The Imaam's Role In Psychology

Religion has been defined by Dew and colleagues (2008) as an “organized system of beliefs, rituals, practices, and community, oriented toward the sacred” (p. 382). Religion centres towards a ritualistic body with specifically defined and widely accepted beliefs, practices, and traditions.
Psychology: Can be defined as a mental process or the study of the mind. Religious beliefs are important in the lives of many patients, mental health professionals are often faced with clients that require spiritual interventions, and because the professionals don't want to impose their belief system on their patients, based on professional ethics, both the patients and the counsellors end up at a crossroad.
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Whereas an integrated work or collaborative work can yield better results than working separately, both parts would contribute from their area of specialization.
In some instances, some clerics take the form of counsellors without any prior training regarding that. But not every cleric can view a case from a psychological perspective. In other aspects, counsellors get caught up with clients whose cases are best observed by a spiritually trained person, in the instances like black magic and jinn possessions the client will require a cleric's intervention. (Ali et al, “The Imaam's role In meeting the counselling needs of Muslim communities in the US.” 2005.)
But the collaboration between the clerics and the psychological professionals is crucial as their coming together will help people facing mental health challenges to be completely covered from all angles. Clients with otherwise no access to mental health care can benefit from the integration of spiritual and psychological professionals despite the varying practices of
With the client's informed consent, a clergy can be brought into the therapy phase when the need for that arises.
(Barnett, “Integrating religion and spirituality into psychotherapy practice”, 17 June 2018, Retrieved from http://societyforpsychotherapy.org/integrating-spirituality-religion-psychotherapy-practice/)
Some patients feel more secure when they get the idea that they would get a collaborative take on their illness from the religious clergy-men who they are more close to, to the professional who would intervene in their duty of counselling.
A study carried out in America ( Jennifer Farrel et al. 2008) showed that most people are likely to approach their clergymen than to approach the psychiatrist or psychologists combined when they are undergoing emotional crises. The number of people going to clerics even when the people are not so religious is staggering.
Some of the clerics have no idea of when to make any referrals to the mental health professionals when they come across such cases that require such formal treatments. They mostly do not have in their training to refer to the professional psychologists or