Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit [Paperback]

Barbara J. Huelat (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0966854519 | ISBN-13: 978-0966854510 | Publication Date: June 2003

Do people heal faster if they're comfortable? Environments can heal, but they can also harm. By designing with an eye towards the body, mind and spirit, we can create environments that promote healing and inner peace. "Creating Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit," offers practical advise for those seeking to create healing places.

Body-mind medicine enjoys exceptional popularity today as the aging population looks for ways to conquer illness. This book addresses current healthcare philosophies with holistic recommendations typicall overlooked in traditional medicine. This is not about modern miracles in medicine, but about the human side of healing - how people survive hostile places by immersing themselves in the positive pleasures of being human.

"Creating Healing Environments for the Body, Mind and Spirit," explores environments that promote healing for all three aspects of life. Healing environments embrace the spirit found in nature and in our God as experienced through the celebration of life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book proves the author truly understands the real needs of patients" -- Caregiver - Little Sisters of the Poor, July 20, 2003

About the Author

Barbara J. Huelat is nationally recognized for her award winning and human sensitive healthcare design. In her 30 years as a practicing interior designer, she has served over 200 healthcare clients with visionary solutions. Ms. Huelat was a founding board member for the Center on Healthcare Design and former corporate vice president of healthcare interior architecture at Ellerbe Becket, as well as professional and academic positions. In addition her personal enlightenment matured through other healing roles of hospice volunteer, mom, wife, patient advocate and her own patient experiences. A popular speaker, Ms. Huelat lectures frequently for the design, medical and consumer audiences and publishes articles on a spectrum of healthcare design topics. Her firm Huelat Parimucha Healthcare Design, shared with her architect husband, is dedicated to design which supports positive patient outcomes. Successful changes made in her design practice prove that she is not only a woman of vision, but an author whose beliefs spring from the compassionate needs of patients.

Product Details

• Paperback: 241 pages
• Publisher: Medezyn (June 2003)
• ISBN-10: 0966854519
• ISBN-13: 978-0966854510
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,854,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars To open the forgotten door of the interior design field, September 9, 2003

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Olga Sokolova (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit (Paperback)

I am studying this book with a highlighter and a pen. I agree with author's concepts completely. It feels right internally. The phrase, "[a]ddressing barriers to healing should begin in the privacy and comfort of our own homes and the places in which we work to ensure we build environments supportive of health and well-being[,]" from the book is my professional goal of the interior designer. This work is an excellent guide in the creation of healing designs. I highly recommend this book to other interior design professionals and anybody else because it opens the forgotten door in the design field called "Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit."

4.0 out of 5 stars An Innovative look, September 2, 2003

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A. Bell (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit (Paperback)

This book bridges the many aspects of life we take for granted but intuitively know, and combines it with sensitive design approaches that I haven't come across before.
Designers and members of a building team should consider many aspects of the environment to make a project a success-but often don't. This book touches upon everything from empowering a patient, removing the barriers, to the spirit within us.
It can be appreciated and used by the design industry as well as any person who recognizes the sensitivity needed for a healthy environment.