Psychologue 2021: Issue Two
- Posted by William Bergquist
- On October 8, 2021
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Members of the New Global PSP Community engage individually and collaborative in research and scholarship0–often through The Edge of Knowledge, PSP’s research and development center. Findings from their work are published in PSP’s Library of Professional Psychology. More extensive writing is to be found in one of the three publishing centers of PSP’s Ash Point Publishing: The Professional Psychology Press, Pacific Soundings Press and Atlantic Soundings Press.
The Professional School of Psychology offers unique programs that emulate the legendary salons convened in intellectual capitals of the world. People gathered in salons to share ideas, perspectives and practices. The PSP Global Community offers two different kinds of Salons. Studios bring community members together to share perspectives on specific movies, documentaries and other art-forms. Laboratories are convened for testing out specific hypotheses, cutting-edge concepts, and potential psychological practices. Both the Studios and Laboratories are affiliated with PSP’s Edge of Knowledge Research Center, and produce essays, video documents, and books published in PSP’s library and presses.
Mature and accomplished life-long learners wishing to become more competent when making decisions and taking actions as psychologists in complex, unpredictable and turbulent environments. In recognition of this fundamental challenge, PSP offers unique digital and in-person programs at an affordable price. These programs are founded on four models of adult education—with emphasis placed on the third (transformational) and fourth models (appreciative).
For more than 40 years, The Professional School of Psychology (PSP) created a remarkable global community made up of lifelong learners from many professions who are committed to collaborative learning with one another. Specifically, PSP is a distinctive institution that emphasizes high quality yet affordable education and training for mature, accomplished adults and experienced human service professionals from all regions of the world.
Though PSP is no longer offering degree programs, it is hosting many workshops and certification programs–often through its unique three modes of educational delivery, PSP continues to effectively serve life-long learners from many professions and many regions of the world who face the challenges and opportunities inherent in the application of psychological knowledge to the complex, unpredictable and turbulent 21st Century world in which they live and work.
Through the Edge of Knowledge center, members of the PSP community are exploring the application of “cutting edge” theory and research in several domains including clinical, health and organizational psychology.
PSP research is embedded in recognition that valuable knowledge reside near some edge. Knowledge exists in sectors where we know that we don’t know and where we discover that we know more than we were initially aware.
At PSP and the Edge of Knowledge center we also venture into the frontier sector where we are vaguely aware of a lack of knowledge and need to know.
Edge of Knowledge projects lead to production of social media documents and publications in the Library of Professional Psychology—and creation of cutting edge workshops and certification programs.
Developmental: Models of Generativity, Enduring Relationships
Appreciative: Psychology of Hope, Freedom
Health: 70 Sleep Pathways, Tiers of Health Psychology
The Professions: Development of Coaches, Professionals Quad
Public Policy: Assumptive Worlds of Psychopathy, Human Embedded Technologies