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Chrysikou, an architect, researcher, and academic, describes the design of specialized residential architectures for people with mental health disorders, demonstrating how building design can support medical and health-related procedures and practices and better therapeutic outcomes and quality of life for residents and carers. She visited facilities for mentally ill people in different European countries and draws on case studies of those in the UK and France. She reviews old practices and current medical, psychosocial, and architectural thinking to identify current influences and views on the planning of mental health facilities, and presents an alternative model for planning and design, then discusses the buildings in her case studies, an architectural checklist tool, policy in terms of spatial organization and design decisions based on users' perspectives, and the implications of her research. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
