Section 9-2 - 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 Assessment: Therapeutic contacts with the client, relatives, and significant others to the extent necessary to complete an accurate evaluation and DSM-III-R diagnosis, 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) Case Management: Case management means case review, setting of treatment goals, design of treatment plan, coordination of the necessary components of the plan, monitoring of the treatment, and retention of responsibility for the clients treatment, performed by qualified staff of the community mental health center or clinic with the objective of assuming an integrated system of care for the client.
- (v) Medication Management/Monitoring: 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) Group Therapy: Therapeutic contact with two or more unrelated clients by one or more mental health professionals or counselors for the purpose of implementing each clients treatment plan.
- (vii) Day Treatment: Therapeutic contact with two or more clients by one or more therapists or counselors for the purpose of providing a preplanned and structured program of group treatment activities which may include skill training, education about illness and medications, group counseling and problem solving, and similar treatment.