A Comparative Study of Counseling Components of Psychology and Islam

Islam as a Comprehensive School gives great importance to mental, psych and religious health of human. Thus, Islam has provided necessary arrangements to realization of it by offering required commands and programs. One valuable guideline of Islam in this regard is recommend consulting, discussing and consulting on various social issues and the use of specialty fellows in providing physical and mental health and recommending to ethical terms in counseling. In this paper which is presented in two distinct parts, while explaining the concept of consulting from a religious and contemporary psychology perspective and considering the similarities and differences between them, the importance of counseling and counselor characteristics in terms of religion explored and the positive consequences of these features of counseling are referred.