2023-04-24 13:00:39
Led by the medical and paramedical communities of the GHU Paris psychiatry and neurosciences, calming spaces are being set up and evaluated in 6 units. This project is led by the Lab-ah (Laboratory of welcome and hospitality of the GHU Paris). A charter of calming spaces has been created so that this concept is adapted to the greatest number of services. Tools, still made in GHU, are currently being designed to support the patient during phases of distress. This is the case with “emotion cards”, tools designed to encourage introspection and the expression of feelings.
Within the Lasalle hospitalization unit (Paris 19th), this calming space includes an interview before and after the crisis. This moment of exchange with the healthcare team is a privileged space for communication with the patient: “ The management of the pole asked us to have a therapeutic mediation tool that would allow patients to translate their emotions, in particular for those who have difficulties in verbalization, explains Carine Delanoë-Vieux, director of the Lab-ah. We defined together 7 frank emotions. We had mentioned the idea of working on a slider to refine the feeling, but we didn’t pursue it because that was precisely the content of the exchange. The emotional states represented are anxiety, anger, pain, relaxation, boredom, fear and quiet happiness.
For Benjamin Salabay, designer at Lab-ah, this represented a real challenge: “ The difficulty in the representation of emotions is to find the format in which everyone can recognize themselves. Positive emotions require more subtlety in drawing technique, there was a lot of back and forth before finding the right format, but the first patient feedback is really satisfying. The design was meticulously worked on because nothing is left to chance in the calming spaces, in terms of design, colors… and we wanted to live up to what is offered. »
The final format is still under discussion because today a therapeutic mediation tool, it could be used independently by the patient to send a message to his environment when the ailments no longer allow him to verbalize his emotional state.
In terms of perspectives, other work is underway, around sound and music in particular.
• Learn more about the GHU Paris website. Read also on the Mental Health website: Experimenting with a calming space.
1682359533
#Emotion #cards #explore #translate #feelings