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The In-Between : Transitional Space as Recovery Dockrill, Megan

Abstract

For someone who is able to access mental health services such as clinical therapy, we are confronted with many spaces that take a similar approach aesthetically to a sterile hospital-like environment or a space which is catered more towards functionality and efficiency rather than experience of space for the patient. The way many of these spaces are configured and designed can be off-putting as well as triggering. With the stigma of mental healthcare still hanging over us like a cloud, it is easier for us to connect and heal through everyday spaces or interventions than through traditional means. What if we started to think of our surrounding spaces as supportive tools towards mental health healing? While utilizing therapeutic methodologies such as grounding and chromotherapy, embracing the idea of transitional space as a place to process as well as the power that nature and spatial conditions have on our overall well-being; we can begin to understand and foster the human connection to healing, space and the turbulent road to recovery.

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Title
The In-Between : Transitional Space as Recovery
Creator
Dockrill, Megan
Date Issued
2024-05
Description
For someone who is able to access mental health services such as clinical therapy, we are confronted with many spaces that take a similar approach aesthetically to a sterile hospital-like environment or a space which is catered more towards functionality and efficiency rather than experience of space for the patient. The way many of these spaces are configured and designed can be off-putting as well as triggering. With the stigma of mental healthcare still hanging over us like a cloud, it is easier for us to connect and heal through everyday spaces or interventions than through traditional means. What if we started to think of our surrounding spaces as supportive tools towards mental health healing? While utilizing therapeutic methodologies such as grounding and chromotherapy, embracing the idea of transitional space as a place to process as well as the power that nature and spatial conditions have on our overall well-being; we can begin to understand and foster the human connection to healing, space and the turbulent road to recovery.
Subject
Post-Secondary Care; Mental Health Recovery; Mental Health; Recovery; Healing; Experience of Space; Psychotherapy; Therapy; PTSD; Trauma; Therapy Clinic; Alternative Healing; Sensorial Experience; Sensory; Grounding; Chromotherapy; Light and Colour for Recovery; Modelmaking; UBC Mental Health
Geographic Location
University of British Columbia; Vancouver (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2024-05-06
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0442338
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88231
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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