A Built Environment with Architectural Parameters in Sustainability That Mitigates the Onset of PTSD in High Armed Conflict: Physiological, Cognitive, Psychoanalytic, And Social/Behavioral Stimuli to Induce Cognitive Processing for Self-Healing Item Type text; Electronic Thesis Authors Havelka, Heather Leigh Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 02/10/2021 22:02:04 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626719 A BUILT ENVIRONMENT WITH ARCHITECTURAL PARAMETERS IN SUSTAINABILITY THAT MITIGATES THE ONSET OF PTSD IN HIGH ARMED CONFLICT: PHYSIOLOGICAL, COGNITIVE, PSYCHOANALYTIC, AND SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL STIMULI TO INDUCE COGNITIVE PROCESSING FOR SELF-HEALING by Heather Leigh Havelka Copyright © Heather Leigh Havelka 2018 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE WITH A MAJOR IN ARCHITECTURE in the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2018 II STATEMENT BY AUTHOR The thesis titled A Built Environment with Architectural Parameters in Sustainability That Mitigates the Onset of PTSD in High Armed Conflict: Physiological, Cognitive, Psychoanalytic, And Social/Behavioral Stimuli to Induce Cognitive Processing for Self- Healing prepared by Heather Leigh Havelka has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a master’s degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this thesis are allowable without special permission, provided that an accurate acknowledgement of the source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the copyright holder. SIGNED: Heather Leigh Havelka APPROVAL BY THESIS DIRECTOR This thesis has been approved on the date shown below: Nader V. Chalfoun, PhD December 6, 2017 Distinguished Director, Professor, and Head Chair of M.S. in Architecture: Design and Energy Conservation III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to those who believed in my dreams and making a difference through the combination of science, rehabilitation, and architecture. Thanks to all who are serving and have served to protect the United States of America. God Bless. “It is will and determination that makes things happen.” - Heather Havelka IV DEDICATION There is immense compassion for those with PTSD, not only through research and the understanding of that research, but on a personal level. As one with PTSD, I would like to give light to the disability and show that it is something that can be accepted in society. Equally, with having a military family, and having gone to a military university I have an emense amount of relations with the military and have deep compassion for members that get PTSD after serving for the right to have our freedom. It is not the person who is broken, it is the system. This thesis is for veterans with PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is induced by an ordeal or set of ordeals that cause physical and mental harm. The experience of traumatic event(s) either to self or witnessing life-threatening events done to another leaves an imprint on the brain. The disorder can happen to anyone, but the onset is most common with those who have experienced combat or sexual assault. V ACCREDITATIONS Nader Chalfoun, Ph.D.: Director of The House Energy Doctor Program; Chair for the Master of Science in Architecture program; Professor of Architecture and Environmental Sciences at The University of Arizona, College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA); Coordinator of the Environmental Education Ph.D. Minor at CAPLA; Faculty of the Arid Lands Resource Sciences GIDP and Global Change Ph.D. Minor at CAPLA. Omar Youssef, Ph.D.: Professor at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA), USGBC Arizona ADVANCE Ambassador, and Research Associate at the Institute on Place and Wellbeing (IPW) at The University of Arizona. Colby Moeller: Professor at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA), specializes in the principles, integration and application of environmental control systems. Editors: Leslie Dupont, PhD: Coordinator of the Graduate Writing Institute at the University of Arizona, publisher of Writing Cornerstones: Paragraphs in Context and Writing Keystones: Essays and Research, and chair member of the College of Humanities Website Governance Work Group. Dr. Kathleen Cannon: A master’s in journalism and mass communications from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in organization development from the University of St. Thomas. Her dissertation topic was “The Perfect Storm: Why Women Leaders Opt Out.” VI TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... VII ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................... VIII KEY CONCEPT QUOTATIONS ...................................................................................... X PREFACE and THESIS SUMMARY .............................................................................. XI CHAPTER 1: Introduction ............................................................................................ XXI CHAPTER 2: Impact of PTSD Symptoms on Heart and Vital Organs .................... XXXIII CHAPTER 3: Compounded Stressors of PTSD Through Misdiagnosis and Chronic Pain ............................................................................................................................... XLV CHAPTER 4: Understanding PTSD Mental and Cognitive Processing ............................ LI CHAPTER 5: Elements of a Resilient Life ................................................................... LVII CHAPTER 6: Neuroscience and the Build Environment ............................................ LXVI CHAPTER 7: Regulating Systems and PTSD .............................................................. LXX CHAPTER 8: The Role of Light-Play in PTSD Management ................................. LXXIX CHAPTER 9: Cost Effectiveness of Choice and Treatment of PTSD ........................ XCIII CHAPTER 10: Supportive External Built Environment and PTSD ............................ XCVI CHAPTER 11: The OPOB Rationale and Design for Treatment of PTSD ................. CVIII APPENDIX A: History of PTSD .............................................................................. CXXIV APPENDIX B: Caps-5 Checklist and Sample and Severity Scale ........................ CXXXIX APPENDIX C: PTSD Statistics..................................... .......................................... CXLIV APPENDIX D: Rulan Material Information ............................................................ CXLVII REFERENCES........................................................................................................ CXLVIII VII LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Interior transportable encasement– OPOB-TE. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017...................................................................................................................... CX Figure 2. OPOB-C Drafting Design. Opaque PTSD Offense Base Center. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017 ..................................................................................... CXIII Figure 3. OPOB-TE Drafting Design. Opaque PTSD Offense Base Transportable Encasement. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017. ................................................. CXIII Figure 4. Biophilia: How is it valid? Non-visual connection with nature. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017 .................................................................................................. CXIX Figure 5. Biophilia: How is it valid? Biomorphic forms and patterns. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017. .................................................................................................. CXX Figure 6. Biophilia: How is it valid? Mystery patterns. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017................................................................................................................... CXX Figure 7. Biophilia: How is it valid? Biomorphic forms and quality prospect condition. Source: Heather Havelka, 2017. ...................................................................... CXXI Figure 8. OPOB-TE. Stylized image of OPOB by Heather Havelka, 2017 ............ CXXXII Figure 9. OPOB-TE. Stylized image of OPOB progression by Heather Havelka, 2017.............................................................................................................. CXXXII Figure 10. OPOB-TE. Stylized image progression of OPOB by Heather Havelka, 2017............................................................................................................ CXXXIII VIII ABSTRACT According to Frederick Law Olmsted: If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such