Mental Health and the Built Environment : More Than Bricks and Mortar?

This book explores the relationship between built environment and the occurence of mental ill-health. In a coherent and original style, the book begins by providing a broad overview of what is known about the causes of mental ill-health, and discusses the issues that arise when attempting to identify the impact of the environment on mental health.
The author examines the role of the environment as a source of stress; the effects that the environment can have on the quality of relationships between people; and the relationship between symbolic aspects of the environment, the planning process and mental health. The book uses new analyses and detailed studies drawn from the UK and US.
Mental Health and the Built Environment will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and modules on Environmental psychology and will be very relevant to social, abnormal and health psychology students. The book provides explanations of terms in a very clear style throughout, and will therefore also be of interest to mental health professionals and planning and design students who are new to this field.

Explores the relationship between the built environment and the occurrence of what the author calls mental ill-health (rather than mental illness). The volume begins with an overview of what is known about the causes of mental ill-health, and discusses the issues that arise when attempting to identify the impact of the environment on mental health. The author examines the role of the environment as a source of stress; the effects that the environment can have on the quality of relationships between people; and the relationship between symbolic aspects of the environment, the planning process, and mental health. The analyses and case studies are drawn from the UK and US. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

General

ISBN		9780748402359
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Taylor & Francis
Pages		240
List Price		$180.00
Author		Halpern, David
Publication Date		11/01/1995
Release Status		In Print
Format		Hardcover
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 10.25 Inches (US) Width: 7 Inches (US) Thickness: 1 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 1.35 Pounds (US)