Course: Understanding Mental Health in Muslim Communities

In this video Maulana Hasan draws on his extensive experience of working in the field of Muslim Mental Health to describe mental health stigma in Muslim communities in the North …

This video is presented by Dr Athanasios Hassoulas. Dr Hassoulas describes the symptoms and causes of depression. He then goes on to explain how this mental health problem is diagnosed …

In this video, Suhayl shares his lived experience of gambling addiction with Asma and reflects on the impact that religion had on his experience. Suhayl shared his knowledge and experience …

This week, you have you have developed your understanding of Muslim mental health and deepened your contextual understanding of Muslim experiences of mental health. You examined in detail two particular …

What is mental health stigma? The video in this step is presented by June Jones. June is the Interim Programme Manager at Time to Change Wales. Time to Change Wales …

In this video, Dr Ali explains how addiction is understood in Islam, using verses from the Quran and classical Islamic sources and the writing of the Muslim Sufi mystic Jalaluddin …

Dr Yusuf begins this video by acknowledging that understanding the differences between Islamic and Western frameworks, as we have done in the last two activities, is a challenging task. In …

In this video, Asma welcomes you to Week 2 and outlines what this week of learning will include. The aim of this week is to identify, in greater detail, some …

This video is presented by Dr Athanasios Hassoulas. Dr Hassoulas describes the symptoms and causes of addiction. He then goes on to explain how this mental health problem is diagnosed …

This course has been put together by a team of academics from the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University, and our lead educator, Shaykh …

In this video, Dr Roz Warden draws on academic literature from the fields of psychiatry and social work to consider some of the practical implications that spiritual beliefs can have …

In this video, Akhlak responds to a question that Asma puts to him about whether he feels comfortable and confident about signposting people living with dementia and their carers to …

In this video, Dr Yusuf explains what is meant by mental health and mental health problems on this course. Mental health includes a subjective sense of wellbeing, an absence of …

In this video, Suzanne Duval tells us, “people’s faith is people’s faith” and that practitioners should create spaces where Muslims feel comfortable to talk about their religiously informed spiritual beliefs, …

In this video, Akhlak describes the mental health support needs of those caring for their elderly relatives who live with dementia. Muslim carers need to be better-informed about dementia care. …