Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 24 - Mental Health › Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers › Chapter 54 - Glossary

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Agency Provider - the overall agency
			 provider/entity. Agency provider does not refer to an individual employee or
			 service location.
B. Basic bedroom
			 furnishings - bed frame, mattress (at least 4 inches thick), box springs (if
			 applicable to bed frame type), chest of drawers or dresser, lamp, nightstand,
			 two (2) sets of bed linens.
C.
			 Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional (CPSSP) - Certified Peer Support
			 Specialist Professionals provide non-clinical activities with a rehabilitation
			 and resiliency focus that allow people receiving mental health services and
			 substance use services and their family members the opportunity to build skills
			 for coping with and managing psychiatric symptoms, substance use issues and
			 challenges associated with various disabilities while directing their own
			 recovery. A Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional is a person with
			 significant life-altering experience, and also referred to as lived experience
			 peer support competencies-based training and testing.
A Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional - Adult
				(CPSSP-A) is an adult diagnosed with a metal illness and/or substance use who
				can demonstrate their own efforts at self-directed recovery and expertise
				including knowledge approaches to support others in recovery. This designation
				prepares people who are successfully engaged in recovery from mental health
				and/or substance use disorder to help other adults in his/her recovery
				journey.
A Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional -
				Parent/Caregiver (CPSSP-P) is a biological parent, adoptive parent, or relative
				caregiver with permanent legal custody who is raising or has raised a
				child/youth with an emotional, social, behavioral, and/or substance use
				disability; and, whose child/youth has received services from a children/youth
				mental health provider. The Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional-
				Parent/Caregiver provides support and guidance to parent(s)/caregiver(s) in
				navigating the child/youth serving systems and advocating with them to help
				their child/youth.
A Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional - Youth/Young
				Adult (CPSSP-Y) is a person between the ages of eighteen - twenty-six (18-26)
				with lived experience with a behavioral health diagnosis who can demonstrate
				his or her own efforts in self-directed recovery. A behavioral health diagnosis
				can include mental health and/or substance use. This designation prepares
				people who are successfully engaged in recovery from mental health and/or
				substance use to help others in their recovery journey.
A Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional - Recovery
				(CPSSP-R) is an adult diagnosed with a substance use disorder who provides Peer
				Support Services for people in recovery from substance use.
D. Chemical restraint - a medication used to
			 control behavior or to restrict the person's freedom of movement and is not
			 standard treatment of the person's medical or psychiatric condition.
E. Community-based - services and supports
			 are located in or strongly linked to the community, in the least restrictive
			 setting supportive of a person's safety and treatment needs. Services and
			 supports should be delivered responsibly and seamlessly where the person lives,
			 works, learns and interacts.
F.
			 Controlled Setting - Components for a "controlled" setting for IDD Services is
			 defined as an agency with a lease or agreement with a property owner and the
			 property owner maintains control of the physical setting/environment.
G. Cultural Competency - the acceptance and
			 respect for difference, continuing self-assessment regarding culture, attention
			 to dynamics of difference, ongoing development of cultural knowledge and
			 resources and flexibility within service models to work towards better meeting
			 the needs of minority populations.
H. Days - calendar days.
I. De-escalation - includes verbal and
			 non-verbal communication skills aimed at reducing another person's agitation
			 and aggression. De-escalation reduces the intensity of the conflict or a
			 potential violent situation.
J.
			 Director - a person with overall responsibility for a service, service area(s)
			 (such as Community Services Director, Director of Community Support Services,
			 Director of ID/DD Waiver Support Coordination, Service Director for Adult and
			 Children's Partial Hospitalization, Day Treatment, Therapeutic Foster Care) or
			 multiple services provided at/from a single location. This person must have at
			 least a Master's degree in mental health or intellectual/developmental
			 disabilities, or a related field and either (1) a professional license or (2) a
			 DMH Credential as a Mental Health Therapist or Intellectual/Developmental
			 Disabilities Therapist (as appropriate to the service and population being
			 served). A registered nurse may be employed as the Director for DMH/H Agency
			 Providers that only serve as agency providers of In-Home Nursing Respite
			 Services, In-Home Respite Services and Community Support Services.
K. DMH Credentials - a generic term referring
			 to any or all levels of DMH professional certification/licensure; examples
			 include (not an exhaustive list): DMH Certified Mental Health Therapist (CMHT),
			 DMH Certified Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Therapist (CIDDT),
			 and DMH Certified Addictions Therapist (CAT).
L. Grievance - a written statement made by a
			 person receiving services alleging a violation of rights or policy.
M. Immediate family members - spouse, parent,
			 stepparent, sibling, child, or stepchild.
N. Legal representative - the legal guardian
			 or conservator for a person as determined in a court of competent
			 jurisdiction.
O. Mechanical
			 restraint - the use of a mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or
			 adjacent to the person's body that he or she cannot easily remove that
			 restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one's body.
P. Medical Screening - components of medical
			 screening include: patient's personal information, doctor's information (name,
			 etc.), exam information - blood pressure, pulse, height, weight, current
			 diagnosis, current medications, statement of freedom from communicable disease,
			 physical and dietary limitations and allergies. Must be signed by a licensed
			 physician/nurse practitioner.
Q.
			 Peer - a self-identified person (or family member of a person) who has received
			 mental health or substance use services.
R. Peer Support Service - Peer Support
			 Services are non-clinical activities with a rehabilitation and
			 resiliency/recovery focus that allow people receiving mental health services
			 and substance use services and their family members the opportunity to build
			 skills for coping with and managing psychiatric symptoms, substance use issues
			 and challenges associated with various disabilities while directing their own
			 recovery. Natural resources are utilized to enhance community living skills,
			 community integration, rehabilitation, resiliency and recovery. Peer Support is
			 a helping relationship between peers and/or family member(s) that is directed
			 toward the achievement of specific goals defined by the person. Peer Support
			 Services are provided by a Certified Peer Support Specialist
			 Professional.
S. Peer Support
			 Specialist Professional Supervisor - a person credentialed according to the
			 standards and guidelines determined by DMH. Prior to, or immediately upon
			 acceptance in a Peer Support Specialist Professional Supervisory position, this
			 person is required to receive basic Peer Support Specialist training
			 specifically developed for supervision within the Peer Support Specialist
			 Program, as provided by DMH.
T.
			 Person-Centered Planning - a best practice approach to planning for people who
			 require life-long supports and services. Person-Centered Planning discovers and
			 acts on what is important to a person. Person-Centered Thinking ©
			 principles are used to gather information with and from participants of the
			 person's choosing. The person and his/her team develop individually tailored
			 outcomes that are molded into activities to assist people in having meaningful
			 days and in doing what they choose to do.
U. Person - Centered, Recovery Oriented
			 System of Care - identification of the supports needed for individual recovery
			 and resilience. Individualized and person-centered means that the combination
			 of services and supports should respond to a person's needs, and should work
			 with the strengths unique to each person's natural and community supports.
			 Services and supports should be designed to help the person served identify and
			 achieve his/her own recovery goals. The public mental health system must also
			 recognize, respect and accommodate differences relating to
			 culture/ethnicity/race, religion, gender identity and sexual orientation.
			 However, an individualized/person-centered process must recognize the
			 importance of the family and fact that supports and services impact the entire
			 family.
V. Person-Centered
			 Thinking - underlies and guides respectful listening which leads to actions,
			 resulting in people who: have positive control over their life; are recognized
			 and valued for their contributions (current and potential) to their
			 communities; and, are supported in a web of relationships, both natural and
			 paid, within their communities. © TLC-PCP.
W. Physical escort - the temporary holding of
			 the hand, wrist, arm, shoulder, or back for the purpose of inducing a person
			 who is acting out to walk to a safe location.
X. Physical intervention - procedures used in
			 conditions where the safety of the person with challenging behaviors, or others
			 is in imminent danger. An evidence-based physical intervention training focuses
			 on de-escalation skills and strategies first, with physical intervention used
			 only as last resort.
Y. Physical
			 restraint - any manual method, physical or mechanical device, or equipment that
			 immobilized or reduces the ability of a person to move his or her arms, legs,
			 or head freely when used as a restriction to manage a person's
			 behavior.
Z. Professional License -
			 examples include Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)/Provisional Licensed
			 Professional Counselor (P-LPC), Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Master Social
			 Worker, Licensed Certified Social Worker, Licensed Marriage and Family
			 Therapist (LMFT), and Medical Doctor.
AA. Psychiatric Services - includes
			 interventions of a medical nature provided by medically trained personnel to
			 address medical conditions related to the person's mental illness or emotional
			 disturbance. Medical services include medication evaluation and monitoring,
			 nurse assessment, and medication injection.
BB. Recovery - a process of change through
			 which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life
			 and strive to reach their full potential.
CC. Recovery-oriented services - services
			 that are dedicated to and organized around actively helping people served to
			 achieve full personal recovery in their real life and service
			 environment.
DD. Relapse - a state
			 of resuming any substance use, practices or behaviors detrimental to the
			 individual's quality of life, or a deterioration of a previous level of
			 improvement.
EE. Results-oriented -
			 services and supports that lead to improved outcomes for the person served.
			 People have as much responsibility and self-sufficiency as possible, taking
			 into consideration their age, goals and personal circumstances.
FF. Seclusion - a behavior control technique
			 involving locked isolation. Such term does not include a time-out.
GG. Service location - a DMH certified
			 physical site (i.e. premises, building or facility) of which approved services
			 and programs are provided by the provider to people with SMI, SED, SUD, and/or
			 IDD that houses:
* Pertinent files for all staff and populations served,
* A site-based Safety Review Log of which the agency provider
				must conduct monthly, and
* Prominently posted OCS informational poster with instructions
				on filing a grievance with DMH.
HH. Supervisor - a person with predominantly
			 supervisory and administrative responsibilities on-site in the day-to-day
			 provision of services for such areas as Work Activity Services, Day
			 Services-Adult, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services, Day Support Services,
			 etc. This person must have at least a Bachelor's degree in mental health,
			 intellectual/developmental disabilities, or a related field, and be under the
			 supervision of a person with a Master's degree in a mental health,
			 intellectual/developmental disabilities, or a related field.
II. Time-Out - a behavior management
			 technique which removes a person from social reinforcement into a non-locked
			 room, for the purpose of calming. The time-out procedure must be part of an
			 approved treatment service.
Section
				41-4-7
				of the Mississippi Code, 1972, as Amended