About Exclusion Link

The medicalisation of mental health services is not conducive to creating an environnment and culture within which service users can find foundation blocks for recovery and life long improvement. Exclusion Link aims to take an established threaputic community model for personality disorders and set it in a ‘Care Farming’ context where the opportunities for health and well being can be addressed in more fundamental ways.

The incidence of emotional and behavioural difficulties (Personality Disorders) is significant and this market is not well catered for in statutory agencies, with services fragmented and staff often poorly equipped to manage the demands imposed on them. Exclusion Link will fill these gaps, improve the quality of training and delivery of public services and result in cost savings to statutory agencies by providing collaborative commissioning opportunities. Our Green Care project will be innovative and unique within the UK as it combines the therapeutic benefit of farming and horticulture with proven NHS clinical programmes.

The Medicalisation of Health Services

Many mental health problems, particularly those of a lifelong emotional difficulties are not well catered for by mainstream mental health services, in the NHS or private sector. This particularly applies to the sort of problems technically diagnosed with 'personality disorder'. These problems are usually caused by very adverse circumstances in someone's early life and lead to people who cannot trust each other, find difficulty in all relationships and have problems with their mood and general ability to cope with life.

Exclusion Link hopes to offer a radical alternative to mainstream psychiatric care, by adding ingredients of GreenCare and contact with nature to well established intensive psychotherapeutic treatment methods, and to train staff to be able to use these techniques in normal mainstream settings.

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