5 behavioral health design trends
January 06, 2026
Stephen Parker, behavioral health planner at Stantec, tells Healthcare Design about sensory-enabled architecture and trauma-informed strategies
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to share the trends that are getting their attention, and what they think about them.
Stephen Parker is an architect and mental and behavioral health professional leading projects around the globe. Here, Parker shares his thoughts on the evolution of behavioral health design using sensory-enabled architecture, expanded emergency psychiatric care options, and trauma-informed strategies.
