TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Architectural design of a secure forensic state psychiatric hospital
JO  - Behavioral sciences and the law
A1  - Dvoskin, Joel A.
A1  - Radomski, Steven J.
A1  - Bennett, Charles
A1  - Olin, Jonathan A.
A1  - Hawkins, Robert L.
A1  - Dotson, Linda A.
A1  - Drewnicky, Irene N.
SP  - 481
EP  - 493
VL  - 20
IS  - 5
N2  - This article describes the architectural design of a secure forensic state psychiatric hospital. The project combined input from staff at all levels of the client organization, outside consultants, and a team of experienced architects. The design team was able to create a design that maximized patient dignity and privacy on one hand, and the ability of staff to observe all patient activity on the other. The design centers around 24-bed units, broken into smaller living wings of eight beds each. Each eight-bed living wing has its own private bathrooms (two) and showers (two), as well as a small living area solely reserved for these eight patients and their guests. An indoor-outdoor dayroom allows patients to go outside whenever they choose, while allowing staff to continue observing them. The heart of the facility is a large treatment mall, designed to foster the acquisition of social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills that will help patients to safely return to their communities. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-3936
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.506
ID  - ref1
ER  -