Prof Muhammad Al’Mahdi is one
of the world’ foremost child psychologists and
educators. He spent almost 14 years, as a full time
university student in the US including 3 PhD
programs in child, clinical and experimental
psychology.
Psychology has provided us with a useful
body of knowledge regarding personality formation, its
function and dysfunction. Psychotherapy has provided us
with the means to better understand psychological
problems and the tools to alleviate dysfunction and cope
with life in a more effective way. However, psychology
inherently contains certain limitations as it does not
and cannot fully address the reality of an expanded
consciousness or the spiritual connection in the journey
of life. Therefore, .....
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From the Islamic point of view spiritual approach to
psychotherapy is an aspect of behaviour modification
that is based on the relationship between man and his
Creator (Allah) which entails an operational paradigm in
which faith (Iman) in Allah is the focal point.
Iman is both a cognitive and ethical constructs that
gather all data and facts in the perspective which is
proper to and requisite for a true understanding of the
therapeutic processes. It is the consciousness of
Allah's existence and the conviction in service (Iman)
that serve as the beginning of therapy to remove mental
sickness (maradhun) in man. This is rightly
pointed out by Hanafi (1996) that, those who live in
consciousness of Him (Allah) are safe and protected
against maradhun as implicated by the verse below; .....
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Developmental psychology, otherwise called "child
psychology," is a branch of psychology that is
essentially concerned with the study of the overall
processes of human development from conception to old
age. The term "process of development" has been used to
refer to the stages, aspects, patterns, principles,
factors, and agents involved in human development.
In psychology, the term "development" has a wide range
of meaning. It means the overall qualitative and
quantitative changes that accompany human growth and
maturation. In this regard, these two terms (growth and
maturation) have also been subsumed under the general
meaning of development. The definition given by
Lefrancois reveals this wide sense of meaning:
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