The Islamic Origins of Modern Mental Wellness: Early Muslim Mental Health | Dr. Rania Awaad
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2023-02-19

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Dr. Rania Awaad discusses the critical importance of mental wellness and how we can incorporate Islam's traditional, holistic healing practices into our lives today.

Good mental health allows us to grow, deal with stress, and have happy relationships. 

MCC partners with regional and national organizations like Maristan to provide mental health and counseling services to the community that the MCC is honored to serve. 

This talk was hosted by the ICNYU on January 20, 2023. It was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California.

Dr. Rania Awaad, M.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she is the Director of the Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab as well Stanford University's Affiliate Chaplain. She also serves as the Associate Division Chief for Public Mental Health and Population Sciences as well as the Section Co-Chief of Diversity and Cultural Mental Health. In addition, she is a faculty member of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. She pursued her psychiatric residency training at Stanford where she also completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Prior to studying medicine, she pursued classical Islamic studies in Damascus, Syria and holds certifications (ijaza) in Qur’an, Islamic Law and other branches of the Islamic Sciences. Dr. Awaad has also previously served as the first female Professor of Islamic Law at Zaytuna College, a Muslim Liberal Arts College in Berkeley, CA. In addition, she serves as the Director of The Rahmah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating Muslim women and girls. Dr. Awaad been the recipient of several awards and grants for her work. She is a nationally recognized speaker, award-winning teacher, researcher and author in both the Islamic and medical sciences.

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