Manijeh Daneshpour. Family Therapy with Muslims. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

In 2018, a Pew Research Center article entitled "New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow" took a national stance.To the surprise of many, it highlighted a new discussion: Islam will be the second largest religion in the U.S. by 2040 (Mohamed 2018).For some, this marks a moment of change and a long-waited potential for inclusion; for others it marks fear, mostly due to the unknown and the negative and oppressive rhetoric spread by the rise of global Islamophobia.As we progress towards this pivotal year, one thing remains clear: We as clinicians need as many tools as possible to provide the most cultural, religious, and spiritually aligned interventions for our American Muslim communities as possible.Previously, the accessibility and range of resources that supported their mental health care was very bleak, as most Muslims were seen as a monolith and securitized under the threat of terror.As research began to shift, we started to embrace the wealth of diversity found within this specific population.Although this can be quite invigorating, it comes with several inherent shortcomings.As highlighted by the Pew Research Center article, the community's ongoing growth can be connected to several factors, such as immigration patterns and rising conversion rates (Mohamed 2018).While this provides some insight into what is occurring in the country, it only gives us a partial picture of how to serve these various community needs.Therefore, two questions need to be asked and addressed with regards to the clinical training that mental health practitioners provide to this community:1. Have clinicians identified how Western clinical training could stifle the understanding of distinct needs within Muslim families?2. How do clinicians incorporate an Islamic-centered lens into Western clinical training?Manijeh Daneshpoura professor in the Department of Couples and Family Therapy of Alliant International University in Irvine, CA; and a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of academic and clinical experiencetakes a beautiful and concise systematic approach within her guide, Family Therapy with Muslims (2017).The first of its kind, she provides readers with a plethora of knowledge for both Muslim and non-Muslim practitioners.Her insights are broken into two parts: Part 1: Muslim Spiritual, Social, Family, and Political History; and Part 2: Family Therapy Theories.Part 1 provides mental-health practitioners with a general foundation of Islamic religious practice.The author both highlights and describes the importance of understanding Islam's foundational beliefs and dedicates an entire section to major cultural differences and similarities pertaining to family systems within various Islamic civilizations.For example, the distinction between South Asian, Arab, and African nations are described to better inform the reader on cues to enhance cultural understanding.All this tie into how we, as Western providers, have "umbrella-ed" the entire American Muslim experience into one, without understanding the inter-and intra-cultural differences, as suggested by the author.