Cognitive Therapy of Religious Depressed Patients: Common Concepts Between Christianity and Islam

Vasegh, Sasan

doi:10.1891/0889-8391.25.3.177

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“…This finding adds to previous literature recommending therapists to incorporate religion into treatment (e.g. Razali, Aminah and Khan, ; Sue and Sue, ; Vasegh, ) by suggesting this can even be a strength in therapy resulting from religious differences between non‐Muslim therapists and their Muslim clients. Lastly, therapists reported that ethnic/racial and religious differences facilitated the therapeutic relationship through their ability to join and connect with their clients by way of relating to the clients due to having prior exposure to cultural diversity, experience with Muslim clients, knowledge of clients’ culture or religion, or having similarities with clients’ culture or religion.…”

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confidence: 74%

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The experiences of non‐Muslim, Caucasian licensed marriage and family therapists working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients

Arshad

Falconier

2018

Journal of Family Therapy

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This qualitative study investigated the experiences of eight non‐Muslim, Caucasian licensed marriage and family therapists working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients. Semi‐structured interviews were used to examine the challenges and benefits that resulted from ethnic/racial and religious differences in therapy with clients of this population, and the strategies used or suggested by therapists in managing these differences. The data were analysed using thematic analysis and the themes that emerged were organized based on the areas of inquiry. Participants reported several challenges, including managing clients’ therapy expectations, engaging clients in therapy, understanding and accepting differences, and staying neutral. Participants described strategies they used and made recommendations on how to manage these challenges, including being aware of and acknowledging these differences and clarifying roles in therapy. Participants also identified benefits that derived from ethnic/racial and religious differences, such as finding it easier to make clients the experts and being able to provide an outsider perspective to clients. Practitioner points Non‐Muslim, Caucasian MFTs should be prepared to experience some challenges, but also some benefits, when working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients When working with this population, managing bias might be hard for therapists, and may require ongoing attention and work Recommendations provided by therapists in this study might be useful in managing the challenges that might arise from ethnic/racial and religious differences when working with the South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim population

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confidence: 74%

“…Among the strategies used to work with this group, one therapist recommended incorporating the Quran in therapy, which is consistent with what has been recommended in anecdotal literature (e.g. Razali, Aminah and Khan, ; Sue and Sue, ; Vasegh, ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 67%

The experiences of non‐Muslim, Caucasian licensed marriage and family therapists working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients

Arshad

Falconier

2018

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…The authors explain cognitive therapy in great detail before providing specifics from the Islamic tradition. Vasegh (2009) describes several Islamic concepts that can be incorporated into psychotherapy when working with Muslim clients; the same author later published an article on how to utilize religious thoughts and beliefs from Christianity and Islam into cognitive therapy to treat depressed patients (Vasegh, 2011). The concepts in the later work may be perplexing for the reader to adapt to Muslim clients, as the author appears to reference Christian texts more frequently than Islamic ones.…”

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confidence: 99%

20201218

Haque¹,

Khan²,

Keshavarzi³

et al. 2016

Journal of Muslim Mental Health

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Researchers from around the world have conducted numerous studies in the last few decades exploring the unique cultural and religious nuances of the application of clinical psychology to Muslim clients as a response to the traditional Eurocentric narratives of psychology. This paper is a review of the last 10 years of research within this domain. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify research topical trends in the literature related to the subject. The following five themes emerged: 1) Unification of western psychological models with Islamic beliefs and practices; 2) Research on historical accounts of Islamic Psychology and its rebirth 76 Amber Haque, Fahad Khan, Hooman Keshavarzi, and Abdallah Rothman in the modern era; 3) Development of theoretical models and frameworks within Islamic Psychology; 4) Development of interventions and techniques within Islamic psychology; and 5) Development of assessment tools and scales normed for use with Muslims. Recommendations are also provided to help direct future research efforts to expand underdeveloped areas in this field.

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“…Religions have historically played an important role in constructing gender and sexual identities along reproductive lines and within a binary system whereby, according to western belief, only two genders, corresponding to two biological sexes, exist (Cashore and Tuason, 2009). For those who do not ‘fit’, this can result in religious guilt creating feelings of worthlessness, combined with anger towards God, which in turn aggravates feelings of guilt (Vasegh, 2011).…”

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Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: A single case study

Curtis¹,

Morris

2015

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Curtis, Morag and Morris, Karen (2015) Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: a single case study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78 (11). pp. 706-712.Downloaded from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2032/ Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form• a hyperlink/URL to the original Insight record of that item is included in any citations of the work • the content is not changed in any way• all files required for usage of the item are kept together with the main item file. You may not• sell any part of an item• refer to any part of an item without citation • amend any item or contextualise it in a way that will impugn the creator's reputation• remove or alter the copyright statement on an item.The full policy can be found here. Alternatively contact the University of Cumbria Repository Editor by emailing insight@cumbria.ac.uk. Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: A single case study Morag Curtis and Karen Morris AbstractIntroduction: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of crossdressing, to raise awareness of cross-dressing and investigate any possible implications for occupational therapy.

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Cognitive Therapy of Religious Depressed Patients: Common Concepts Between Christianity and Islam

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

The experiences of non‐Muslim, Caucasian licensed marriage and family therapists working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients

The experiences of non‐Muslim, Caucasian licensed marriage and family therapists working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients

20201218

Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: A single case study

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