Dr Allie Slemon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Shivinder Dhari: “When Should Inpatient Psychiatric Care Include Access to the Outdoors, Despite Elopement or Other Risks?”

Architect Stefan Lundin joins Ethics Talk to discuss how the design of mental health facilities contributes to safety and to patient healing.

This article canvasses extant literature on values, evidence, and standards for inpatient psychiatry units’ design.

Dr Jennifer T. McIntosh joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Mona Shattell: “How Should Suicide Prevention and Healing Be Expressed as Goals of Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design?”

Dr Matthew L. Edwards joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Nathaniel P. Morris: “How Inpatient Psychiatric Units Can Be Both Safe and Therapeutic.”

Iatrogenic harms of so-called “zero-risk” approaches must be balanced against promoting patients’ goals of care.

Dr Carrie Tamarelli joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Angela Cao and Dr Rebecca Grossman-Kahn: “Should Patients’ Boredom in Locked Inpatient Psychiatric Units Be Considered Iatrogenic Harm?”

This commentary examines prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restrictions imposed by designs of inpatient psychiatric units’ structures and spaces.

Inpatient psychiatric units should be therapeutic environments that support dignity and recovery.

Dr Brendan D. Kelly joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Róisín Plunkett: “Should Dignity Preservation Be a Precondition for Safety and a Design Priority for Healing in Inpatient Psychiatry Spaces?”