Designing mental health facilities: an interactive process.
Program and funding changes in mental health service delivery in the past 15 years have resulted in ever-changing demands on the use of physical space in mental health facilities. An interactive planning process facilitated by a multidisciplinary design team can anticipate and address many difficulties with space utilization in construction or renovation. An architectural feasibility, study, including a careful definition of user requirements, is a useful document for facilitating intraagency communication, securing external funding, and moving capital projects to completion.
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School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002648:Child; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014481:United States