PSYCHO-SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF SHELTER OCCUPANCY

摘要

This project, supported by the Office of Civil Defense, developed a psycho¬logical model of protective shelters and a methodology for identifying and describ¬ing the psychological stresses and supports existing during enshelterment. The admission wards of selected psychiatric hospitals were used as an analogue to the shelter confinement with subjects rigorously selected to insure valid extrapolation of results to the projected shelter occupancy population. Emphasis was placed upon studying the psychological rather than the physical environment.