Article: Let's talk about solutions: organizational leaders can be role models for promoting recovery-based conversations.(TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION)

Have you ever noticed how most conversations begin between behavioral health professionals and people receiving services? From our experience, the conversation usually begins by identifying the presenting problem and goes downhill from there, becoming more and more immersed in layers of the problem. By the time the conversation is over, both the person and the professional are exhausted, sometimes overwhelmed, and have little energy left to find a creative solution. If you think about it, people don't come to our programs to wallow in their problems. They come for help in finding solutions. Yet we seem to spend most of our time talking about the problems.

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