The main aim of this paper is to assess on how HealthStar is providing ARMHS to individuals with mental illness. The mental health department at HealthStar is responsible in providing ARMHS services. The department currently has a director of mental health service, an ARMHS/CTSS treatment director, four mental health Practitioners and three masters level social work intern students and a part-time LICSW supervisor.
ARMHS program provides one-on-one services to adults with a diagnosable mental illness who are experiencing difficulties in their daily functioning. Sherry, the director of mental health services at HealthStar explained that the common impairments with ARMHS recipients include: difficulty with activities of daily living, social …show more content…
Eligibility for MA is income-based, generally low-income and disabled individuals. Therefore, ARMHS participants are largely disadvantaged economically and experience the numerous difficulties inflicted by poverty (Novotny, 2011). The client must also be experiencing impairment in at least three areas of the 13 important functioning provided by the state as functional assessment, (the 13 functioning have been listed down at Functional Assessment subtopic at page 8 of this paper), which is assessed at their intake with a mental health professional (DHS, 2015).
The social work principles of service, social justice, human dignity and worth of the person, and the importance of human relationship are central to ARMHS program. HealthStar embodies these values in providing ARMHS by putting clients in charge of their own goals and pace for services (NASW, 2008). The theoretical stance from which ARMHS is practiced includes biopsychosocial assessment, and strength-based approaches, make ARMHS program a sensible approach of rehabilitation to individuals with mental …show more content…
The total score of these six dimensions determines the individuals LOCUS score. This total score corresponds with a specific level of functioning determines the treatment plan (Novotny, 2011). At HealthStar LOCUS is conducted and determined by the mental health
ARMHS program provides one-on-one services to adults with a diagnosable mental illness who are experiencing difficulties in their daily functioning. Sherry, the director of mental health services at HealthStar explained that the common impairments with ARMHS recipients include: difficulty with activities of daily living, social …show more content…
Eligibility for MA is income-based, generally low-income and disabled individuals. Therefore, ARMHS participants are largely disadvantaged economically and experience the numerous difficulties inflicted by poverty (Novotny, 2011). The client must also be experiencing impairment in at least three areas of the 13 important functioning provided by the state as functional assessment, (the 13 functioning have been listed down at Functional Assessment subtopic at page 8 of this paper), which is assessed at their intake with a mental health professional (DHS, 2015).
The social work principles of service, social justice, human dignity and worth of the person, and the importance of human relationship are central to ARMHS program. HealthStar embodies these values in providing ARMHS by putting clients in charge of their own goals and pace for services (NASW, 2008). The theoretical stance from which ARMHS is practiced includes biopsychosocial assessment, and strength-based approaches, make ARMHS program a sensible approach of rehabilitation to individuals with mental …show more content…
The total score of these six dimensions determines the individuals LOCUS score. This total score corresponds with a specific level of functioning determines the treatment plan (Novotny, 2011). At HealthStar LOCUS is conducted and determined by the mental health