The Effectiveness of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Intervention through Islamic Psychotherapy: The Preliminary Study

Abdullah, Che Haslina Binti; Abidin, Zarina Binti Zainan; Hissan, Wan Syakira Meor; Kechil, Rafizah; Razali, Wan Noorli; Zin, Mohamad Zaid Mohd

doi:10.5539/ass.v9n13p157

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“…In short, anxiety disorders are generally caused by mental or emotional instability. On the other hand, the Islamic view considered it a soul disease to some extent rather than a mental disorder as promoted by the psychiatrists from the West [15].…”

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Anxiety disorders and PTSD in Palestine: a literature review

2020

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Background The WHO reports that anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders worldwide. Most people who experience such events recover from it; however, people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) continue to be severely depressed and anxious for several months or even years following the event. Palestinians are particularly at a higher risk for developing anxiety disorders and PTSD due to the continuous exposure to political violence, prolonged displacement, and other limitation on professional, educational, financial opportunities, and mental health services. This paper aims to provide a systematic review of the literature and established studies concerning Anxiety disorders besides PTSD in Palestine. Methods PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar was used to search for materials for the critical analysis of empirical articles. The following aspects were taken into consideration: study type, sample, and key findings. Results In this review, we included about twenty-four studies from Palestine (West Bank and Gaza). Five studies relate to children, five relate to adolescents, three relate to women, three relate to physical diseases, and four relate to gender and age differences. Results show that anxiety disorders and PTSD are one of the most common mental disorders in Palestine. Anxiety and PTSD develop from a complex set of risk factors, including genetics, personality, and life events. They are mostly associated with low quality of life and disability. The results indicate that a significant proportion of Palestinian experiencing serious issues that deal with several challenges, distinct barriers including; inconsistent availability of medications, absence of multidisciplinary teamwork, insufficient specialists, fragmented mental health system, and occupation. Conclusion As primary prevention, the occupation has to have considered as the main source of anxiety and other mental health disorders in Palestine. Besides, there is a need to implement a mental health care system through multidisciplinary work and raising awareness regarding the prevalence of mental disorders.

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Anxiety disorders and PTSD in Palestine: a literature review

2020

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“…With the presentation of this Islamic model of the person or 'soul', there is now a need for studies that translate it into practical applications in the familiar language of psychology and psychotherapeutic interventions. Some attempts have been made to develop and evaluate Islamic psychotherapeutic interventions from Islamic versions of psychology (for example, Abdullab, 2007;Abdullah et al, 2013;Al-Karam, 2018;Keshavarzi & Haque, 2013;Naz & Khalily, 2015).…”

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Conceptualizing an Islamic psychotherapy: A grounded theory study.

Rothman¹,

Coyle²

2020

Spirituality in Clinical Practice

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Many religiously committed Muslims do not seek psychotherapeutic services because of assumptions that psychotherapists will not engage with their religious values in an informed and open way. In light of this, an approach to psychotherapy is needed that explicitly values Muslims' religious orientations and commitments and integrates these into clinical practice. The present study builds upon an Islamic model of the soul to develop a data-grounded, experiencebased model of Islamic psychotherapy. It does this by adopting a grounded theory approach to the analysis of interviews with 18 Muslim psychotherapists (12 men and six women) from six countries who believed that they integrate Islamic conceptions of psychology into their clinical practice. The ways in which participants understood and applied the four levels of the structure of the soul (the nafs or 'lower self'; the aql or 'intellect'; the qalb or 'heart'; and the ruh or 'spirit') in formulating an Islamic psychotherapy are examined. Their conceptualizations and reports of practice spoke of a holistic psychology with an emphasis on embodiment and of psychological difficulties occurring because of blockages or imbalances at the levels of the soul. These were seen as needing to be released to enable clients to align more closely with their pure and good nature that comes from and is connected to God. Participants expressed caution about over-stepping their knowledge and expertise and venturing into deep religious guidance. From these insights, an 'iceberg model' of Islamic psychotherapy is developed.

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“…However, from an Islamic view it is a soul disease to some extent rather than mental disorder as promoted by the psychiatrics from the West. [37] The following paragraphs will present some studies conducted in different Arab and surrounding countries regrading anxiety disorders and PTSD. By using stratified random sampling technique, 1552 adolescent school age boys and girls in Abha city, southwestern Saudi Arabia, were screened for mental health using Arabic validated version of SCL-90-R. Their ages ranged between 14-19 years.…”

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Anxiety Disorders and PTSD in Palestine: A systematic review

Marie¹,

SaadAdeen²,

Battat³

2020

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Background The WHO reports that anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders worldwide. Most people who experience such events recover from them, but people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) continue to be severely depressed and anxious for months or even years following the event. Palestinians are especially at a higher risk for developing anxiety disorders and PTSD due to their chronic exposure to political violence, prolonged displacement, and others as a limited professional, educational, financial opportunities, and mental health services. This paper aims to provide a systematic review of the literature and established studies concerning Anxiety disorders besides PTSD in Palestine.Methods PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar was used to search for materials, for the critical analysis of empirical articles, the following aspects were considered: study type, sample, and the key findings. Results Twenty-four studies from Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) were included in this review. Five studies related to children, five related to Adolescent, three related to women, three related to physical diseased and four related to gender and age differences.Results showed that anxiety disorders and PTSD were one of the most common mental disorders in Palestine. Anxiety and PTSD develop from a complex set of risk factors, including genetics, personality, and life events. They are highly associated with poor quality of life and disability. The results indicate that a significant proportion of Palestinian experiencing serious psychological distress especially anxiety and PTSD. Therefore, a mental health policy for Palestinians must deal with several challenges. Distinct barriers including inconsistent availability of medications, absence of multidisciplinary teamwork, insufficient specialists, fragmented mental health system, and occupation need to be addressed.Conclusion As a primary prevention, the occupation should be considered as a main source of the anxiety and other mental health disorders in Palestine. Besides, there is a need to implement mental health care system through the multidisciplinary work and raising awareness regarding prevalent of mental disorders.

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The Effectiveness of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Intervention through Islamic Psychotherapy: The Preliminary Study

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References 7 publications

Anxiety disorders and PTSD in Palestine: a literature review

Anxiety disorders and PTSD in Palestine: a literature review

Conceptualizing an Islamic psychotherapy: A grounded theory study.

Anxiety Disorders and PTSD in Palestine: A systematic review

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