Family Therapy with Muslims

There are approximately 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.  Millions of Muslims live in North America and Europe; more than 8 million in the U.S. and about one million in Canada. In addition, Muslims in North America have the third-highest divorce rate at 33 percent. Yet, there is a scarcity of written and researched material by Muslim scholars and scientists on the family, as viewed from historical, socio-cultural, psychological, behavioral and political perspectives. Family Therapy with Muslims is a much needed reference that presents many family therapy models in the context of working specifically with the Muslim population. This book offers practical clinical solutions to working with this cultural and religious minority.

Manijeh Daneshpour is professor and chair of the department of Counseling and Community Psychology at St. Cloud state University. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Development and a Master of Science degree in family ecology from University of Utah and a PhD in marriage and family therapy from University of Minnesota. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and an AAMFT Approved supervisor. She teaches marriage and family therapy graduate courses and provides family therapy for individuals and families in her private practice in Maple Grove. Dr. Daneshpour has served as the president of Minnesota Board of Marriage and Family Therapy and as the chair of the election committee for the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapists. She is from Iran and identifies herself as a Muslim feminist. Her research interests, presentations and publications are in the areas of multicultural family therapy, gender relations, social justice, postmodernism and third wave feminism.

---Introduction.-I. Muslims Defined.-Colonial/Postcolonial perspective.-Gender/Power Dynamics.-Attachment and Family Interactions.-Self-Identity.-II.Structural Family Therapy.-Strategic Family Therapy.-Bowenian Family Therapy.-Narrative Family Therapy.-Feminist Family Therapy.-Experiential Family Therapy.-Contextual Family Therapy.-Postmodern Family Therapy.-III. Conclusion