General Info

Diagnostic assessments: Psychosocial assessments summarize current stressors, client history and functioning. A diagnosis and treatment recommendations are made. Psychological assessments: Conducted by a licensed psychologist involving the use of standardized measures for the purposes of psychological evaluation. Parental Capacity Evaluations are available upon request. Individual psychotherapy: Services to reduce the impact of mental health conditions on the individual’s daily functioning, improve coping skills and provide resources to support the client in recovery from the mental health condition. Family psychotherapy: Counseling with family members to improve family functioning and relationships through communication and problem solving skills. Play Therapy: Play is the child's language, toys are the child's words! Play therapy is a structured approach that uses curative powers inherent in play in many ways. Play helps children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings. Assessments of childhood EBD. Group therapy: Utilizing the experience of group processing and discussion to aid the individual in reaching recovery goals.  Anger Management - Adults uses evidence-based methods to help individuals learn to manage anger effectively and gain self-control over thoughts and actions. This 12 week Cognitive/Behavioral group process is both educational and therapeutic in nature, and supports real and lasting change.  Anger Management - Adolescents uses same materials as adult group but tailored for 13 - 18 years old.  Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) is a cognitive behavioral, skills training approach to assist people in the management of emotional intensity and the development of coping skills. STEPPS consists of 20 - 1½ hour group therapy sessions and 1 Reinforcement Team session.  STAIRWAYS: The next step in group treatment of borderline personality disorder. Stairways is the one-year, twice monthly group program.  Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is a skills group focusing on consumer choice in treatment planning. There is a strong emphasis on helping people set and pursue personal goals and helping them put strategies into action in their everyday lives. IMR groups are held Mondays at 1:00 and Thursdays at 9:00 and are open to all ARMHS program participants. Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS): State certified Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services are community-based, skill-development services designed to help persons with Serious Mental Illness reach their recovery goals and experience improvement in their overall life functioning and life satisfaction. Individualized skills training may include:  Coping with the symptoms of one's mental illness  Managing and preventing a crisis  Preventing relapse and hospitalization  Gaining access to community resources  Communicating with others  Managing and maintaining one's home  Budgeting and shopping  Cooking and nutrition  Finding and maintaining employment  Medication Education We are certified to provide ARMHS in Hubbard, Becker, Cass and Wadena Counties. Training and Education Services: We welcome opportunities to speak, train or educate various groups about mental health issues and impact on work and other environments. Contact us for further information.