The rise in interest in wellbeing, heightened during the COVID pandemic, challenged the way we think about what it means to be healthy. While many people in recent years have researched well-being as the intersection of physical and mental health, few have explored the role of architecture in spaces with these programs. Like any service profession, architects have a duty to contribute to the health and wellbeing of the users of these buildings. This thesis aims to question the typical building type of fitness and wellness centers and propose a more integrated architectural model, enhanced with elements of the natural environment which play a role in the user's quest for total wellbeing.The final proposal is sited at an all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland - the Holton-Arms School. / Master of Architecture / The rise in interest in wellbeing, heightened during the COVID pandemic, challenged the way we think about what it means to be healthy. While many people in recent years have researched well-being as the intersection of physical and mental health, few have explored the role of architecture in spaces with these programs. Like any service profession, architects have a duty to contribute to the health and wellbeing of the users of these buildings. This thesis aims to question the typical building type of fitness and wellness centers and propose a more integrated architectural model, enhanced with elements of the natural environment which play a role in the user's quest for total wellbeing.The final proposal is sited at an all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland - the Holton-Arms School.

This thesis project is describing a new object of municipal baths in a specific urban environment. It is a building of social and recreational character. The primary content is therefore not a sports pool with lanes, but pools and areas intended for relaxation. The building contains an entrance area, changing rooms, swimming pools, rest areas and service rooms. It also includes saunas, massage rooms, café and ancillary premises.

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Client outcome research focuses primarily on three specific aspects of therapy: therapist technique, client behaviors and therapeutic interaction. The term "therapeutic interaction" focuses on the relationship between the counselor and the client, and is often ignored in client outcome research. Counselor specific contributions to the therapeutic process are called therapist characteristics may be an innovative way to assess how counselors' impact clients' outcomes in counseling. For the purposes of this study administering the Five Factor Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle and the Outcome Questionnaire to master's level student counselors assessed therapist characteristics. The Outcome Questionnaire was administered to clients at a community-counseling clinic at two points and a delta score was calculated to create the variable "client outcome." In order to test the research hypotheses, 70 master's level counseling students completed both the Five Factor Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle and the Outcome Questionnaire. These scores were then matched with master's level counseling students' client delta scores, which created the dependent variable. The results of the multiple regression analysis indicated no statistically significant relationship; therefore the null hypotheses were accepted as the constructs student counselor wellness and client outcomes were not related. Results of the study were summarized and discussed, limitations of the study were explored and recommendations for future research were proposed.

Playing-related pain, discomfort, and injuries are significant health concerns for musicians. Most of these are classified as playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMDs), which are any physical symptoms that interfere with a musician’s ability to play their instrument at the level to which they are accustomed (Zaza et al., 1998). The prevalence of PRMDs for professional musicians can range from 62% to 93% (Kok et al., 2016). Researchers have found similar PRMD prevalence rates among tertiary music students at universities, colleges, and conservatories (Larsson et al., 1993; Stanek et al., 2017). Additionally, young musicians in primary and secondary school also experience PRMDs (Burkholder & Brandfonbrener, 2004; Lockwood, 1988; Ranelli et al., 2011). It seems that PRMDs may be a consequence of not only the way people make music, but also of how they learned and were taught to make music. Many performing arts medicine researchers recommend prevention education to combat PRMDs. Although studies examining stretching, warm-ups, yoga, and somatic education techniques have shown promising results, the majority of these prevention education research studies have focused on tertiary music students (Barton & Feinberg, 2008; López & Martínez, 2013; Salonen, 2018). As many tertiary music students report experiencing PRMDs even before arriving at school, waiting to teach prevention may be too late (Brandfonbrener, 2009; Foxman & Burgel, 2006). Additionally, the rate of PRMDs among young musicians demonstrates a need to determine how and when prevention education is implemented. As musicians of all ages continue to experience PRMDs, current teaching practices may not be adequate to help prevent PRMDs—in fact, the way music is taught may be contributing to their development. Efforts to understand how to incorporate prevention education into pedagogical practices from the very beginning of musical study are necessary. Body Mapping is a somatic education technique that was designed specifically for music teachers to educate musicians about their bodies. Utilizing the senses, movement, and attention, Body Mapping guides musicians to understand the size, structure, and function of the body in movement to help them achieve their musical intentions (Conable, 2000; Johnson, 2009). The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of Body Mapping-informed pedagogy as primary prevention on beginning string students’ body awareness and levels of pain and discomfort as measured by standard self-perception tools. In a quasi-experimental design, data collection occurred before and after a 12-week intervention period using the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire (CMDQ), the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness 2 (MAIA-2), and the Body Mapping Knowledge Inventory (BMKI). Participants (N = 68) were 6th grade beginning string students in the Western United States separated into an experimental group (n = 41) receiving Body Mapping instruction while learning their instrument, and a control group (n = 27) that learned their instrument only with traditional pedagogy. T-tests revealed a limited number of statistically significant results, but a closer examination of data also uncovered some interesting non-significant trends. Although there were no significant differences in pain and discomfort between groups on the CMDQ, the control group did have a more obvious upward trend of pain and discomfort between testing points. On the MAIA-2, the experimental group maintained their body awareness over the intervention period, whereas the control group had a significant loss of body awareness (p = .042). Additionally, the experimental group significantly increased their Body Mapping knowledge on the BMKI (p = .020). Finally, Spearman’s correlations revealed a significant direct relationship (𝜌 = .28, p = .019) between increased Body Mapping knowledge and higher body awareness on the BMKI and MAIA-2, respectively. The results of this study indicate that Body Mapping concepts can be learned from the beginning of study, although it is not clear what the implications are for long-term injury prevention. Further, the data suggest the continued examination of pedagogical practices. More research efforts are needed to understand the long-term effects of somatic education such as Body Mapping, and to determine quantitative data collection instruments appropriate to reveal subtle changes in pain, discomfort, and body awareness for this population.

Burnouts are the most common reason for sick-leave in Sweden and is affecting 77000 every year.There are countless ways of dealing with stress, all with different focus, benefits and setbacks.According to doctor and researcher Anders Hansen, creating lifestyle changes is the numberone way of preventing a burnout. This methodology has been a reoccurring approach, shared by many through my research, to change the over all lifestyle in a long term perspective, rather than introducing short term solutions. What I had concluded during my research is that a good way of achieving lifestyle changes isthrough reflection. A hypothesis that was later confirmed by industry professionals working with atherapy form named acceptance commitment therapy, ACT in short. They concluded that peoplehaving suffered a traumatic event often come to clarity, as they then reflect over what’s important in life in a long term perspective and that the purpose they tried to achieve was to offer this reflection in a preventive manner. The core principle of ACT is to find out what an individual values, and take actual concrete step towards those values. This therapy form has documented effect and established tools for reflecting.The setbacks with these tools today is that they operate in closed environments by industry professionals as well as in literature, since they require a lot of guidance and explanation. The goal of this project has been to take these tool and tailor them to a preventive space where people can make use of them before they have to seek professional care. I had identified that a hight risk user group are newly employed and engaged co-workers. This usergroup has little knowledge about the expectorations in their new line of occupation and has an elevated risk of experiencing high levels of stress and in some cases burnouts. As a mean to address stress at workplaces I have developed a system called bloom. It’s a system that works on the same principle as fire management training for corporations and aims to create an introduction to stress, practice preventive tools for handling stress as well as an action plan for what to do in case stress gets overwhelming. The bloom system contains two products for managing stress that exists as both physical as well as in an app format. The products are based around ACT thinking and aims to aid changes of lifestyle through the reflection element called weighted questions. Many companies has outsourced agreements with corporate wellness companies but insteadof contacting these companies when stress has already become a problem, the bloom system aims to work with stress management early and in a preventive way and gives the co-workers the powere of evidance based tools that they can use themself.

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