Doors and thresholds: Jeddi's approach to psychiatric disorders

Devisch, René; Vervaeck, Bart

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(86)90021-3

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“…The primary objective of good psychiatric ward design is to create a comfortable and therapeutic setting that promotes both interest and activity (Remen, 1991). A variety of methodologies to assess in-patient environments have been used, including participant observation (Christenfeld & Haveliwala, 1978), anthropological perspectives (Devisch & Vervaek, 1986) and the use of specifically developed standardised tools (Jorda-Moscardo & Iborra, 1991). Allowing psychiatric patients some control over their own environment is likely to produce positive effects (Lacy, 1981) and colour has been shown to produce consistent changes in mood states (Stone & English, 1998).…”

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The environment psychiatric patients create for themselves: the varying perceptions of professional staff

et al. 2001

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Aims and MethodsA pilot study was undertaken to investigate whether there was evidence that professional staffs' perception of a patient's environment were significantly altered by certain variables.ResultsGender and, to a lesser extent, age were found to be variables that significantly affect the perception of a patient's personal environment.Clinical ImplicationsPsychiatrists and other mental health professionals should be aware that there may be significant differences between the way individual professionals perceive the same visual environment. Psychiatry may benefit from future links with environmental psychology research.

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