The Approaches of Mental Health Improvement from the Viewpoints of Qur an and Hadith

Mental health has always been an important issue for human beings. They have constantly sought various approaches to improve mental health and treat psychological-moral illnesses.The present study aims to investigate different approaches of improving individuals’ mental health on the basis of an applied, organized and Islamic system; therefore, having delivered basic concepts of mental health and individuals’ psychological-moral illnesses, the authors explained some approaches of improving individuals’ mental health with the application of both general and specialized treatments. Then, preventive health care and treatment strategies were introduced at three primary, secondary and tertiary levels at different years of age as a child, adolescent, young, old, and extremely old person. These strategies were discussed with regard to Qur’an and Hadith to represent a rich and structured system of Islamic psychology and applied ethics in Islam.Owing to the fact that Islam is one of the richest and most widespread religions which paid much attention to the psychological issues, the current study had to and deliver just a schematic pattern and used some examples of Qur’an and Hadith to exemplify the authors’ suggested method. This study employed new procedures of prioritizing, classifying and exemplifying some statements from Qur’an or Hadith.