Part i: A journey to personal success -- Determining the itinerary -- Setting goals -- Time management -- Obstacles on the journey -- Student life -- Coping with diversity and change -- Overcoming the challenges of conflict management, problem solving and decision making -- Enjoying the journey -- Your best travel companion -- you! -- Travel companions -- Interpersonal relationships that work -- Healty living -- Substance abuse: detour or dead end? -- Part ii First destination -- academic success -- Pit stop: Sharpening the thinking tools -- Discover your creative potential: creative living and creative learning -- Critical and analytical thinking -- Pit stop: check your classroom skills -- Note taking: write down the right things -- Effective listening skills -- Manage the workload: summarising and memorising -- Managing assignments and assessments -- Part iii: A toolbox for the helping professions -- Personal and interpersonal skills for health and related professionals -- Basic helping skills -- Trauma debriefing -- Coping with loss and berevement -- Part iv: Bon voyage -- Pause a moment ... check your travel documents -- Getting your passport and travel documents ready: building a portfoloio -- Job search and self-marketing strategies -- Making the job interview work for you -- Work ethics and professional behaviour in the workplace.