Code of Maine Rules › 14 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › 472 - OFFICE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES › Chapter 2 - HOMEBASED FAMILY SERVICES PROGRAM STANDARDS › Section 472-2-I - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A. Approved Staff. Approved staff are those
				staff who may deliver homebased family mental health services as defined in
				Section IV. Personnel below.
B.
				Bureau of Children with Special Needs. The Bureau of Children with Special
				Needs is an administrative unit of the Maine Department of Mental Health and
				Mental Retardation pursuant to 34-B M.R.S.A., Section6204.
C. Collateral Contacts. Collateral contacts
				are face-to-face contacts on behalf of participating family members to gather
				information or to discuss the case with other professionals, caregivers, or
				others (including other family members) not included in the service plan as
				treatment recipients, for the purpose of improving the coordination of service
				to a family by different service providers, to achieve both a continuity of
				care, and the most appropriate mix of services.
D. Counseling Services. Counseling services
				engage individuals, family members, and entire families as appropriate in
				problem solving discussions to promote positive orientation, relief of excess
				stress, and growth toward more integrated and independent levels of functioning
				of the family. Services are delivered through planned interaction involving the
				use of physiological, psychological, ecological, and sociological evaluation
				and interventive concepts, techniques, and processes. These services will be
				focused on the special development and emotional needs and problems of the
				child.
E. Discharge Plan. A
				discharge plan is a written plan outlining the criteria and processes by which
				discharge will occur. Discharge plans shall be included in the individualized
				service plan for each participating family member.
F. Evaluation. Evaluation is an assessment of
				an individual's needs, which is based in part on the result of at face-to-face
				meeting with the individual, which includes a delineation of an individual's
				family-oriented needs, and which includes medical. and social history, and is
				prepared by an approved staff member.
G. Homebased Family Services. Homebased
				family services are short-term, time-limited, crisis-oriented family counseling
				services and psychotherapy, provided by a team of qualified personnel, in a
				family's home or other appropriate setting, for the purpose of preventing the
				removal of one or more children from the home, or to promote reunification of
				the family when a child, once removed from the family, is returned to the
				family. Homebased family services help families improve their ability to find,
				select, and use appropriate community supports.
H. Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is the
				utilization by legally qualified personnel of psychological and interpersonal
				theories and related practice methodologies to assess, interpret or modify
				conscious and unconscious processes of behavior. The therapy process may
				include:
(1) Examination of ongoing adaptive
				and maladaptive behavior/relationship patterns and contributing
				dynamics.
(2) The reorganizations
				of elements in such a way that they take on new meaning and provide for the
				conditions to reach new solutions.