Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness

This qualitative research explored Malaysian Muslim teachers’ perspectives of mental illness and well-being with an aim to understand how they coped with their own condition of illness and the relationship between spiritual practices and mental health. Six public school teachers served as intervi...

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Main Author:	Abd Karim, Aishah Hanim
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	LB1050.9 Educational psychology
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/79074/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/79074/1/IJES%202018%20Coping%20Strageies%20AHAK.pdf

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spelling	iium-790742020-02-24T07:25:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/79074/ Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness Abd Karim, Aishah Hanim LB1050.9 Educational psychology This qualitative research explored Malaysian Muslim teachers’ perspectives of mental illness and well-being with an aim to understand how they coped with their own condition of illness and the relationship between spiritual practices and mental health. Six public school teachers served as interview participants, all of whom had experienced a mental breakdown at some point in their career. Using a semi-structured protocol, the teachers were interviewed individually at different times and settings. An inductive content analysis was used to interpret the data for all participants. The findings showed four themes, namely medical treatment, religion, family and societal support, and positivity to be the dominant factors of coping. Four subthemes emerged from religious coping, i.e., prayers, Qur’an reading, protective factor, and diseases of the heart. These subthemes suggested an association between spiritual practices and mental well-being. Apart from seeking professional help and getting appropriate medical treatment, the study also revealed the importance of engaging in various spiritual practices such as performing the five daily prayers, zikr, salawat shifa', and reading the Qur'an, strategies that produced the feelings of peace and calmness in the participants which were instrumental in helping them cope with their illness and become productive teachers. 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79074/1/IJES%202018%20Coping%20Strageies%20AHAK.pdf Abd Karim, Aishah Hanim (2018) Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness. IIUM JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 6 (2). pp. 49-71. ISSN 2289-8085
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description	This qualitative research explored Malaysian Muslim teachers’ perspectives of mental illness and well-being with an aim to understand how they coped with their own condition of illness and the relationship between spiritual practices and mental health. Six public school teachers served as interview participants, all of whom had experienced a mental breakdown at some point in their career. Using a semi-structured protocol, the teachers were interviewed individually at different times and settings. An inductive content analysis was used to interpret the data for all participants. The findings showed four themes, namely medical treatment, religion, family and societal support, and positivity to be the dominant factors of coping. Four subthemes emerged from religious coping, i.e., prayers, Qur’an reading, protective factor, and diseases of the heart. These subthemes suggested an association between spiritual practices and mental well-being. Apart from seeking professional help and getting appropriate medical treatment, the study also revealed the importance of engaging in various spiritual practices such as performing the five daily prayers, zikr, salawat shifa', and reading the Qur'an, strategies that produced the feelings of peace and calmness in the participants which were instrumental in helping them cope with their illness and become productive teachers.
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title	Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness
title_short	Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness
title_full	Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness
title_fullStr	Exploring Six Muslim Teachers’ Coping Strategies in Overcoming Mental Illness
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