ABSTRACT

The Handbook of Mental Health and Space brings together the psychosocial work on experiences of space and mental distress, making explicit the links between theoretical work and clinical and community practice. The change from an institutional to community care model of mental health services can be seen as a fundamental spatial change in the lives of service users, and the book aims to to stimulate discussion about mental healthcare spaces and their design.With contributions from those involved in theorizing space, those drawing on their own experiences of distress and space, as well as practitioners working on the ground,the book will be of interest to mental health practitioners and academics.

chapter |36 pages

Introduction

part I|80 pages

Institutional spaces

chapter 1|11 pages

Regulation and Resistance in the Smoking Room at a Mental Health Ward

Struggles for a space ‘in-between’

chapter 2|5 pages

Madlove

A designer asylum

chapter 3|19 pages

Children’s Spaces of Mental Health

Users’ experiences of two contrasting child and adolescent mental health outpatients in the UK

chapter 4|14 pages

Negotiating Adult Authority

Young people’s experience of adolescent mental health wards

part II|117 pages

Community spaces

chapter 7|16 pages

Sustaining Spaces

Community meal provision and mental well-being

chapter 8|14 pages

Bursting Bubbles of Interiority

Exploring space in experiences of distress and rough sleeping for newly homeless people

chapter 9|14 pages

Caring Spaces and Practices

Does social prescribing offer new possibilities for the fluid mess of ‘mental health’?

chapter 10|17 pages

Spaces of ‘Sanctuary’

Unfolding older, mental health service users’ experiences within the spaces of the home

chapter 12|14 pages

Social Media and Mental Health

A topological approach

chapter 13|20 pages

Walking through and being with Nature

Meaning-making and the impact of being in UK wild places

part III|73 pages

Interventions in space and place

chapter 14|13 pages

Geedka Shirka (Under the Tree)

Cultural, migratory and community spaces for preventative interventions with Somali men and their families

chapter 15|13 pages

Tea in the Pot, ‘Third Place’ or ‘Social Prescription’?

Exploring the positive impact on mental health of a voluntary women’s group in Glasgow

chapter 16|17 pages

Institutionalising People in the Community

A reflection on distress

chapter 18|15 pages

The Outsider Gallery

Using art and music to open up mental health spaces