Mental Skill Building

Mental Skill Building

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This service is for adults and children in their late teens who suffer from mental illness and lack basic living skills, need connections to community resources, and require help in managing their psychiatric symptoms.

Our staff helps create a specialized treatment plan with goals specific to the client’s needs, emphasis on managing psychiatric symptoms, and establishing consistent medication management.

This service improves a client’s well-being by establishing a support network of safety, education, and empowering the client to increase the overall quality of life by managing and controlling symptoms. Our services include extensive collaboration with outside professionals and 24/7 crisis management.

Admission Criteria

Individuals qualifying for Mental Health Skill-building Services must demonstrate a clinical necessity for the service arising from a condition due to mental, behavioral, or emotional illness that results in significant functional impairments in major life activities. Services are provided to individuals who require individualized training to achieve or maintain stability and independence in the community.

Individuals age 21 and over shall meet all of the following criteria in order to be eligible to receive mental health skill-building services:

The individual shall have one of the following as a primary Axis I DSM diagnosis:
Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder as set out in the DSM
Major Depressive Disorder – Recurrent
Bipolar I; or Bipolar II
Any other Axis I mental health disorder that a physician has documented specific to the identified individual within the past year
The individual shall require individualized training in acquiring basic living skills such as symptom management; adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans; development and appropriate use of social skills and personal support system; personal hygiene; food preparation; or money management.
The individual shall have a prior history of a psychiatric hospitalization
The individual shall have had a prescription for antipsychotic, mood stabilizing, or antidepressant medications within the 12 months prior to the assessment date.

Individuals ages 16-20 shall meet all of the following criteria in order to be eligible to receive mental health skill-building services:

The individual shall be in an independent living situation or actively transitioning into an independent living situation.
The individual shall have one of the following as a primary, Axis I DSM diagnosis:
Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder as set out in the DSM
Major Depressive Disorder – Recurrent
Bipolar I; or Bipolar II
Any other Axis I mental health disorder that a physician has documented specific to the identified individual within the past year
The individual shall require individualized training in acquiring basic living skills such as symptom management; adherence to psychiatric and medication treatment plans; development and appropriate use of social skills and personal support system; personal hygiene; food preparation; or money management
The individual shall have a prior history of a psychiatric hospitalization
The individual shall have had a prescription for antipsychotic, mood stabilizing, or antidepressant medications within the 12 months prior to the assessment date

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