Basic Living and Social Skills
ARMHS Basic Living and Social Skills are activities that restore a client’s skills essential for managing his or her illness, treatment, and the requirements of everyday independent living. Basic living and social skills may be provided to maintain a recipient’s functioning if the recipient is likely to significantly regress or is at significant risk to lose independent living. These skills need to be restored to prevent recipients from requiring inpatient or residential placement or to live independently in the community. These skills include, but are not limited to:
- Communicating opinions, thoughts and feelings, or key information with others
- Feeling confident in different social roles and settings
- Communicating about, or when in a stressful situation
- Discovering and using community resources to get needs met
- Getting outside help to deal with a difficult situation
- Preventing relapse
- Budgeting and shopping
- Developing a healthy lifestyle
- Learning to cook and eat a healthy diet
- Learning to get around the community
- Monitoring use and effectiveness of medications
- Managing the symptoms of mental illness
- Managing a household
- Finding and retaining a job
- Planning for employment
- Pursuing education
- Re-entering community living after treatment
The above services may be provided on a one-to-one basis in the client’s home or another community setting or in groups. If you wish to learn more, please give us a call today at 612-367-4417/320-259-1369 for a discussion.