Description
Book Synopsis Integrating the Islamic faith with modern psychotherapy is at the forefront of the spiritually integrated psychotherapy movement. To bring this work to wider attention and to promote its continuation, Dr. Carrie York Al-Karam has brought together the present volume of nine essays, each of which is written by a Muslim clinician who practices Islamically integrated psychotherapy (IIP)—a modern approach that unites the teachings, principles, and interventions of the faith with Western therapeutic approaches.
As delineated in the Introduction, IIP has emerged from a variety of domains including the psychology of religion and spirituality, multicultural psychology and counseling, transpersonal psychology, Muslim Mental Health, and Islamic Psychology. The individual chapters then describe a variety of ways IIP is practiced by Muslim clinicians in their service provision with Muslim clients.
The contributors discuss a wide range of topics, such as how Islam can be viewed as a system for psychological wellbeing, or a “science of the soul”; what marital counseling can look like from an Islamically-integrated perspective; Prophet Mohammed as a psycho-spiritual exemplar in a new approach called The HEART Method; the use of Quranic stories in family therapy; as well as using Islamic teachings when working with Muslim children and adolescents.
A description of the various approaches is supplemented with discussions of their theoretical underpinnings as well as research-based recommendations for advancing clinical application. What emerges is a vital resource for Muslim and non-Muslim clinicians alike as well as the lay Muslim reader wanting to know more about how the Islamic faith and psychotherapy are engaging with each other in a modern clinical context.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments / ix
Preface / xiii
Introduction / 3
Carrie York Al-Karam, PhD
Chapter 1: An Islamic Theoretical Orientation to Psychotherapy / 25
Abdallah Rothman, LPC
Chapter 2: Utilization of Islamic Principles in Marital Counseling / 57
Layla Asamarai, PsyD
Chapter 3: The HEART Method: Healthy Emotions Anchored in RasoolAllah’s Teachings: Cognitive Therapy Using Prophet Mohammed as a Psycho-Spiritual Exemplar / 76
Farah Lodi, MA, CCC
Chapter 4: Conducting Spiritually Integrated Family Therapy with Muslim Clients Utilizing a Culturally Responsive Paradigm / 103
Afshana Haque, PhD, LMFT-S
Chapter 5: Integrating Islamic Spirituality into Psychodynamic
Therapy with Muslim Patients / 127
Ibrahim Rüschoff, MD, and Paul M. Kaplick, BSc
Chapter 6: Family Therapy and the Use of Quranic Stories / 152
Rabia Malik, PhD
Chapter 7: Outlining a Case Illustration of Traditional Islamically
Integrated Psychotherapy / 175
Hooman Keshavarzi, LPC, and Fahad Khan, PsyD
Chapter 8
Marrying Islamic Principles with Western Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: Successes and Challenges / 208
Fyeqa Sheikh, PsyD
Chapter 9: Integrating Duaa Arafa and Other Shiite Teachings
into Psychotherapy / 229
Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, PhD
About the Contributors / 243
Index / 251
