La humanización en los centros de cuidado psiquiátrico a través del diseño de espacios terapéuticos

Abstract

The present research project consists of studying the existing alternative treatments within the medical specialty of psychiatry, its characteristics, purposes and effects in the patients and how to project them towards a physical space, more specifically in psychiatric care centers or care homes for patients with mental disorders, so that the space gives people the experience of feeling welcomed in a care center designed according to the needs required by their condition and surrounded by a more human environment with therapeutic characteristics which contribute to improve their state of health both physical and mental and allow them to raise their level of quality of life. Based on an investigation about the state and functioning of the psychiatric centers at the beginning and at the national level, the need arises to establish a project that contributes to the functioning and improvement of the services provided by the psychiatric centers, focusing from the point of view of the interior design, the purpose of therapeutic spaces is to positively stimulate the senses and perceptions of patients, reducing their levels of stress, emotional disturbances and restoring their levels of seigniorial perception, facilitating the acceptance and assimilation of any other suggested medical treatment . Due to the social nature and interest for this product to be used as a model or reference in the contribution and improvement of the warm life of patients, we opted for a qualitative research approach, this approach allowed us to get closer and live a little of what is the life of a patient with mental disorders in a psychiatric care center in the locality, to observe beforehand their form and lifestyle as well as the physical conditions and characteristics that the center possesses, allowed to establish in a more concrete way the objectives and goals within a proposal applied to the Center for Rest and Neuropsychiatric Diseases Sacred Heart of Jesus, which collects all investigative resources to establish a humanistic, therapeutic and social design that demonstrates the value of multidisciplinary intervention to generate therapeutic spaces and vulnerable patients such as patients with psychiatric disorders or illnesses can access more personalized care, focused their needs, medical, personal and emotional affective.