Home and Away - Mothers and Babies in Institutional Spaces

Home and Away provides a comprehensive account of critical design for mental health, focusing on how health facilities can intentionally promote positive psychological outcomes through design and use of space.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: An Overview of Psychiatric Mother-Baby Unit Research
Chapter 3: The Design: Architect Perspectives
Chapter 4: The Space: Ethnographic Observations
Chapter 5: The Workspace: Staff Perspectives
Chapter 6: The Therapeutic Space: Service User Perspectives
Chapter 7: Conclusions

About the author

Kathleen Anne Connellan is a creative therapist.

Clemence Due is senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Adelaide.

Damien W. Riggs is professor in psychology at Flinders University and Australian Research Council future fellow.

Clare Bartholomaeus is research fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne and adjunct research fellow in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders University.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Bartholomaeus, Kathleen Connellan, Kathleen Due Connellan, Clemence Due, Damien W. Riggs
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781498592918
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9291-8
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Critical Perspectives on the P; Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories