Islamic Culture : The American Psychological Association 's Ethics Code

For that to happen, the counselor must learn to use the skills and knowledge necessary to help the client. This includes learning about the client's culture and how it differentiate from the culture of the counselor and from the White American culture. From a Christian perspective, it is essential that a counselor can reach the client in a way that Jesus would, meeting the client where they are, not casting judgment or condemnation because their faith and belief is different than that of the counselor. Perhaps by caring for that patient and treating them with care, empathy and understanding, that client will be able to see Christ through the counselor, that is why, as a Christian counselor, those reaching to the American-Muslim's clients need to know the cultural differences in order to help

The therapist’s interviewing skills at this point are still novice and developing. Although the therapist may be strong with his ability to stay connected with the client and reflect feelings, he still would need to improve his language with his questions to be more concise and clear. For the treatment plan, the therapist lacks real world experience and also has limited understanding with insurance companies and how they dictate the amount of sessions a client could schedule. Furthermore, the therapist lacks experience with utilizing his preferred theory and how to adapt it to potential clients. Although the theory suites will with the therapist’s style and understanding of therapy, there are still further understanding and application that is needed. Concerning cultural formulation, the therapist feels that is his current greatest strength. The therapist has spent substantial time with individual of different culture, socioeconomic and sexual orientation backgrounds. Additionally, the therapist is constantly looking to become more educated and immured with different aspects of his own minority culture along with the cultures of others in the United States. This is reflected in the therapist cultural formulations and sessions with his clients. Also, with this understand of individual difference and hardships, the therapist can show genuine empathy for his clients. The therapist has the understanding that although the client may have different religious

Because of the role of fate in the teachings of Islam, Arab Americans are thought to be survival-oriented rather than insight-oriented. Some authors suggest that therapies focused on insight tend to be ineffective and counterproductive with this population and can be highly anxiety provoking because of the conflicts between individual versus collective forces (Al-Abdul-Jabbar & Al-Issa, 2000). Arab Americans should be given the opportunity to meet with a same-sex counselor (Eric,

In my personal opinion and experience, I find that the field of psychology is lacking in diverse cultural competencies as much as the society is diverse in its population. I believe that as with using any theoretical model, the therapists’ cultural knowledge needs to include understanding of the many cultural considerations influencing the effectiveness of treatment when dealing with clients from diverse backgrounds. When servicing the individuals in the family, care and attention needs to be directed towards family and community norms and values around help seeking, secrecy and confidentiality, family roles, child rearing and spiritual practices.

Islam, a religion of people submitting to one God, seeking peace and a way of life without sin, is always misunderstood throughout the world. What some consider act of bigotry, others believe it to be the lack of education and wrong portrayal of events in media; however, one cannot not justify the so little knowledge that America and Americans have about Islam and Muslims. Historically there are have been myths, many attacks on Islam and much confusion between Islam as a religion and Middle Easter culture that is always associated with it. This paper is meant to dispel, or rather educate about the big issues that plague people’s minds with false ideas and this will only be touching the surface.

As America is rich in multi cultural immigrants’ diversities in culture, beliefs, faiths and religion are not uncommon among American population. Health care profession is one of the major areas that are affected with these diversities of culture, beliefs, faiths and religion. While there are many advantages of rich and diverse heritage, it’s challenging for health care professionals to deal with those from various faith/ spiritual background, especially for minority religious groups. However, in order to provide best available care health care professionals

Muslim immigrants have arrived to the United States of America from every nuke and corner of the sphere. The population is diverse in their own ways but each one of them bears similar reasons: Some desire to escape an old way of life, others to find a new one. Some wanted to escape violence, others the fetters of penury, or simple lack of opportunity. They have arrived with fervent hope, and often nothing more. The initial response received by them was largely varied. These new Americans found a vast new land hungry for their labor. But some, unfamiliar with these newcomers’ customs and religions, treated the new Americans as outsiders and believed they could never be real Americans. And with the events like the Gulf War and the World Trade Center bombing outpoured anti-Islamic sentiments in the 1990s. These sentiments intensified with the heinous and abominable attacks of September 11th. Muslims were being labeled as “extremists”, “jihadists”, “fanatics”, “fundamentalists” etc. They were being feared, discriminated and even harassed.

The main idea of this article is to bring insight to the reader about how islam is being remolded by the youth Islamic community within America. To illustrate this revolution the author uses personal accounts from the Muslims she interviewed. One of the main elements portrayed in this article was the idea of Muslim assimilation in the modern western world. The millennials within the Muslim American community often still adhere to the basic tenants and values of their religion however they often follow the religion more loosely in order to blend the two diverse cultures. Another main point this article focused on was religious temperance to allow for a more progressive and flexible practice of the faith. Lastly this article focused on the increased acceptance and reduced judgement from family members and those who are

This study focuses on the culture of Arab Muslim living in the United States. Arab Muslim population is one of the dramatically increasing minorities in the United States. In addition to other factors, religion and cultural background influence individuals' beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes toward health and illness. However, in Muslim community health care is viewed uniquely and treated same way across the board (Najeh M Ahmad, 2004).

There is not much information on when Muslims first arrived in America, but there has been evidence that some of the slaves were Muslim, but didn’t have the ability to practice their religion freely, they also tried to accommodate their faith with Christianity, but others were converted. It was about twenty percent of the slaves in the US were Muslim. One of the first known Muslims in the United States, was a slave from Morocco, named Estevanico, who was shipwrecked with Spanish Explorers near the where the city Galveston, Texas is. After that there weren’t many Muslims coming into the United States until the twentieth century. This is shown by the evidence that one of the first mosques was built in North Dakota in 1929, and while the mosque was demolished a Muslim cemetery still stands near the spot of that mosque. Islam started in the 7th century with a prophet named Muhammad. It is an Abrahamic religion, like Judaism and Christianity, but Muslims believe that Islam is a step further than the other two religions.

For instance, generalizing the radical thought of some Arab people in the Middle East to be identified with the Arab Americans cannot help the psychotherapist to be unbiased treating the client. Hence, there is a need for a multicultural mental health theory, which focuses on stepping out your own beliefs, stereotypes, assumptions, and attitudes. It highly considers how the client will deal with being treated on a biased background base. However, a successful psychotherapist studies the detailed information about the cultural, religious and sociopolitical practices of Arab Americans and offers specific solutions to offering effective culturally related mental health services to Arab American clients in America.

The time of the first Muslims’ arrival to present-day U.S is debatable. However, many historians claim that the earliest Muslims came from the Senegambian region of Africa in the 1300s, which is present day Gambia and Senegal. It is believed they were Moors, expelled from Spain, who made their way to the Caribbean

Muslim culture generally reflects the traditions and customs of Muslims that they adopt for a perfect and respectable life in the society according to the lessons of Quran. Muslim culture is a giant combination of diverse cultures, That’s because Muslims live in various countries all over the world. Most of the practices are common faiths and guidance for all Muslims no matter what country or even content they reside in.. These basic faiths and belives are based on the teachings of Islam. The Muslim culture is a subject of debate for many people who lives in different parts of the world and belong to diverse communities. Muslim culture represents the unification of brotherhood where all Muslims are bound to

There are certain Rules Which Create Prohibition, Approvals or Disapprovals in Islam. We Will see in the following discussion that how these rules are Categorized. As Muslim Jurits have use the word Hukum-ul-Shari for these rules we will also see that how the jurists have defined it. These rules have been given in form of Wajib Makrooh Mustahaab Haram Mandub and etc. We Will try to differentiate them from each other by the views of Classical Jurists. These rules are there to control the life style of the human beings specially Muslims. And these commands have been given through a communication and this communication between Allah and the Mankind has been defined by Immam Shafi.

If Islam was sent to all mankind, then logically, it can only be inferred that it does not deem one culture superior to another. That being said, the spread of Islam was the spread of religion, not culture. Islam is often conflated with Arab culture, and vice versa. However, this perception of Islam as a whole is entirely untrue, as Islam is not a religion specifically for the Arabs, but for all humanity. Arabic might be the language of Islam, but there is no culture for Islam. But because of this misconception, most people assume something is Islamic simply because it looks Arabic. Although most have a mental image of what we deem “Islamic” architecture to be, there is in fact no style of Islamic architecture, as Islam did not force any culture onto the people it reached.