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BASIC SKILLS TRAINING

Basic Skills Training (BST) services are rehabilitative mental health interventions designed to reduce cognitive and behavioral impairments and restore recipients to their highest level of functioning with the guidance of a basic skills provider.
BST services are provided to recipients facing challenges with cognitive and behavioral skills functioning. BST services help recipients acquire constructive cognitive and behavioral skills through positive reinforcement, modeling, operant conditioning and other training techniques.
BST teaches recipients a variety of life skills, formulated off an individualized treatment plan. These treatments plans are created with the client utilizing a medical treatment model in collaboration with licensed professionals. BST is a community based service that teaches a variety of life skills in a location which is most suitable to attain treatment goals. BST services may include the following interventions:
  • Basic living and self-care skills: Recipients learn how to manage their daily lives, recipients learn safe and appropriate behaviors;
  • Social skills: Recipients learn how to identify and comprehend the physical, emotional and interpersonal needs of others—recipients learn how to interact with others;
  • Communication skills: Recipients learn how to communicate their physical, emotional and interpersonal needs to others—recipients learn how to listen and identify the needs of others;
  • Parental training: Parental training teaches the recipient’s parent(s) and/or legal guardian(s) BST techniques. The objective is to help parents continue the recipient’s RMH care in home and community based settings. Parental training must target the restoration of recipient’s cognitive and behavioral mental health impairment needs. Parental training must be recipient centered;
  • Organization and time management skills: Recipients learn how to manage and prioritize their daily activities; and/or f. Transitional living skills: Recipients learn necessary skills to begin partial- independent and/or fully independent lives.
  • Transitional Living Skills

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