Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 11
- November 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages781–788Since funds for the construction of new treatment facilities are scarce, outmoded wards must be redesigned to meet the current needs of users. The authors feel the redesign must integrate modern therapeutic concepts, humanistic patient requirements, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.11.781Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages789–792The authors describe the architectural, design, and mental health treatment concepts underlying the village system, a group of regional inpatient mental health facilities planned in South Carolina. One of the villages is currently under construction and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.11.789Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages793–796An environment that stimulates the auditory, visual, and tactile senses increases appropriate behavior among mentally retarded clients and thereby reinforces their learning activities. The author describes several low-cost design techniques for giving a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.11.793Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages796–799The standards developed in 1972 by the Accreditation Council for Psychiatric Facilities of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals cover 28 components of mental health programs, including the environment and patient safety. The author discusses ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.11.796Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages802–806Administrators and others responsible for the design of environments for the mentally ill must be aware that what might be considered irrelevant minutiae of design can have traumatic effects on patients. Because of patients' heightened sensitivity to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.11.802Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages807–813An architectural team worked closely with a county building committee and the administrative staff of a Wisconsin county hospital to design a new active-treatment facility. The goals included changing the hospital's negative image in the community, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.11.807Publication date: 01 November 1976
Pages814–819Using an environmental-design concept called pattern language, an architectural design group worked with five mental health center staff members to locate, design, and move into a setting for a satellite counseling center. The group first identified ...
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