Graduate Student Zeynep Cakmak Publishes Article on Counseling Muslim-American Youth
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Zeynep Cakmak, a master’s student in the , recently published an article in on expanding the counseling practice to include interventions that focus specifically on Muslim adolescents’ mental health. Research has suggested that utilizing integrative approaches in therapy can provide fruitful therapeutic results with Muslim clients. Zeynep’s aim was to help increase counselor awareness, knowledge, and competence to better support this population by providing correlations between Islamic practices, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
Zeynep is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA student and a current . She is working towards specializing in religion and spirituality in counseling (specifically Muslim mental health), trauma counseling, counseling adolescents, and bibliotherapy.