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Muslim Psychiatrists in Training Address Islamophobia in Clinical Experiences

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Islamophobia and Psychiatry

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Islamophobia has increased in the years following the events of September 11, 2001, and has impacted Muslims on a global scale, particularly in the Western world. The far-reaching implications of Islamophobia have affected Muslim clinicians with challenges in their patient-clinician relations. We attempt to highlight some of these challenges and the particularities in the psychiatric setting through clinical cases. We offer recommendations and advice to Muslim psychiatrists and their colleagues on how to approach and address these challenges.

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  1. McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Salam El-Majzoub

  2. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Mim Fatmi

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  3. Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research in Association with Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

    Ahmed Zakaria Hankir

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Rania Awaad

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El-Majzoub, S., Fatmi, M. (2019). Muslim Psychiatrists in Training Address Islamophobia in Clinical Experiences. In: Moffic, H., Peteet, J., Hankir, A., Awaad, R. (eds) Islamophobia and Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00512-2_17

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