“…Ward climate can be seen as a multifactorial construct including the material, social, and emotional conditions of a given ward and the interaction between these factors (Moos, 1989;Tonkin, 2015). Ward climate is found to play a role in therapeutic outcomes like drop out-, release-, and re-admission rates (Moos, Shelton, & Petty, 1973), patient satisfaction (Bressington, Stewart, Beer, & MacInnes, 2011;Middelboe, Schjùdt, Byrsting, & Gjerris, 2001;Nesset, Rossberg, & Almvik, 2009;Rossberg & Friis, 2004), motivation for treatment (van der Helm, Beunk, Stams, & van der Laan, 2014), treatment engagement and therapeutic alliance (Long, Anagnostakis, Fox, Silaule, Somers, West, & Webster, 2011).…”