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Aug 4, 2023 · Islamic culture is believed to significantly impact how Arab Muslims understand and approach mental health disorders and treatments. Numerous Arabic texts on mental disorders and treatment consider Islamic teachings to be a reliable source of information for mental health interventions and therapies.
Muslims face multiple biopsychosocial, spiritual, and economic challenges, yet they severely underutilize mental health services. This reality is a community concern, one that is likely to affect the broader US culture and all others engaging with Muslims.
Jan 31, 2024 · The study’s aim was to establish a larger project to identify and amplify best practice across mainstream and non-mainstream mental health services in relation to improving provision for Muslim communities. Focus group data from key informants was analysed using grounded theory.
Using Islamic values and beliefs can be beneficial in treatment of mentally ill Muslims, through incorporation of Islamic beliefs that help in drug adherence and modification of different psychotherapeutic techniques to suit Muslim patients.
Jul 16, 2021 · Early Islamic scholars were actively engaged in the treatment of the mind and body. An Islamic focus on mental health can be traced back to the ninth century with notable figures such as Al-Kindi, who wrote books on cognitive approaches for depression; Al-Razi, who discussed “different types of melancholia, hypochondria, and effects of ...
- Nasreen Shah, Munir Shah
- 2021
Aug 27, 2023 · 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 [3].
Aug 5, 2015 · Rania Awaad, M.D., says that one of the projects at Stanford’s Muslims and Mental Health Research Lab, of which she is the director, is developing a religiously congruent psychotherapeutic framework for treating Muslims with mental health problems. Steve Fisch Photography. Open in viewer.
