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It's not about us : the secret to transforming the mental health and addiction system in Canada / Todd Leader ; foreword by Dr. Peter Vaughan.

by Leader, Todd.

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Cathydia Press Inc., 2016.

362.20971 L434i

Mental health services -- Canada.

Substance abuse -- Treatment -- Canada.

9780993817335 (pbk.)

274 p. ; 23 cm.

Issued also in electronic format.

Includes bibliographical references.

A guide to improving the client experience with the mental health and addiction system across Canada. It examines the traditional and current pathology-oriented medical model within which all of our services are built. The ways in which that model prevents the transformation we need if we want to really change our system. A new way to think about what it means to be client-centered, not only at an individual level, but also at the level of system design and operation. Based on compelling principles and a real success story - a program in Nova Scotia that transformed its way of providing service, according to a new way of defining and understanding what it means to be client-centered. The book includes a foreword by Dr. Peter Vaughan, deputy minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness. In Canada, many have tried to improve services. They have instinctively called for more money and more therapists and psychiatrists, or have focused on improving clinical skills of staff. Unfortunately, that simply perpetuates more of the same problematic approach, one that has repeatedly failed to address the concerns of the clients and the public. The one fundamental thing that is required: We need to change the perspective used to design all components of the system. We need to replace our traditional model that is designed from an expert and management-focused viewpoint, and start to look at the system the way clients and the public see and experience it. If you or a loved one have been affected by addiction and mental health issues, and have tried to or wanted to advocate for change in the system, this book will help you know how to do that. If you work in the mental health and addiction system in Canada, this book will help guide you through a more fundamental change than we have seen in many decades. Todd Leader is a psychologist and a social worker who has spent the last 26 years leading health service development and transformation, as well as health promotion, particularly in the areas of mental health, addictions, and primary health care. He has also been teaching in the Faculty of Science at Saint Mary's University for the same 26 years.

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