ABSTRACT
In 1963, when Congress made large amounts of money available to build Community Mental Health Centers, the administrators of the CMHC building program proposed that all new mental health centers be exempted from any federal building standards, especially those of hospitals. In the past, people who felt a need for a more suitable environment stated their assumed needs and simply described a building that they thought might meet those needs. The basic intention of PAK is to help articulate the environmental implications of the Mental Health treatment programs in a specific community. Solving a problem through performance techniques entails putting the problem statement through a series of transformations which converts the statement of the Problem to a stated set of activities to a description of an “ideal” Setting.
