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“Paradise Room”
Published in Paul A. Rodgers, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2022
In addition, a sensory room should be flexible and adaptable to provide for a range of activities, including group activities, catering for varying users and group sizes. Also, to overcome economic barriers, cost-effective solutions need to be developed, and equipment and technology on the more expensive end carefully selected.
The psychiatric intensive care unit
Published in Chambers Mary, Psychiatric and mental health nursing, 2017
Christopher Dzikiti, Rebecca Lingard
Sensory rooms are not a new phenomenon; they have been around since the 1970s. Sensory rooms first emerged in the Netherlands and were designed for people who experienced learning difficulties. The use of sensory rooms was first developed by Jan Hulsegge and Ad Verheul, two Dutch therapists working at the De Hartenberg Institute in Holland. The intention of a sensory room is to create an environment in which an individual can stimulate any of their five senses in a safe and non-threatening environment. The provision of safe and comfortable surroundings for people in distress creates an ideal opportunity to explore safe therapeutic relationships between patients and clinicians, and to begin to understand the basis of distress.
An Integrative Review of Sensory Approaches in Adult Inpatient Mental Health: Implications for Occupational Therapy in Prison-Based Mental Health Services
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2021
Gisele Craswell, Crystal Dieleman, Parisa Ghanouni
Using the sensory modulation approach in practice can be defined as “engaging a person’s senses to change how they feel.” (O’Sullivan & Fitzgibbon, 2018, p.5). It can include standardized assessment tools, therapeutic use of self, environmental modifications, and various sensory strategies and activities to help individuals self-regulate, cope with difficult situations, prevent crisis, and intervene in crisis (Champagne, 2011). A sensory modulation approach commonly reported in the research is the sensory room. Sensory rooms, which are sometimes referred to by other names, such as comfort rooms or multisensory rooms, are dedicated spaces that are primarily designed for providing soothing sensory input (Scanlan & Novak, 2015). These rooms will include various items to stimulate the senses, such as weighted blankets, rocking chairs, relaxation music, pleasant visual images such as wall murals or nature DVDs, aromatherapy, fidget tools, vibration mats or massage chairs (Champagne, 2006; Champagne, 2011; O’Sullivan & Fitzgibbon, 2018). When occupational therapists use a sensory modulation approach, an assessment is usually completed that includes examination of the service user’s sensory preferences and sensory processing patterns (Brown & Dunn, 2002; Champagne, 2011; O’Sullivan & Fitzgibbon, 2018). This helps ensure that the sensory approaches used are person-centred and meeting the individual’s unique needs (Champagne, 2011).
An Evaluation of a Sensory Room within an Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2020
Emma Dorn, Danielle Hitch, Christopher Stevenson
The sensory room is a locked space with equipment available to enable exploration of sensory preferences, over which consumers have personal choice. This space was developed by the occupational therapists on AMHRU, as part of a broader suite of SMIs across the mental health service. Equipment includes various types of seating (glider chair, massage chair and bean bag), auditory equipment (iPod and speakers), visual equipment (lights, fiber optics, projector, ‘star lamp’), tactile and weighted equipment (weighted blankets and equipment, tactile toys, hand held massage equipment), olfactory (oils, scented playdoughs, demister) and gustatory items (different chewy, sour and sweet lollies). Consumers may ask any staff member to inititiate sensory room use, and it is also offered by multidisciplinary staff as a strategy to reduce arousal. Occupational therapists also faciltiate open sessions which allow consumers to explore the space with supervision and support.
It’s Not Just in the Walls: Patient and Staff Experiences of a New Spatial Design for Psychiatric Inpatient Care
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Jenny Molin, Maria Strömbäck, Mats Lundström, Britt-Marie Lindgren
Other features described by staff as good for patients included the new balcony that gives patients denied solitary walks access to fresh air and a view of the outside, a new glass-walled room equipped with blinds that enables patients to have private visits with relatives, and a cosy room where the patients could have some privacy, respite, and recovery. The sensory room was used for yoga or other forms of relaxation, and the more patients discovered the room, the more of them used it.