Main description:

With an increasing number of Muslims living in the West, and studies suggesting that mental illness may be more prevalent and chronic amongst Muslim cultural groups, there is a pressing need for appropriate treatment options. This book provides mental health professionals with a practical guide to delivering culturally adapted therapy to Muslim immigrants, refugees, and those with a Muslim religious or cultural background. It takes into account the religious, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions of individuals, framing elements such as mindfulness, emotion regulation and sleep problems within well-known Islamic terms and concepts. The book covers issues such as prominent somatic symptoms, multiple comorbidities, low education, ongoing life difficulties and mental health stigma. As Multiplex Therapy is transdiagnostic, targeting anxiety and mood disorders, the treatment is applicable to a large proportion of patients. Each chapter guides the reader through therapy sessions, giving clinicians an invaluable everyday manual for delivering treatment.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Session 1: Education about Anxious-Depressive Distress and the Treatment and Introduction of Emotion Regulation Techniques; 2. Session 2: Applied Stretching and the Toe-to-Head Muscle Relaxation with Visualization; 3. Session 3: Review of Toe-to-Head Muscle Relaxation with Visualization and the Introduction of the Dysphoria (Anxiety/Depression) Protocol, Education about Anxious-Depressive Distress and Teaching the Bad Memory Protocol (Emotion Regulation Toolbox); 4. Session 4: Education about Anxious-Depressive Distress, Modifying Catastrophic Cognitions, and Teaching Emotional Distancing; 5. Session 5: Interoceptive Exposure I: Head Rotation; 6. Session 6: Interoceptive Exposure II: Hyperventilation; 7. Session 7: Worry and Distress; 8. Session 8: Anger and Anger Protocol, and Education about Breathing and Its Use for Relaxation; 9. Session 9: Somatic Complaints and Sleep Disturbance; 10. Session 10: Cultural Syndromes and Ethnophysiology Related to Distress; Appendix A: Stretching Handout; Appendix B: Toe-to-Head Relaxation with Visualization; Appendix C: Dysphoria (Anxiety/Depression) Protocol; Appendix D: Bad Memory Protocol (Emotion Regulation Toolbox); Appendix E: Anger Protocol; Index.