Thesis
A healing garden for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder in Shiaolin Village, Taiwan
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102584
Abstract
Early in the twentieth century, people started to experience a variety of symptoms which especially occurred after some serious crises such as wars, natural disasters or life-threatening accidents. Patients who were the survivors of those tragedies exhibited specific symptom patterns. Until 1980, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) defined this group of symptoms as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and illustrated the detailed criteria in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). Many tragic events that have occurred in the past ten years, such as wars in Middle East, earthquakes in China and Haiti, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and 911 in the United States, have caused the appearance of a new population composed of PTSD patients. Using outdoor spaces to extend the coverage of PTSD therapies allows the medical system to move toward completeness, since indoor treatments may not be sufficient in these cases. Moreover, the therapeutic benefits have nature are well documented. A healing garden as a type of outdoor therapy can provide therapeutic benefits by its natural environment and the creation of various rooms for users with different purposes. As a result, creating a therapeutic garden for PTSD sufferers that contains what they need may help to decrease their symptoms, to rehabilitate somatic trauma and to facilitate their return to normalcy. In order to help these people and improve the PTSD treatment system in hospitals, developing a design program of therapeutic gardens for PTSD patients and providing a suggestion of medical facilities in hospital design are the purposes of this thesis, with the hope of helping patients via landscape design.
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- Title
- A healing garden for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder in Shiaolin Village, Taiwan
- Creators
- Yung Chin Yang
- Contributors
- Kenneth A. Struckmeyer (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Horticulture, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525030101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis