Yeshiva University will share a Federal grant with two other major universities to developmental health curricula for theological students, it was revealed here today. The other two institutions are Loyola University of Chicago, a Catholic school, and Harvard University.
Yeshiva University will receive $136,296 over the next five years for pilot and evaluation projects. The projects will be supervised by a committee of Yeshiva University psychiatrists, psychologists, cultural anthropologists and theologians. Rabbi Fred I. Hollander, director of the Institute for Pastoral Psychiatry of the New York Board of Rabbis, will direct the Yeshiva University project.
The grant was made by the National Institute of Mental Health. The National Academy of Religion and Mental Health, which helped develop the program, will act as consultant. The program aims to make clergymen familiar with different types of emotional disturbances so that they recognize their own limitations in dealing with such problems and so that they may recognize such difficulties and be able to refer disturbed people to sources of professional help.
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