)
57. Appearance: congruence, flexibility, appeal
58. Awareness of others: attention, listening, observation, empathy, assessment
59. Communicating: preparation, flow, maintaining attention, the locus, sincerity
60. Behaviour: regulators of behaviour, congruent behaviour, forms of behaviour
61. Relationship dynamic: initiating relationships, conflicts, ending relationships
62. Intrinsic relationships: reciprocity, openness and trust, care
63. Instrumental relationships: self-benefit, mutual-benefit, others-benefit
64. Intimate relationships: passionate and compassionate intimate relationships.
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