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It's Not About Us

Author: 
Todd Leader

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About the Book

It's Not About Us; The Secret to Transforming the Mental Health and Addiction System in Canada is 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, and looks at how that model actually prevents the transformation we need. This book presents 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.

Details
Format: 
Trade Paperback (e-book also available)
Published: 
October 14, 2016
Dimensions: 
274 pages, 6x9 inches (paperback)
Publisher: 
Cathydia Press
Found in: 
Non-Fiction
Language: 
English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title: 
978-0-9938173-3-5 (paperback); 978-0-9938173-2-8 (e-book)
eBook: 
eBook versions of this title are available in multiple formats (Kindle, Kobo, Nook, iBook, etc.) from online booksellers worldwide.

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$29.95

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From the Publisher:

It's Not About Us is a guide to improving the client experience with the mental health and addiction system across Canada.
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About the Author:

Todd Leader is a Registered Psychologist and Registered Social Worker who has spent the last 26 years leading service development and transformation, as well as health promotion, particularly in the areas of mental health, addictions, and primary health care.

Editorial Review:

“As a pharmacist, I see and hear the frustrations of mental health and addictions clients every day. The unique and innovative approach in this book could serve as a template, not only for this field, but for improving the delivery of many areas of health care in Canada.”
- Jack Davies, Pharmacist

“In my 32-year career as a registered nurse, I have not seen any approach that is as simple, innovative, and fundamentally important to the mental health and addiction field, as the ideas presented in It’s Not About Us. This is a must-read for all nurses.”
- Marguerite MacDonald

“Clinicians should not be afraid to adopt this model of service delivery as it will enhance not only their clients’ experience of the service, but enable them to deliver client-centered treatment in the manner for which they were trained.”.
- Dr. Andrew Ashley-Smith, Psychiatrist

“This piece of work should be a blueprint guide for health change leaders in Canada”
- Kevin Fraser, RSW, RCC, manager - mental health and addictions

"It's Not About Us is a breath of fresh-air that gives hope to this mental health advocate and consumer. If the system would fully adopt some of the ideas discussed in this book, lives will not only be transformed but saved. A must-read for anyone tired of talk but no real change."
- Sara Ramsay, mental health system consumer and advocate