Behavioral Illness

CHAPTER 1
THE INTRODUCTION
Behavioral illness is the one of the most common type of disability in the Philippines according to National Statistics Office disability survey in 2000. This is highly prevalent among people living in poverty, people with HIV/AIDS, drug addiction or substance abuse and prisoners. Many people with behavioral health conditions experience severe stigma, discrimination and abuse; they encounter barriers to exercising their civil and political rights; they have limited access to educational program and healthcare facilities; and they are excluded from income-generating and employment opportunities. Since they are highly vulnerable it is crucial that people with mental health conditions are recognized and targeted for

However included in the figure are substance related disorders which constitute 18% of 27.5%. If substance related disorder is excluded, the prevalence rate is at 9% or 7.5 million Filipinos are suffering from some form of behavioral disorder.

1.2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The common belief for behavioral healthcare hospital is a prison for the psychotic people. There is a least chance of full recovery and discharge in most of the patients who are treated longer in a behavioral healthcare hospital and that is the reason for their overcrowding the facilities. The place for the persons who are suffering mentally should be more indulgent in order for them to recover.
In designing a behavioral healthcare hospital must be properly observe and plan because it can have a traumatic effect on the patients. In is important to study the cases of behavioral disorders treated in a hospital. The required spaces must be considerate in order for the patient to feel at home in the hospital.
This research aims to

PROJECT SCOPE, LIMITATIONS & DELIMITATIONS
The project scope of this study is to develop a behavioral health hospital and on how architecture can create an environment which is psychologically and spiritually rehabilitative.
Since the focus of the study is the environment for the patients who are suffering from behavioral disorder, related works on psychiatric hospitals and clinical studies on environmental factors that greatly affect them will be reviewed as well.
The proponent will conduct interviews with the key persons in some of the hospital who have a facilities of the said disorder to know the possibility of integrating patients with behavioral illness into society through vocational rehabilitation.
1.7. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Behavioral – the method in which someone manners oneself
Comprehensive - complete or entire
Healthcare - to maintain or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being
Hospital - an institution for the needy, aged, infirm, or young who has a disease
Illness - an unhealthy disorder of body or