15 October 2006
Healing Spaces for Psychiatric Care
Heathcare Facilities Symposium and Expo.
October 24-25 2006. Navy Pier Chicago, IL.
Full programmeOn Thursday 26th Oct 2006 at 9am,
Bradley Karlin Ph.D., Psychology Service, VA Palo Alto,
Marc Schweitzer, Senior Architect, The Design Partnership and
Deborah Grizzard, Chief Nurse Mental Health Service, VA Palo Alto will lead the session:
Healing Spaces for Psychiatric Care: Current research on the Elements of Environmental Design that Impact Health.
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The "ambiance" of a space has an effect on people using the space. Recently, mainstream design for health care environments has begun to include esthetic enhancements in an attempt to reduce stress and anxiety, increase patient satisfaction, and promote health and healing.
Using our current 80-bed Inpatient Acute Psychiatric Facility project for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA as a model, we will present a comprehensive survey of the existing research on those elements of the built and natural environment most often asserted by proponents as being inherently healing or promoting health.
The information will be structured in a hierarchy of effect ranging from simply nontoxic to safe (both physically and psychologically) to "providing a positive context" to being actively salutogenic. ’
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