1. Al Amal complex for mental health -Dammam
Fatimah H. Al-Qaisoum Instructor Arch. Manal Almusbeh

2. FACT:
“The environmental psychology of the hospital: is the cure worse than the illness” (Winkel & Holahan, 1986).

3. Outline Psychiatric Hospitals : Codes and Standards
General Information
Introduction
Departments
Types of treatments
Site plan
Floor plans
Interior Pictures
Problems
Specialists’ notes and recommendations
Conclusion

4. FACTS
The atmosphere of a building and its interior affect the psychological condition of users. Yet those factors play major roles in hospitals as they do in other buildings like homes, schools and offices. Healthcare facilities have been linked hardly within the healing of patients as researchers found.
Yet many healthcare building failed when it comes to the impact of their interiors on the users. These types of facilities mostly fail because they are hectic or inappropriate for the users. Researches had linked poor design with high levels of anxiety, delirium, elevated blood pressure and increased intake of pain drugs (e.g., Wilson, 1972; Ulrich 1984).

5. FACTS
In order to accomplish the healing process the patients should remain in:
• Usual environment
• Independent
• Self-supporting
Minimum team members:
• Two psychiatrists
• Five Nurses
• Two social workers
• One security

6. FACTS
Out-patients Clinics:
These types of clinics do not require the patients to spend a night in hospitals.
Beds are needed in the out-patients clinics. They are required in early treatment stage.
The accommodation needed for diagnoses and early treatments
Entrance hall with waiting areas and secretary office adjacent.
It is necessary to subdivide the waiting area by temporary means; also it should be suitable for informal group arrangement.
Consulting rooms and interviews rooms

7. FACTS
“The Psychiatric Patients should feel that they have the same status and are quite as welcome to a treatment unit as any other patient.”

8. FACTS
A day hospital
“A special facility or an arrangement within a hospital setting that enables the patient to come to the hospital for treatment during the day and return home at night.”
Small entrance
waiting hall with reception
records office
doctors' offices
social workers' office
Treatment area

9. FACTS I. Examination Room II. Treatment Room III. Group Therapy Room
Rooms:
I. Examination Room
II. Treatment Room
III. Group Therapy Room
IV. Group Testing Room
V. Biofeedback Lab Treatment & Control Room
VI. Office, Counselor
VII. Social Activities / Dining / Multi-Purpose
VIII. Classroom/ Group Room
IX. Occupational Therapy

10. Al Amal complex for mental health -Dammam

11. Al Amal complex for mental health -Dammam

12. Al Amal complex for mental health
Mental health departments
  Addiction
  Ambulance and emergency
  Clinics
  Laboratory
  Pharmacy
  Rehabilitation
  Security section
Department of programs and activities
Health education and awareness
Department guidance and family counseling
Normal Consulting
Telephone counseling
Electronic consulting

13. Al Amal complex for mental health
Medication
 Psychotherapy
 Social therapy
 Work treatment
 Religious treatment
 Physical Therapy

14. SITE PLAN
AMAL COMPLEX FOR MENTAL HEALTH – DAMMAM
Area m2

19. Interior Pictures

20. Interior Pictures

22. Psychiatric Reception

24. Pharmacy

25. Conference room

26. Conference room

27. Corridor - leading to the basement

28. Rehabilitation Section

29. Rehabilitation Section - Self-confidence, Self-esteem

30. Problems Colors Type of materials used Furniture used Ventilation
Natural light
Paintings
Long corridors

31. Specialists’ notes and recommendations
Make the space larger
Avoid the use of adjustments in furniture
Give them privacy but keep them safe
Avoid the use of warm colors
Do not let them feel they are different
For children: larger spaces, carpet or\ and rubber flooring
Codes, codes, and codes!

32. Thank you for listening if you have any question feel free to ask