Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services
Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) are mental health services that enable the client to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills that have been impaired by the symptoms of their mental illness.
ARMHS also enables a member to retain stability and functioning if the member is at risk of losing significant functionality or being admitted to a more restrictive service setting without ARMHS.
ARMHS instructs, assists, and supports a member in areas such as:
● Navigating medical, dental, mental health, PCA, and substance use services and needs.
● Handling basic life tasks and activities of daily living like maintaining personal hygiene, cleaning, cooking, etc.
● Finding and maintaining stable housing.
● Accessing financial supports and managing a budget.
● Feeling safe going into the community, getting food/goods, and handling transportation.
● Developing healthy relationships and communication skills.
● Overcoming barriers to pursuing education or work.
● Overcoming any issues that are impaired by your mental health symptoms.
Typical ARMHS Session
In a typical session, an ARMHS worker will arrive at the client’s home/community location, and spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours working with the client to achieve their ITP goals. During this time ARMHS will coach the client to do things like:
● Identifying and understanding mental health symptoms and the impairments caused by them.
● Learning and practicing skills to address the impairments caused by mental health symptoms.
● Applying those skills in real life situations to achieve personal goals.
● Assessing what worked and what didn’t work to do better next time
ARMHS vs Therapy
Therapy:
● Traditional therapy focuses on talking about and processing your experiences, thoughts, and feelings to help you change and improve your quality of life.
● This generally occurs in an office or by Telehealth.
● Sessions are generally limited to 1 time a week for 60 minutes total.
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ARMHS:
● ARMHS focuses on teaching you to resolve immediate problems to help you change and improve your quality of life.
● This generally occurs in your home, community or by Telehealth.
● Sessions can occur multiple times a week for a total of up to 5 hours a week.
How clients qualify for ARMHS
● Be 18 years or older.
● Have a primary diagnosis of a mental illness as identified in a Diagnostic Assessment.
● Have a completed Level Of Care assessment.
● Have at least 3 domains of identified mental health impairment as identified in a Functional Assessment.
● Have measurable goals and objectives that will be achieved in a specific timeframe as identified in an Individual Treatment Plan.
Insurances that pay for ARMHS
ARMHS is paid for exclusively by the State of Minnesota’s Medical Assistance Plan (MA), and Prepaid Medical Assistance Plans (PMAP’s). This includes:
● Straight Medical Assistance (MA)
● PMAP Blue Cross Blue Shield (Blue Plus)
● PMAP Health Partners
● PMAP Hennepin Health
● PMAP Itasca Medical Care
● PMAP Medica
● PMAP Prime West
● PMAP South Country Health Alliance
● PMAP UCare
● PMAP United Health Care
