A Bunker Garden: Mindfulness-Based Landscape Design to Restore Physicians from Burnout

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dc.contributor.authorPhilen, Melissaen
dc.contributor.committeechairMiller, Patrick A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberIshida, Akien
dc.contributor.committeememberBohannon, C. L.en
dc.contributor.departmentLandscape Architectureen
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-04T08:00:16Zen
dc.date.available2017-11-04T08:00:16Zen
dc.date.issued2017-11-03en
dc.description.abstractLandscape architects design healing gardens at healthcare facilities to support patients, visitors, caregivers, and staff. Many acknowledge that medical staff regularly visit healing gardens to escape work-related stress (Marcus and Sachs, 2014). Rarely, however, are healing gardens on medical campuses designed specifically to support physicians' well-being. There is a void in healing garden design theory. Reports on the prevalence of physician burnout, warn of a widespread crisis and dismal reality within the medical community (T. D. Shanafelt et al., 2015). Researchers pronounce an urgent need for evidence-based interventions, which address individual contributing factors to burnout (Christina Maslach, Jackson, and Leiter, 1986). By investigating the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, an evidence-based therapy, clinically proven to cultivate emotional healing, for physicians suffering burnout, this research reveals how a therapeutic garden could meld mindfulness-based practices with environmental theory; healing garden design precedents; and healthcare design typologies. Finally, mindfulness-based landscape design guidelines describe how a private, restorative, healing garden could help maintain physicians' well-being and rehabilitate physicians experiencing burnout due to emotional exhaustion within the workplace.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Landscape Architectureen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:12729en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/79971en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjecthealing gardenen
dc.subjecttherapeutic landscapeen
dc.subjectrestorationen
dc.subjectnatureen
dc.subjecthealthcareen
dc.subjectphysiciansen
dc.subjectstressen
dc.subjectburnouten
dc.subjectmindfulnessen
dc.subjectMindfulness-Based Stress Reductionen
dc.titleA Bunker Garden: Mindfulness-Based Landscape Design to Restore Physicians from Burnouten
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineLandscape Architectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Landscape Architectureen

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