California Code of Regulations › Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services › Division 1 - Department of Mental Health › Chapter 14 - Mental Health Services Act › Article 7 - Prevention and Early Intervention › Section 3701 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "Prevention
				  and Early Intervention regulations" means sections
				  3200.245 and
				  3200.246 of Article 2, sections
				  3510.010,
				  3560,
				  3560.010, and
				  3560.020 of Article 5, and Article
				  7.
(b) "Program" as used in the
				  Prevention and Early Intervention regulations means a stand-alone organized and
				  planned work, action or approach that evidence indicates is likely to bring about
				  positive mental health outcomes either for individuals and families with or at risk
				  of serious mental illness or for the mental health system.
(c) "Strategy" as used in the Prevention and Early
				  Intervention regulations means a planned and specified method within a Program
				  intended to achieve a defined goal.
(d)
				  "Mental illness" and "mental disorder" as used in the Prevention and Early
				  Intervention regulations means, a syndrome characterized by clinically significant
				  disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that
				  reflects a dysfunction in the psychological or biological processes underlying
				  mental functioning. Mental illness is usually associated with significant distress
				  or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. An expected or
				  culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a
				  loved one, is not a mental illness. Socially variant behavior (e.g. political,
				  religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and
				  society are not mental illness unless the variance or conflict results from a
				  dysfunction in the individual, as described above.
(e) "Serious mental illness," "serious mental
				  disorder" and "severe mental illness" as used in the Prevention and Early
				  Intervention regulations means, a mental illness that is severe in degree and
				  persistent in duration, which may cause behavioral functioning which interferes
				  substantially with the primary activities of daily living, and which may result in
				  an inability to maintain stable adjustment and independent functioning without
				  treatment, support, and rehabilitation for a long or indefinite period of time.
				  These mental illnesses include, but are not limited to, schizophrenia, bipolar
				  disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as major affective disorders or
				  other severely disabling mental disorders.
(f) The definition in subdivision (d) is
				  applicable to serious emotional disturbance for individuals under the age of 18,
				  other than a primary substance use disorder or developmental disorder, which results
				  in behavior inappropriate to the individual's age according to expected
				  developmental norms.
1. New section
					 filed 10-7-2015; operative 10-7-2015 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4(b)(3)
					 (Register 2015, No. 41).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						5846,
						Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections
						5600.3
						and
						5840,
						Welfare and Institutions Code.