This course, offered by the Faculty of Whole Person Care & Development at the University of the Nations, proposes a holistic training that equips students to understand the human being in their entirety – body, soul, and spirit – and to walk alongside those seeking restoration after experiences marked by pain, compulsions, and inner brokenness.

In a fast-paced world filled with pressure, many develop defense mechanisms and addictive patterns—whether relational, behavioral, or substance-related. This school provides a deep, transparent, and faith-based approach to healing. Grounded in the completed work of Christ, the program helps students discover practical, God-given strategies for true freedom and a restored, purpose-filled life that acknowledges human suffering, embraces it and reinterprets it in the light of redemption. 

• Understand transformed living, addiction, and recovery from physical, emotional, and spiritual perspectives.
• Equip missionaries, pastors, and church leaders to recognize different types of addictions and apply effective treatment and relapse-prevention strategies.
• Apply recovery principles personally and learn how to support others in need.
• Gain insight into key recovery and trauma models for mature, practical, and informed counseling.
• Learn counseling tools and ethical approaches for effective intervention in family and community settings, especially related to addiction, trauma, and recovery.

• Understanding Addictions
• Group Counseling
• Family Systems (Dysfunctional Family and Restoration)
• Sexual Addiction
• Emotions in the Recovery Process
• Emotional Dependency and Co-dependency
• Trauma
• Dealing with the Aftermath of Abuse
• Recovery Models
• Relapse Prevention

And much more…

This 24-week school includes 12 weeks of classroom learning and 12 weeks of practical fieldwork.

The theoretical phase features qualified teachers, weekly processing groups for personal development, and academic assignments recorded with the University of the Nations.

The practical phase involves team outreach in schools, recovery centers, churches, health facilities, prisons, and other community settings, along with continued academic work and group participation. This phase also provides 12 additional University of the Nations credits.