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Updating Mental or Behavioral Health Language and Design to a Modern Healthcare Approach

In this article for Behavioral Health News, Brooke Martin, AIA, CCHP, NCARB, and Cassey Franco, AIA, LEED AP, describe how changing the way we look at mental and behavioral health patients, updating our healthcare industry language and terminology, and improving our design strategies can have a profound impact on patient and client experience and the recovery process. See page 18. This article was originally published in the Fall 2022 Issue of Behavioral Health News and has been reprinted with permission. The original article post can be found here. For more information, please visit www.behavioralhealthnews.org or contact dminot@mhnews.org.

New State Psychiatric Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
New State Psychiatric Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In this article for Behavioral Health News, Brooke Martin, AIA, CCHP, NCARB, and Cassey Franco, AIA, LEED AP, describe how changing the way we look at mental and behavioral health patients, updating our healthcare industry language and terminology, and improving our design strategies can have a profound impact on patient and client experience and the recovery process. See page 18.

This article was originally published in the Fall 2022 Issue of Behavioral Health News and has been reprinted with permission. The original article post can be found here. For more information, please visit www.behavioralhealthnews.org or contact dminot@mhnews.org.

Published in Behavioral Health News, Fall 2022. By Brooke Martin and Cassey Franco.

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