Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health
ARMHS
Enhancing Mental Well-being and Independence
Adult rehabilitative mental health services (ARMHS) is a range of services that helps an individual develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills.
Whether the person is returning home from a State hospital or working to improve their skills at independent living, ARMHS meets each person with mental illness where they are at with services tailored to them.
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Basic living & social skills:
ARMHS providers help individuals build skills in areas of life essential for every day, independent living, when symptoms of their mental health have decreased functioning abilities. ARMHS helps people improve their skills in:
- Interpersonal communications
- Using community resources
- Budgeting, shopping and healthy lifestyles
- Mental illness symptom management
- Household management
- Employment-related skills
Basic living and social skills may be provided individually or in a group setting
Functional Assessment
Through building rapport with each client, an understanding is gained about how symptoms of mental health impact each individual uniquely in many areas of their life. This gained understanding helps shape the treatment planning process.
Individual Treatment Plan
A client centered approach is essential to the development goals and the small steps needed to achieve goals. Treatment planning may involve other members of the individuals’ family and community.
Community intervention
Community interventions mean working with an agency, institution, employer, landlord or the person’s family to allow the person to function more independently.
Medication education
Instruction may be provided to the individual receiving ARMHS services, their family or significant others in how to maintain a person’s prescription medication regimen. A physician, pharmacist, registered nurse or physician’s assistant provides this service.
Certified peer specialist services
Certified peer specialists can help people receiving services by using a non-clinical approach that helps the person discover his or her strengths and develop unique recovery goals. The peer specialist models wellness, personal responsibility, self-advocacy and hopefulness through appropriate sharing of his or her story.
Transition to community living services
Transition services help ease the transition from a higher level of care, such as a regional treatment center, Community hospital or Intensive residential treatment program.
