Snoezelen

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A Snoezelen room for well-being
A child's favorite place in the Snoezelen room

Under Snoezelen ( ˈsnuːzələn ) - a fantasy creation compiled by Jan Hulsegge and Ad Verheul, two community service workers at the De Hartenberg Institute in the Netherlands, in 1978 from the two Dutch verbs "snuffelen" (for example: cuddle , sniff ) and "doezelen" ( doze ) - is understood to mean staying in a cozy, pleasantly warm room in which light effects can be viewed comfortably lying or sitting, surrounded by soft sounds and melodies. The carefully selected offer controls and arranges the stimuli, arouses interest, evokes memories and guides relationships. The Snoezelen should always create well-being. In the calm atmosphere, people are relieved of fears and they feel secure.

The Snoezelen serves to improve sensitive perception and at the same time to relax . The hotel's room are usually different light sources and projectors that produce various visual effects such as water columns, a color wheel, located on the ceiling slowly rotating mirror ball and a comfortable seat - and relaxation areas . The Snoezelen room can be flooded with fragrant scents. Images to dream are used in connection with selected relaxation music.

After the first experiences in the Netherlands, the "Snoezelen" was operated in Great Britain and Germany from the late 1980s. In the meantime, the idea of ​​this form of relaxation has spread to over thirty nations worldwide.

Contributions to international Snoezelen congresses of the International Snoezelen Association (ISNA), founded in 2002, show that Snoezelen can be used as a therapeutic medium for coping with psychological problems and compensating for stressful situations ( anorexia , stress , burnout ), for physiological diseases (such as in palliative medicine for increased pain states ), with emotional problems (such as depression and violence ) but also with attention disorders (accompanied by hyperactivity ), lack of concentration and motivation. While the Snoezelen focused on people with (severe) intellectual disabilities in the first few years , this intervention has since been implemented in kindergartens, schools, leisure and senior facilities, in clinics and hospices . With a view to the future population development and age structure, Krista Mertens at the Humboldt University in Berlin has developed special concepts for people with disabilities (especially dementia ) to improve the quality of life, which in addition to the new approaches to "promote learning “Are taught and implemented in advanced and advanced training courses in the Snoezelen room.

For an effective Snoezelen intervention, it is necessary that the content and methods are tailored to the needs of the target groups. Stages of development, clinical pictures, biographies and social environment as well as the current state of the client have an influence on the Snoezelen offer. The Snoezelen specialist must match the lighting effects, sounds and music, aromas, storage location, duration of the offer and content to the person being looked after in advance. In addition to permanently installed Snoezelen rooms, “Snoezelen wagons” are also in use, which, with the appropriate equipment, can be pushed to the bed of less mobile people, as can happen with brain injuries or acquired brain damage. The relaxation and support area for "Snoezelen with animals" also developed.

literature

  • Martin Buntrock: Effect of special relaxation music in the Snoezelen room. Diss. Humboldt University of Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-934091-34-4
  • Matthias Dalferth: Snoezelen - More quality of life in the nursing home. Bavarian Red Cross, Regensburg District Association 2003, ISBN 3-00-011711-3 ( Scientific support for the Snoezelen project in the BRK senior citizens' residential and nursing home in Regensburg. Final report)
  • Jan Hulsegge, Ad Verheul (illustrations), Hans V. Wagner (editor): Snoezelen - another world. (Original title: Snoezelen - een others wereld , translated by Otto Rick), 10th edition, Federal Association for Living Aid for People with Mental Disabilities, Marburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-8861-7091-3 .
  • Krista Mertens: Snoezelen - a new concept within the care of older people - with special consideration of dementia. In: praxis ergotherapie, volume 3, 15th year, pp. 145–148. V. modern learning, Dortmund 2002, ISSN  0932-9692 .
  • Friedrich Schwanecke: Snoezelen - possibilities and limits in different areas of application. Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe for people with intellectual disabilities, Marburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-88617-310-5
  • Bernd Reuschenbach, Anna Mallau: Snoezelen in dementia. Disco in the old people's home or useful therapeutic offer. In: Pflegezeitschrift , No. 58, pp. 304–307. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISSN  0945-1129 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mertens 2006, 429.
  2. ↑ Buntrock 2010, 83-88.
  3. ↑ Mertens / Stephan 2007, 247 f.
  4. ↑ Mertens / Stephan 2012, 28 f.
  5. ↑ Mertens / Stephan 2012, 28 f.

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