Mental health rehabilitative services are defined as providing assistance in maintaining or improving functioning and may be considered rehabilitative when necessary to help a client achieve a rehabilitation goal as defined in the treatment plan. Mental health rehabilitative services may be provided to a client with a serious mental illness as defined in the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Mental health
rehabilitative services are age-appropriate, individualized, and designed to ameliorate functional impairments that negatively affect any of the following:
- Community Integration
- Community Tenure
- Behaviors resulting from serious mental illness (SMI) or severe emotional disturbance (SED) that interfere with a client’s ability to remain in the community as a fully integrated and functioning member of that community
Mental health rehabilitative services may include:
- Medication management
- Psychosocial rehabilitative services
- Skills training and development
- Crisis intervention services
