the vision

Our vision is of a society that values mental and emotional health by investing a fairer share of the health budget in a coherent system that promotes wellbeing.

New Vision for Mental Health: An Ecological Paradigm

Here you can view a pdf file that sets out the vision.

Feedback is welcomed and can be emailed to richard@newvisionformentalhealth.com

The pdf file’s 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