Inclusive Clinical Practice: Supporting American Muslim Clients with Yasmine Binghalib

American Muslims face ongoing discrimination, Anti Muslim hate, and bias that often impact their mental health and overall wellbeing. Muslims are a diverse group that can include clients with cultural backgrounds from all over the world. However, they are often underserved and misunderstood in the mental health field which can lead to poor treatment outcomes. This training will help therapists become more culturally competent in working with Muslim clients and they will learn skills to increase the effectiveness of their work with this population. 

Therapists will  increase  their cultural competency in working with Muslim clients by:

- Learning a brief overview of Islam and its main components

- Understand cultural and religious norms that impact many Muslims

- Identify clinical considerations that can increase therapeutic alliance with Muslim clients