ABSTRACT This study investigated the counselling needs (academic, social, emotional, personal career and financial needs) of seminarians in Nigeria Catholic Major Seminaries. The study adopted a descriptive (survey research) design. Simple random sampling procedure was used to obtain a sample of 547 respondents from three major seminaries across the country. The modified Student Needs Assessment Survey was used to gather data for this study. The modified version is titled Catholic Seminarian Needs Assessment Questionnaire. The study revealed that seminarians expressed need for counselling on their academic, career and financial life. It was equally revealed that most of the seminarians (59.9%) seek the assistance of the spiritual directors and other priests in the seminaries in place of the counsellor(s). Based on the findings, it was recommended that seminars, workshops and symposia should be organized periodically for the seminarians in the seminaries to address how to maximally manage time, and avoid distraction when studying in order to obtain the maximum academic proficiency and enhance their social and personal issues. More importantly, the seminary administration should employ the services of trained counsellor(s) and establish counselling units in the major seminaries to address the seminarians’ counselling needs in Nigeria since there is none at the moment.

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尼日利亚天主教主要神学院的神学院学员的咨询需求调查

摘要这项研究调查了尼日利亚天主教主要神学院的神学院学生的咨询需求（学术，社会，情感，个人职业和财务需求）。该研究采用了描述性（调查研究）设计。简单随机抽样程序用于从全国三个主要神学院中获得547名受访者的样本。修改后的学生需求评估调查用于收集本研究的数据。修改后的版本名为《天主教神学院的需求评估问卷》。该研究表明，神学院人员表示需要就其学术，职业和财务生活提供咨询。同样地，据透露，大多数神学院修士（59.9％）代替神职人员在神学院寻求精神指导和其他神父的帮助。根据调查结果，建议定期组织研讨会，讲习班和座谈会，供神学院的院士解决如何最大程度地管理时间，并避免在学习时分散注意力，从而获得最大的学术水平并提高他们的社会和个人问题。更重要的是，神学院的管理部门应聘请训练有素的顾问，并在主要神学院中建立咨询单位，以满足尼日利亚神学院的咨询需求，因为目前没有。