Skills training and development is training provided to an eligible client, the LAR, or primary caregiver on behalf of an eligible client. The training addresses:
- Serious mental illness and symptoms related problems that interfere with the client’s functioning and living, working, and learning environment
- Provides opportunities for the client to acquire and improve skills needed to function as appropriately and independently as possible in the community
Skills training and supportive interventions focus on the improvement of communication skills, appropriate interpersonal behaviors, and other skills necessary for independent living or, when age-appropriate, functioning effectively with family, peers, and teachers. Skills training and development may include:
- Skills related to personal hygiene
- Pro-Social skills
- Assertiveness skills
- Anger management skills
- Stress reduction techniques
- Communication skills
- Transportation utilization
- Money management
- The development of natural supports
- Life skills
- Parenting skills
- Access to needed services in the community (e.g., medical care, substance abuse services, legal services, and living room accommodations)
- Social skills (e.g., communicating one’s needs to strangers and making appropriate choices for the use of leisure times)
Skills training and development services consist of increasing the LAR’s or primary caregiver’s understanding of an ability to respond to the client’s needs identified in the uniform assessment or documented in the treatment plan. Clients receiving skills training and development are not eligible to simultaneously receive psychosocial rehabilitative services and both services should not be simultaneously listed in the client’s treatment.
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