Section 8-2 - Outpatient Services (a) Outpatient services are non-residential diagnostic and treatment services that are provided to persons and their families.
(b) Outpatient services include: - (i) Clinical Assessments: Therapeutic contacts with the client, relatives, and significant others to the extent necessary to complete an accurate psychosocial evaluation and DSM-III-R diagnosis from the most current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, including psychological testing, as indicated, for the purpose of writing an assessment and developing the treatment plan.
- (ii) Individual Therapy: Therapeutic contact with the enrolled client for the purpose of implementing the treatment plan.
- (iii) Family/Couples Therapy: Therapeutic contact with the enrolled client and one or more persons, who are considered by the client to be family/partner, for the purpose of resolving problems identified in the treatment plan.
- (iv) Group Therapy: Therapeutic contact with two or more unrelated clients by one or more therapists for the purpose of implementing each clients treatment plan.
- (v) Medication Management: Therapeutic contact with a client by medical personnel (licensed physician, licensed physicians assistant, or licensed registered nurse as appropriate) for the purpose of prescribing or monitoring medication, including education of the client regarding appropriate use and side effects.
- (vi) Intensive Outpatient: Intensive Outpatient treatment is structured, group counseling as an alternative to inpatient and residential care, for chemically dependent persons who accept that they have a substance abuse problem, and who are willing and capable of maintaining abstinence during treatment.
- (A) The program shall be designed to provide a comprehensive, intensive, and structured series of treatment services requiring at least forty (40) hours within a one-month period of time, followed by group sessions for a minimum of twelve weeks after completion of the structured program. Continuing care services shall be made available for further follow up.
- (B) The program shall include integration services and participation in self-help groups.
- (C) Each Intensive Outpatient Treatment program shall establish written admission and discharge criteria.
- (D) Each Intensive Outpatient Treatment program shall establish and utilize a schedule of group activities with written descriptions of the content of the group themes (except self-help groups).