The Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC) has permitted Nigeria’s first Psycho-Religious Institute.
Operated by the Lux Terra Management Basis, the institute will run in affiliation with Veritas College Abuja, providing two postgraduate programmes.
Talking at a press convention in Abuja on Wednesday, the Govt Director of the Basis, Rev. Fr. George Ehusani, introduced that the regulatory physique, the Nationwide Universities Fee, permitted and accredited two postgraduate programmes: a Postgraduate Diploma in Psycho-Religious Trauma Therapeutic and a Grasp’s Diploma in Psycho-Religious Remedy.
Father Ehusani defined that the Kenyan campus of the Institute, which took off in 2013 and is affiliated with the Catholic College of Jap Africa, Nairobi, has over the past decade produced 9 units of M.A. graduates in Psycho-Religious Remedy from 20 African nations in addition to South America, Asia, and Europe.
He listed the nations to incorporate Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Rwanda, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Italy, India, Colombia, Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, amongst others.
The Govt Director introduced that the primary set of 13 candidates for the two-year Grasp of Arts diploma in Psycho-Religious Remedy, in addition to the primary set of 30 candidates for the one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Psycho-Religious Trauma Therapeutic, have all resumed their research on the Institute’s short-term campus.
“I need to not neglect to say that between 2016 and now, our Institute has additionally been working a week-long certificates course in Fundamental Psycho-Religious Trauma Therapeutic Expertise for medical and para-medical employees, humanitarian employees, psychologists and counsellors, pastors and imams, academics and social employees, emergency reduction employees, functionaries of drug rehabilitation centres, correctional centres, and varied volunteers, who, by the character of their work, work together day by day with depressed, distressed, and traumatized individuals, and others in tough emotional and psychological conditions.
“The postgraduate diploma is designed for the above classes of individuals from numerous skilled backgrounds, however the mode of supply of the course is hybrid, which means that a lot of the course will probably be on-line (or digital), with not more than two or three weeks of residency per semester.
“The Grasp’s Diploma programme, then again, is a two-year (or four-semester) totally residential programme, involving not solely tutorial {and professional} coaching but additionally components geared toward intense private psycho-spiritual transformation, corresponding to one-on-one counselling, non secular route, and progress remedy teams.
“We imagine that on the finish of their programme of research, our candidates will probably be sufficiently outfitted with data, expertise, and instruments to facilitate the therapeutic and rehabilitation of troubled minds and spirits, utilizing a completely built-in psycho-spiritual method.
“The institution of those coaching programmes, with our uniquely built-in multidisciplinary method, has, in our view, turn into an pressing crucial, contemplating that regardless of the wave of secularism sweeping internationally immediately, most African individuals stay deeply spiritual, such that one can’t efficiently tackle their psycho-emotional challenges with out taking into cognizance their spiritual, non secular, and cultural realities.”
On his half, the Vice-Chancellor of Veritas College Abuja, Rev. Fr. Prof. Hyacinth Ichoku, applauded the Nationwide Universities Fee for accrediting the programme.
Describing the programme as a novel, he stated the Institute has met worldwide requirements. “We’re proud to be affiliated with the Institute,” Prof. Ichoku stated.
