The Counselling Studies Department at NIST offers degrees in Master of Divinity, Master of Arts, and Higher Diploma.

Higher Diploma

In the Higher Diploma Counselling Studies concentration, the student is required to take the following counselling courses in addition to other core courses in Bible and Theology:

CS 401 Counselling Foundations and Theories

CS 402 Basic Counselling Techniques

CS 403 Human Psychology

CS 404 Substance Abuse

CS 405 Resolving Personal Conflicts

CS 406  Basic Crisis Counselling

CS 470  Vocational Internship

CS 490  Research Project

Master of Arts Degree in Counselling Studies:

The Counselling Studies Department in both the Master of Divinity and Master of Arts programmes is designed to equip students to be competent counselors from a biblical perspective within the current African context.  From biblical and theological foundations, students learn biblical counselling philosophy, look at the distinctive of biblical counselling in relation to other counselling approaches and evaluate the usefulness and pitfalls of current counselling theories and practices. Students learn counselling approaches to various issues that affect society: child and adolescent counselling, marital and family counselling, and crisis counselling (including managing clients affected by suicide, HIV/AIDS, and those affected by civil conflict and strife).  The intention is to produce counselors for Africa that are biblically sound, equipped with modern and classical counselling theories, culturally sensitive, and able to practically integrate theology and counselling within their communities.

The Master of Arts program in Counselling Studies is a 62 credit two year program. In addition to Biblical and Theological courses, Thesis, and a Vocational Internship, Counselling students will be required to take the following courses:

                CS 501   Counselling Foundations

                CS 502   Counselling Skills

                CS 503   Counselling Theories

                CS 504   Counselling Issues in Africa

                CS 505   Personality Development Theories

                CS 506   Crisis and Conflict Resolution

                CS 507   Abnormal Psychology

                CS 508   Child and Adolescent Counselling

                PS 500   Marriage and Family

Other courses that may be offered include:

                Ethics and Professional Issues

                Assessment Procedures and Techniques

                Group Counselling

                Addictive Behaviors

                HIV/AIDS Counselling