Architecture for psychiatric environments and therapeutic spaces

Architecture for psychiatric environments and therapeutic spaces / Evangelia Chrysikou, Architect Medical Planner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chrysikou, Evangelia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospitals > Design and construction.
Hospital architecture.
Psychoanalysis and architecture.
Psychiatric hospitals.
hospitals (buildings for health facility)
psychiatric hospitals.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Psychiatric hospitals
Hospital architecture
Psychiatric hospitals > Design and construction
Psychoanalysis and architecture
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Part 1
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Care in the Community
  • 1.2 Design for Domesticity
  • 1.3 Mental health service users and their needs
  • 1.4 Towards a Model for Rehabilitation
  • 1.5 Structure of the Book and Presentation of Ideas
  • 2 History of mental health and its expression in architecture
  • 2.1 The onset of psychiatry: from God-given medicine to the deep roots of Western psychiatry and "back" to the Great Confinement
  • 2.2 From the ideals of the French Revolution to the asylums
  • 2.3 The transition from the "second Age of Confinement" to social psychiatry
  • 2.4 Social psychiatry and the return of the mentally ill into the community
  • 2.5 The rationalisation of mental health care under the managerial perspective and the involvement of social services
  • 2.6 Community Care in the UK and France from the Eighties on
  • 2.7 Key messages regarding Community Care
  • 3 My view: the SCP model
  • 3.1 Opposing frameworks for the planning of mental health services
  • 3.1.1 Specialists' concepts
  • 3.1.2 Normalisation theory
  • 3.1.3 Social exclusion in the community
  • 3.1.4 From exclusion to social valorization
  • 3.1.5 What lies between the asylum and the misinterpretation of domesticity: the need for a new paradigm
  • 3.1.6 Safety and security
  • 3.1.7 Competence
  • 3.1.8 Personalisation and choice
  • 3.2 The physical milieu of the psychiatric units
  • 3.2.1 The interface with the community: location, scale and external appearance
  • 3.2.2 Outdoor areas
  • 3.2.3 Internal organisation of facilities
  • 3.2.4 Decoration of facilities
  • 3.2.5 Patterns
  • 3.2.6 Colour
  • 3.2.7 Light
  • 3.2.8 Furniture and fittings
  • 3.2.9 Dealing with tough budgets: small changes
  • 3.3 Need for research
  • 4 The physical context
  • 4.1 The selection of cases.
  • 4.2 The SCP model': towards a critical scoping of the concept of Domesticity
  • 4.3 The design of the user-centred questionnaires
  • 4.4 The conduct of the fieldwork
  • 4.5 The need for an architectural checklist
  • 4.6 The detailed design of the Checklist
  • 4.7 Advantages and limitations of the methodology
  • Part 2
  • 5 The physical milieu of research: the unit buildings
  • 5.1 The care regimes
  • 5.2 Building descriptions
  • 5.2.1 Bois St Joseph
  • 5.2.2 Elan Retrouve
  • 5.2.3 Francois Tosquelles
  • 5.2.4 Geraniums
  • 5.2.5 Rene Capitant
  • 5.2.6 Albany Lodge
  • 5.2.7 Forest Lodge
  • 5.2.8 Lakeside
  • 5.2.9 New Bridges
  • 5.2.10 Small Heath
  • 5.3 Qualitative Evaluation of Case Studies
  • 5.3.1 Safety and security
  • 5.3.2 Competence
  • 5.3.3 Personalisation and choice
  • 5.3.4 Does size matter?
  • 6 Architectural Checklist analysis
  • 6.1 Overall performance according to the checklist
  • 6.1.1 The foyers'/wards' performance according to the checklist
  • 6.1.2 The Context and Site features
  • 6.1.3 The "Building" group of features
  • 6.1.4 The Space and Room Group of features
  • 6.2 Overall Frequencies of Institutional features
  • 7 The users' perspectives
  • 7.1 Safety and security
  • 7.1.1 Staff
  • 7.1.2 General organisation of the building and building features mentioned by staff
  • 7.1.3 Service users' concerns on safety related issues
  • 7.1.4 Issues related to safety and security that could be connected to design implications
  • 7.1.5 Staff and service user perspective on the safety and the security of the facilities
  • 7.2 Competence
  • 7.2.1 Staff views on service users' competence
  • 7.2.2 Spatial organisation issues related to service users competence according to staff
  • 7.2.3 Service users' concerns regarding competence
  • 7.2.4 Spatial organisation issues related to service users competence according to service users.
  • 7.2.5 Main findings related to competence for staff and service users
  • 7.3 Issues related to personalisation and choice
  • 7.3.1 Staff on issues regarding psychosocial aspects of care
  • 7.3.2 Staff on personalisation and choice design features
  • 7.3.3 Service users on personalisation and choice regime related issues
  • 7.3.4 Service users on personalisation and choice issues that were relevant to the space of the foyers/wards
  • 7.3.5 Main findings on personalisation and choice
  • 8 Conclusions
  • 8.1 The cross cultural comparison
  • 8.1.1 Safety and security
  • 8.1.2 Competence
  • 8.1.3 Personalisation and Choice
  • 8.2 Further research
  • 8.3 The significance of architecture and design
  • References.

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