Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 130 CMR - DIVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › Title 130 CMR 411.000 - Psychologist Services › Section 411.402 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
The following terms used in
				130 CMR
				411.000 have the meanings given in
				130
				CMR 411.402, unless the context clearly
				requires a different meaning.
Case Consultation
- intervention,
				including scheduled audio-only telephonic, audio-video, or in person meetings,
				for behavioral and medical management purposes on a member's behalf with
				agencies, employers, or institutions which may include the preparation of
				reports of the member's psychiatric status, history, treatment, or progress
				(other than for legal purposes) for other physicians, agencies, or insurance
				carriers.
Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths
				(CANS)
- a tool that provides a standardized way to organize
				information gathered during behavioral-health clinical assessments. A
				Massachusetts version of the tool has been developed and is intended to be used
				as a treatment decision support tool for behavioral-health providers serving
				MassHealth members younger than 21 years old.
Couple Therapy
- psychotherapeutic
				services provided to a couple whose primary complaint is the disruption of
				their marriage, family, or relationship.
Diagnostic Services Evaluation
- the
				examination and determination by interview techniques of a member's physical,
				psychological, social, economic, educational, and vocational capabilities and
				disabilities for the purposes of developing a diagnostic formulation and
				designing a treatment plan.
Family Consultation
- a scheduled
				meeting of at least one-half hour with one or more of the parents, legal
				guardian, or foster parents of a child who is being treated by the provider
				when the parents, legal guardian, or foster parents are not clients of the
				provider.
Family Therapy
- the psychotherapeutic
				treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously in the same
				session.
Group Therapy
- the application of
				psychotherapeutic or counseling techniques to a group of persons, most of whom
				are not related by blood, marriage, or legal guardianship.
Individual Therapy
- psychotherapeutic
				services provided to an individual.
Intelligence Assessment
- a battery of
				tests to measure intelligence and cognitive ability, listed in the
Mental Measurement Yearbook
, or that conforms to the
Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests
of the
				American Psychological Association, such as a full Wechsler Adult Intelligence
				Scale, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, or Stanford-Binet Intelligence
				Scales.
Neuropsychological Assessment
- a
				battery of performance-based assessments provided by an eligible provider that
				assesses cognitive functioning, in order to examine the cognitive consequences
				of brain damage, brain disease, physical, and mental illness, and other
				conditions that may impact cognitive functioning. A neuropsychological
				assessment may include tests of intelligence, attention and concentration,
				learning and memory, processing speed, visual spatial perception, language
				skills, visual motor and fine motor skills, sensory perception, executive
				functioning, and emotional functioning.
Personality Assessment
- a battery of
				techniques that yield an evaluation of personality, using at least two
				personality tests that are listed in the
Mental Measurement
				Yearbook
, or that conform to the
Standards for Educational and
				Psychological Tests
of the American Psychological Association, unless
				clinically contraindicated
Psychological Assessment
- the use of
				standardized test instruments and procedures to evaluate aspects of a member's
				functioning. Psychological assessment includes intelligence,
				neuropsychological, and personality assessments. Test instruments used for
				psychological assessment must be published, valid, and in general use as
				defined by listing in the
Mental Measurement Yearbook
, or by
				conformity to the
Standards for Educational and Psychological
				Testing
of the American Psychological Association.
Psychotherapy
- the use of
				psychological and interpersonal theories and related practice methodologies to
				assess, interpret and modify conscious and unconscious processes of
				behavior.
Telehealth
- the use of synchronous or
				asynchronous audio, video, electronic media or other telecommunications
				technology, including, but not limited to:
(1) interactive audio-video
			 technology;
(2) remote patient
			 monitoring devices;
(3) audio-only
			 telephone; and
(4) online adaptive
			 interviews, for the purpose of evaluating, diagnosing, consulting, prescribing,
			 treating or monitoring of a patient's physical health, oral health, mental
			 health or substance use disorder condition.
Treatment Service
- a service related
				to diminishing the distress and symptoms of mental health or substance use
				disorder, as defined by the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
				Disorders
including, but not limited to, individual, couple, family,
				and group psychotherapy.