Jenkin, Gabrielle;
Marques, Bruno;
Peterson, Debbie;
Chrysikou, Evangelia;
McIntosh, Jacqueline;
Every-Palmer, Suzanna;
(2022)
Contemporary issues in acute mental health facility design: insights from the Aotearoa New Zealand experience.
Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online
10.1080/1177083X.2022.2093229.
(In press).
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Abstract
Renewed focus on mental health has put the spotlight on the ‘black box’ that is the acute mental health facility. Drawing on a larger programme of research, key issues relevant to the planning and design of mental health units were identified from in-depth interviews with those using the facilities. Contemporary issues included: visibility from the outside and wayfinding, need to accommodate cultural needs extending to the family and community, perceptions of and actual safety and violence, the need for access to nature and fresh air, and facilitating meaningful activities. Stigma and its spatial expression were a crosscutting theme throughout.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Contemporary issues in acute mental health facility design: insights from the Aotearoa New Zealand experience |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1177083X.2022.2093229 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2022.2093229 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | acute mental health, architectural design, social stigma, meaningful activities |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt > Bartlett Real Estate Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151248 |
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