Innovations in behavioural health architecture / Stephen Verderber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verderber, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Health aspects.

Architecture.

Health facilities--Design and construction.

Health facilities.

Hospital architecture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Innovations in Behavioural Health Architecture is the most comprehensive book written on this topic in more than 40 years. It examines the ways in which healthcare architecture can contribute, as a highly valued informational and reference source, to the provision of psychiatric and addictive disorder treatment in communities around the world. It provides an overview of the need for a new generation of progressively planned and designed treatment centres - both inpatient and outpatient care environments - and the advantages, challenges, and opportunities associated with meeting the burgeoning need for treatment settings of this type. Additional chapters address the specifics of geriatric psychiatry and its architectural ramifications in light of the rapid aging of societies globally and provide a comprehensive compendium of planning and design considerations for these places in both inpatient and outpatient care contexts. Finally, the book presents an expansive and fully illustrated set of international case studies that express state-of-the-art advancements in architecture for behavioural healthcare"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Background: Chapter 1 Introduction / Stephen Verderber ; Chapter 2 Architecture for mental and behavioural health: a brief history 1960-2010 / Stephen Verderber ; Chapter 3 Special populations: children and adolescents, the aged, and the displaced / Stephen Verderber

Part 2. Design: Chapter 4 Reinventing an asylum / Stephen Verderber ; Chapter 5 Planning and design considerations for behavioural health architecture / Stephen Verderber

Part 3. Case studies: Chapter 6 Case studies 1-25 / Stephen Verderber.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 02, 2020)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315213866

9781351819879

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781315213866 doi

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.