Epistemic injustice in the mental health narratives of Muslim youths

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Anggun Natasha Binte Jailani
• مؤلفون آخرون: Melvin Chen
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2025
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities; Philosophy
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/183231
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Youths raised in religious communities often face unique challenges when dealing with mental health struggles. This paper explores how Muslim youths in particular may experience epistemic injustice, as defined by Miranda Fricker. I argue that these youths often encounter testimonial injustice when their mental health struggles are dismissed or discredited by religious leaders due to stigma, misconceptions, or a lack of awareness of secular mental health frameworks. I also examine how hermeneutical injustice occurs when these youths lack the interpretive resources to articulate their experiences in a way that resonates with both their religious identity and contemporary psychological understanding. I propose that the promotion of integrating religious and secular approaches to mental health can help reduce these forms of epistemic injustice, creating a more supportive framework for addressing the mental health needs of Muslim youths.