In the hands of clinical psychologists, Design Psychology can be a “design therapy” that (like art therapy) helps clients move more healthily along their life journey.
The bathroom can conjure up images of birth, of the beginning, of water which we must cross, of water in which we may be purified: The bathroom of the hero/ine's journey.
In this cyber-crazed world, is it a good thing for patients to have Internet access or should we be creating an 'Oasis by Design' that shields them from outside distraction?
A new idea in patient-centered design and art therapy? Through Design Psychology techniques you can envision and create nurturing places for yourself or your community.
In her workshop "Creating a Healing Oasis," Toby Israel helped the YWCA Princeton Breast Cancer Resource Center take charge of their own space rennovation.
Every therapist's space provides the backdrop against which clients' personal dramas will be revealed. Yet, psychologists receive little, if any, training about how to set an effective stage for the client-practitioner interplay.