Design Foundations For Mental Illness Buildings


Abstract in English

The Individual is the main entity of society, if he's in good health he's able to positively contribute to the development of the society, developed countries have recognized this fact, making it an interest in providing health care to the individual, which is not limited to aspects of membership, but it also included the psychological aspects that become a most important aspect in health of the individual because of the increase of the destitute in the number of psychiatric patients, which coincided with technological progress and civilization so it led to a change in the concept of mental health care than it was previously, also led to changes in methods of treatment for psychiatric patients, and changes in the concepts of the place, which provides this health care, the modern concept of building health care for psychiatric patients must take into account the important role played by those buildings in the treatment, no longer seen as containers separating of these patients, but rather becoming more like living organisms that interact with them, they are affect them equally affected by them and through its behavior .

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