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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Ecological Systems Theory: Addressing Muslim Mental Health Issues and Wellbeing

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Tanhan, Ahmet·2019·Journal of Positive School Psychology

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Muslims across the word underutilize mental health services for addressing their wellbeing and biopsychosocial, spiritual, and contextual issues. By 2030, the global Muslim population is expected to reach 2.2 billion people. This indicates that Muslim mental health is gaining importance and would require contextually (i.e., spiritually, culturally, empirically) more effective services. Practitioners used Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Ecological Systems Theory (EST) to promote wellbeing and address psychopathology for diverse groups. However, rigorous and comprehensive literature from 1986 to 2019 did not produce research addressing how ACT could be consumed to serve Muslims. Researchers in Muslim mental health have suggested benefitting from EST yet only few have mentioned using ACT. ACT is one of the most effective therapies based on randomized control trials to enhance wellbeing and address psychopathology. The main purposes of this paper are to (a) explain how ACT is one of the most appropriate counseling approaches to be utilized with Muslims because ACT and Islam have many commonalities and (b) propose ACT with EST perspective to enable a much more contextual perspective of ACT so that mental health professionals could promote wellbeing and address psychopathology at all ecological levels for all, starting with Muslims. With the arrival of third and fourth wave of counseling approaches, the use of positive psychology in research and practice has increased dramatically. ACT, Islam, and EST also highly stress a positive approach perspective thus considering of ACT and EST together might promise more effective research and practice in positive and abnormal psychology.

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Authors
Tanhan, A.
Affiliations
University of Rochester (US)
Corresponding author
Tanhan, Ahmet
Venue
Journal of Positive School Psychology
Publisher
ACT Akademi
Published
2019-09-23
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
197-219
ISSN
2717-7564 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2972377793
Cited by
93
References
104
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 1
FWCI
15.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Positive School Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Arizona State University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Rochester
  • İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi
  • Sakarya Üniversitesi
  • Adiyaman Üniversitesi
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Keywords
acceptance and commitment therapy, ecological systems theory, Muslim mental health, well-being, psychopathology, positive psychology, contextual therapy

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