New Vision for Mental Health: An Ecological Paradigm

The vision that inspires this website (and associated wider project) has evolved and extended.

We propose an ecological paradigm, as set out in a pdf file that you can view and/or save from here.

It has the following Table of Contents:

• The New Vision project and website
  • Introduction
  • Why now?
  • A key question
• An Ecological Paradigm
  • Three layers and five themes
    • Layer 1: Practice
    • Layer 2: Community
    • Layer 3: Society
    • Theme 1: Emotion-Focused Care
      • The rational-technical approach
    • Theme 2: Collaborative Practice
      • Contextualisation
    • Layer 3: A Coherent System
      • A new type of mental health professional
      • Street triage, policing and beyond
    • Layer 4: A Wellbeing Society
      • Wellbeing factors
      • Gross Domestic Product as surrogate for ‘wellbeing’
      • Children and young people
      • Spiritual emergence or psychosis?
    • Layer 5: A Balanced Budget
• End note