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Pious Malliar Bellian, MSW (he/him/his)

Visiting Instructor
NCSSS, Catholic University of America
Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States

Pious Malliar Bellian is a Visiting Instructor at the National Catholic School of Social Service School Catholic University of America (CUA). He is a PhD candidate at Indiana University, Indianapolis. His research interests include spirituality and social work, spiritual healing, and holistic wellness. Born and raised in India, he holds a master’s degree in social work from IGNOU (India) and a Bachelor of Theology and Philosophy from St. Peter's Pontifical Institute. He is an ordained minister in the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the assistant director and, later, the executive director of an NGO in India. As a ‘community social worker,’ he lived and worked amongst the fisherfolk families, numbering over forty thousand. He is the founder director of two homes: an orphanage for young girls called Anjanam and a shelter home for women domestic violence victims called QSSS Shelter Home in India. For his dissertation, he is doing a fundamental study on the spiritual healing assessment needs of people who have had post-traumatic stress disorder, spiritual injuries, and other traumatic life events. He is developing and validating a new scale. His professional background is in Macro Social Work, and he has worked with various marginalized groups, including fisherfolk, orphaned children, victims of domestic violence, people with paraplegia, the bedridden and terminally ill in India, and new immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.

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