Literature Review Of Prevention And Treatment Of Pedophilia Based On Psychospiritual Quran And Sunnah

Pedophilia becomes a serious crime that haunts children in community nowadays. Pedophilia is a current issue that increasing steadily in every year. This problem which considered as serious issue has struck in many places around the world including Malaysia. Pedophilia is included in psychological disorder category and defined as sexual interest toward young children either boys or girls in prepubertal or early pubertal age. Various efforts have been done to overcome this problem, but, the results are still unsatisfactory. The recidivism rate of pedophilia is not a small matter which need to be concern seriously. Therefore, the focus of this study is to find new alternative to solve this problem by creating a prevention and treatment education model of pedophilia based on psychospiritual Quran and Sunnah. Psychospiritual is a spiritual method that has been used to treat problems which related to moral collapse and mental illness. The qualitative studies through textual analysis by using library research approach found that clinical treatments for pedophiles were not very satisfactory besides of provided side effects to the patients. Psychospiritual approach based on Holy Quran and Prophet’s Tradition have begun to be used in some places as a new alternative treatment for those who are troubled such as drug addiction problem and produced positive effect. However, this method has not been applied to address the problem of pedophilia. Therefore, it is suggested some research need to be conducted regarding the use of psychospiritual method based on Quran and Sunnah to overcome pedophilia’s problem either for the treatment of pedophiles or prevention from being a victim of this crime.