Integrated Mental Health Care
NewTown University Hospital Center for Life Strategies (CLS) is an emotional hospital and residential therapeutic community that welcomes individuals and families who have adopted a number of survival and coping strategies that are no longer serving their highest good and make it difficult, if not impossible for them to thrive or get along with other people or groups in the rest of the world. Many of these people have been “diagnosed” and labeled by traditional behavioral health professionals as suffering from “borderline personality disorder (BPD)” or “severe emotional disorder (SED)”
The Center for Life Strategies has a fully functioning “Clubhouse” and is a member of the International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD.) See http://www.iccd.org.
The CLS partners with “group home” consultants to create the best overall climate for healing care. The following consultancies will be considered:
New Beginningz Inc., Group Home Consultants
http://www.grouphomehelp.com/index.htm
Treatment Coordination & Advocacy
http://www.treatmentcoordination.net/?gclid=CKGgzZfezYsCFRs9gAodd1eJBw
The Hospital will utilize such technologies as Nonviolent Communication, Compassionate Listening and others to model and suggest new ways to get one’s needs met; to thrive, not merely survive in the world. The purpose of the Emotional Hospital is to offer processes for emotional healing in an environment of acceptance, love, patience and compassion as people learn new and more rewarding skills for survival, coping and emotional intelligence.
The following is a short list of survival strategies that in my view do not serve the highest good:
Passive-aggressiveness
Socially manipulative behaviors
Chronic fatigue and sickness
Overmedication with legal and “illegal” remedies
Drug, alcohol, and substance” use issues
Low self-esteem
Extreme victim consciousness
Welfare and social dependency Issues
Extreme childhood and family of origin trauma
Effects of poverty
Effects of incarceration
Loss of dignity and liberty