BookDevon E. Hinton, Baland Jalal.
Summary: "Multiplex Therapy as adapted for Muslim groups seeks to fill this gap by providing an accessible CBT treatment manual tailored primarily (but not exclusively) for Muslims living in the Western world (i.e., North America, Europe as well as Australia), including immigrants and refugees, and other subgroups such as African Americans and second, third and fourth generation American and European Muslims. The treatment manual is unique in that it takes into account the religious, spiritual, social, and cultural dimensions of individuals with a Muslim religious and/or cultural background. That is, the therapy frames treatment elements-that include mindfulness, loving-kindness meditation, attentional shifting, emotion regulation, yoga-like stretching, psychoeducation, anger management, and addressing catastrophic cognitions, pathological worry, and sleep-related problems (including sleep paralysis and nightmares)-in terms of well-known Islamic terms and concepts"-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
Education about anxious-depressive distress and the treatment and introduction of emotion regulation techniques
Applied tretching and the toe-to-head muscle relaxation with visualization
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)
Education about anxious-depressive distress, modifying catastrophic cognitions, and teaching emotional distancing
Interoception exposure I : head rotation
Interoception exposure II : hyperventilation
Worry and distress
Anger and anger protocol, and education about breathing and its use for relaxation
Somatic complaints and sleep disturbance
Cultural syndromes and ethnophysiology related to distress.