Healing Heroes: a model for connecting community to PTSD therapy Centers

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dc.contributor.advisorNoonan, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.authorRivers, Johnen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T06:30:24Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T06:30:24Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Iraq and Afghanistan wars tremendously increased the demand among veterans for mental health services. About two in every five veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom will have mental health challenges -- resulting in 500,000 to 800,000 veterans in need. Not all of these veterans will seek treatment in the Veteran Affairs Health Care System but those who do face longer and longer wait times. Increased media coverage on tragedies largely attributed to PTSD such as the 2014 Fort Hood shooting have applied greater public and political pressure on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to find strategies to mitigate these unfortunate events. This thesis seeks to build upon this public support for veteran care and work in-conjunction with the VA to develop a new, state-of-the-art Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder facility by recommending PTSD therapy centers serve local populations, promote patient recovery through architecture solutions and be removed from the institutional environments they are found in today.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2KS4C
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16008
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCommunityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDesignen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDevelopmenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPTSDen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTherapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVeteranen_US
dc.titleHealing Heroes: a model for connecting community to PTSD therapy Centersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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