The Reflection Project

Working With Muslims bulletin: news of initiatives, resources and research for mental health practitioners working with children and young people of Muslim heritage

Recent papers and research about British Muslims and mental health include:

• Muslim Youth: What’s the Issue? (2019) Muslim Youth Helpline
• Muslim Mental Health Matters (2021) The Lantern Initiative
• Hidden Survivors: Uncovering the Mental Health Struggles of Young British Muslims (2021), BCBN and University of East London
• Muslim Mental Health in Schools (2023) report and toolkit including model lesson plans, Muslim Mind Collaborative
• The racism you know is not the racism we experience: A perspective on Islamophobia and racism concerning the therapeutic frame: What Muslims bring and what they leave behind (2023) article by Stephen Abdullah Maynard, in Psychotherapy and Politics International 21(3 & 4):1-14. Available via Researchgate
• Faith in Mental Health report (2024), Woolf Institute

Muslim adoption: resources and research:

• Adoption and Muslims in England: Toolkit 1 for social workers and professionals in the adoption sector
• Adoption and Muslims in England: Toolkit 2 for the general Muslim community and wider population
• Identity, Intersectionality and Children in Care: the Case of ‘Looked-After’ Children in the UK (2022) Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Alison Halford and Mphatso Boti Phiri

Dr Rachel Abedi has contributed to and authored a number of articles and research pieces including:

• Abedi, R. (2021) “How do clinicians respond to the faith identity of young Muslims in a London Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinical context? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.” Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust/University of Essex
  
• Abedi, R. and Phorson, J. (2023) “Experiences of students from racially minoritized backgrounds undertaking pre-clinical courses: focus group study with students from pre-clinical courses in England” NHS England