Support on the Aspire ARMS pathway
The Aspire ARMS (At Risk Mental State) pathway provides support for people aged 14 – 35, who are registered with a Leeds GP, and are having unusual and distressing experiences that have begun to interfere with their daily life.
These experiences may include feeling paranoid, holding beliefs that others do not share, or hearing and seeing things that others cannot. The intensity and duration of these experiences can vary and may not be constant.
These experiences can make everyday activities more challenging. For some people, this could impact work, school, university, maintaining personal care, managing relationships academic work, employment or socialising.
For more information about these types of experiences, visit the unusual experiences page.
Getting help as early as possible can help to reduce the impact of these experiences and may prevent the development more significant difficulties further down the line.
The aspire ARMS pathway aims to support people to develop skills in understanding and managing their unusual experiences, so that they can focus on what they really want from life.
We hope to help people get their lives back on track and move forward in whatever ways they consider most important and meaningful.
If you are offered support on the aspire At Risk Mental State pathway you will be allocated an ARMS practitioner who will be involved in coordinating your care whilst you are supported by aspire.
They will contact you as soon as you are accepted onto the pathway to invite you to attend a network meeting to discuss what support you can access on the ARMS pathway. A member of the aspire therapy team will also attend this meeting to explore therapeutic support with you.
People who are supported on the ARMS pathway are offered psychological interventions like talking therapy and creative therapies. Visit the Aspire Therapy Team.
Therapy on the ARMS pathway focuses on what is important to you and can help you to better understand your experiences, learn new strategies for managing your experiences and work towards overcoming barriers to achieving your goals.
It can which can help can decrease the risk of developing a more serious mental health problem and can improve well-being and quality of life.
People supported on the ARMS pathway are also offered access to recovery groups, please visit the Social Recovery in Aspire page, and activities, and practical support. We also offer family meetings and support for carers, please visit the Family and Carer Support from Aspire page.