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Aug 5, 2015 · When Rania Awaad, M.D., traveled to Damascus to participate in an Islamic sciences summer program when she was 14, little did she know she was embarking on a lifelong journey that would one day lead her to respond to the mental health needs of Muslim women. Rania Awaad, M.D., says that one of the projects at Stanford’s Muslims and Mental ...
The Social Justice and Muslim Mental Health Line addresses the psychological impact of discrimination and Islamophobia on the well-being of Muslims. Muslim Americans face various types of discrimination with regard to the unique aspects of their identity, particularly as it intersects with race, ethnicity, gender, and other factors that further marginalize them within society.
We drew the framework based on TPB/TRA, SEM, and the review of Muslim mental health literature (the concept map). The concept map and the framework provide the most important constructs about challenges Muslim’s face when attempting to utilize mental health services. Future researchers can use the concept map and the framework to conduct ...
Oct 15, 2020 · Whilst “folk models” of mental illness do exist in lay discourse amongst contemporary Muslim communities, which echo to some extant European frameworks of healing and illness in the Middle Ages, the contemporary movement of Islamic psychology being developed by Muslim mental health scholars may be seen as a reclamation of the Islamic teachings and frameworks in mental health during the ...
- Karim Mitha, Karim Mitha, Karim Mitha
- 2020
Introduction Many barriers prevent Muslims’ accessing mental health services, the aim of this systematic review is to gain an understanding regarding these barriers and consider how they vary across different Muslim communities resident in different countries. Methods and analysis Systematic review of PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Ovid MEDLINE, Embase and Index Islamicus databases for ...
Aug 27, 2023 · The revival of early traditions on psychological healing has led to the development of the field of “Islamic psychology.” Islamic psychology serves to introduce the theories and practices of early Muslim scholars as an approach to psychotherapy within an Islamic context, providing mental health practitioners a framework for addressing the unique mental health needs of Muslim communities [].
Rania Awaad, M.D. Rania Awaad, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she is the Director of the Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab and its community nonprofit Maristan.org, Associate Chief of the Division of Public Mental Health and Population Sciences, and Co-Chief of the Diversity and Cultural Mental Health Section.
