The 3rd SIFHAMS Scholar Talk on “Developing Disaster Mental Health: Psychological Interventions and Commensurate Therapeutic Skills in Islamic Settings", organized by the Sharjah International Foundation for the History of Arab and Muslim Sciences (SIFHAMS), in collaboration with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, College of Medicine, UoS, and delivered by Professor Emeritus Dr. Louis Downs, California State University, who shared basic premises used to train psychologists and counselors to provide intervention for crisis and disaster mental health relief.