Fall semester topics
- Week 36. Benefits of volunteer work
- Week 37. Living with learning disabilities
- Week 38. Personality disorders
- Week 39. Setting up healthy boundaries
- Week 40. Learning to improve concentration
- Week 41. Suicide prevention – learning to help
- Week 42. Phobias – dealing with fears
- Week 43. Sleep disorders
- Week 44. Sexuality – the biochemistry
- Week 45. Addictive relationships
- Week 46. UNESCO day of tolerance
- Week 47. Improving self-confidence
- Week 48. Helping friends or others in distress
- Week 49. World AIDS day – living with illness
- Week 50. Value based decision making
- Week 51. Being assertive in a diverse world
- Week 52. Spirituality – spiritual growth
- Week 1. Dynamics of intro- & extraverts
- Week 2. Orientation – a career that fits!
- Week 3. Living in a foreign country
- Week 4. Overcoming test anxiety
- Week 5. Understanding dysfunction in a family
- Week 6. Smoking – giving up methods
- Week 7. Valentine’s day – commitment
- Week 8. Communication – focusing on skills
- Week 9. Domestic violence
- Week 10. Work-life balance – expectations
- Week 11. Loneliness and feeling alone
- Week 12. Understanding of joy and happiness
- Week 13. Racial discrimination
- Week 14. PTSD
- Week 15. World health day
- Week 16. Panic disorders
- Week 17. Academic honesty – authenticity
- Week 18. Death and dying
- Week 19. Job interviews – good impression
- Week 20. Characteristic of sound families
- Week 21. Celebrating cultural diversity
- Week 22. Growing up in a single parent home
- Week 23. Act of love (self and others)
- Week 24. Focusing on personality tests
- Week 25. Childhood traumas
- Week 26. Relating to the elderly
- Week 27. Grief – dealing with loss
- Week 28. Drug and substance abuse
- Week 29. Dealing with depression
- Week 30. Procrastination
- Week 31. Recovering from shame and guilt
- Week 32. Perfectionism
- Week 33. First generation university students
- Week 34. Compulsive obsessive behaviors
- Week 35. Body image – eating disorders
- Week 36. School bullying – mobbing concerns
- Week 37. Romantic relationships & difficulties
Spring semester topics
Romantic relationships – difficulties
Romance is one of the most challenging and also fulfilling endeavors in the same time. Because relationships are filled with “us” (our own psychological struggles) it is inevitable it will lead to conflicts. If so we also get a chance to rearrange (hopefully process) our own inner issues (stuff) and arrive to a more functional coexistence with oneself in the presence of a companion. There are many aspects one can assess if he/she is ready for a romantic relationship, or if the current relationship is the right one.
Recommended books
Gary Chapman: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts. 2015.
John Bradshaw: Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth. 1994.
Viktor E. Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning. 2006.
Alice Miller: The Drama of the Gifted Child – The search for the true self. 1997
M.P. Nichols: the Lost Art of Listening – How learning to listen can improve relationships. 1995.
Gary Chapman: A Teen’s Guide to the 5 Love Languages: How to Understand Yourself and Improve All Your Relationships. 2016.
Additional web resources