Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care

Hooman Keshavarzi, Fahad Khan, Bilal Ali, Rania Awaad (editors)

Paperback, 326 pages

9780367488864

Introducing Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy

This text outlines for the first time a structured articulation of an emerging Islamic orientation to psychotherapy, a framework presented and known as Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP).

TIIP is an integrative model of mental health care that is grounded in the core principles of Islam while drawing upon empirical truths in psychology. The book introduces the basic foundations of TIIP, then delves into the writings of early Islamic scholars to provide a richer understanding of the Islamic intellectual heritage as it pertains to human psychology and mental health. Beyond theory, the book provides readers with practical interventional skills illustrated with case studies as well as techniques drawn inherently from the Islamic tradition. A methodology of case formulation is provided that allows for effective treatment planning and translation into therapeutic application. Throughout its chapters, the book situates TIIP within an Islamic epistemological and ontological framework, providing a discussion of the nature and composition of the human psyche, its drives, health, pathology, mechanisms of psychological change, and principles of healing.

Mental health practitioners who treat Muslim patients, Muslim clinicians, students of the behavioral sciences and related disciplines, and anyone with an interest in spiritually oriented psychotherapies will greatly benefit from this illustrative and practical text.

Contents

Part I: Foundations of Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP)

1. Foundations of Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP)

Hooman Keshavarzi and Bilal Ali

2. The Role of the TIIP Therapist: Scope of Practice and Proposed Competencies

Fahad Khan, Hooman Keshavarzi, and Abdallah Rothman

Part II: Introducing the Islamic Intellectual Heritage

3. Islamic Psychology: A Portrait of its Historical Origins and Contributions

Rania Awaad, Danah Elsayed, Sara Ali, and Aneeqa Abid

4. Framing the Mind–Body Problem in Contemporary Neuroscientific and Sunni Islamic Theological Discourse

Faisal Qazi, Donald Fette, Syed S. Jafri, and Aasim Padela

Part III: Case Formulation and Assessment

5. Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of the Ontological Domains of the Psyche in TIIP

Fahad Khan

6. Dreams and Their Role in Islamically Integrated Mental Health Practice

Khalid Elzamzamy and Mohamed Omar Salem

Part IV: Treatment of the Domains of the Human Psyche

7. Emotionally Oriented Psychotherapy

Hooman Keshavarzi and Sara Keshavarzi

8. The Use of the Intellect (‘aql) as a Cognitive Restructuring Tool in an Islamic Psychotherapy

Asim Yusuf and Heba Elhaddad

9. Behavioral (Nafsānī) Psychotherapy: Character Development and Reformation

Hooman Keshavarzi and Rami Nsour

10. Spiritually (Rūḥānī) Focused Psychotherapy

Hooman Keshavarzi, Asim Yusuf, Paul M. Kaplick, Tameem Ahmadi and Amin Loucif