New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 37F - PARTIAL CARE SERVICES STANDARDS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 10:37F-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Active treatment" means a process initiated at the point of
				  intake for a partial care program and consists of the assessment, treatment,
				  psychiatric rehabilitation and discharge planning phases of mental health
				  services. Active treatment includes an integrated, comprehensive, and
				  complementary schedule of treatment services for the purposes of maximizing a
				  consumer's independence and community living skills to promote community
				  integration, achieving valued roles and reducing unnecessary
				  hospitalizations.
"Advanced practice nurse" means an individual certified as an
				  advanced practice nurse by the New Jersey State Board of Nursing.
"Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner" means an
				  individual who has fulfilled all the eligibility requirements and passed a
				  comprehensive, standardized written examination as defined by the Certification
				  Commission for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
"Clinician" means a mental health professional possessing a
				  Master's or Doctoral degree from an accredited university in a field such as
				  psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing or rehabilitation
				  counseling, including, but not limited to, a licensed professional counselor.
				  In addition to the degree, the applicable training must be completed including
				  the appropriate residency (fellowship), internship or student placement
				  required by the professional standards of the respective discipline as well as
				  the applicable state license. A clinician may also have the credentials to be a
				  qualified addictions staff person.
"Community Mental Health Associate" means a Community Mental
				  Health Associate as defined by the Certification Board, Inc., 1200 Tices Lane,
				  East Brunswick, NJ.
"Direct care staff" means those personnel whose primary
				  function is face-to-face interaction with the consumer providing the
				  therapeutic contact necessary to achieve the consumer's treatment goals.
"Division" means the Division of Mental Health and Addiction
				  Services in the Department of Human Services.
"Educational services" means a formal educational course of
				  study leading to a degree, certificate or graduation from an accredited
				  institution or program and may include basic educational courses, special
				  educational courses, General Education Diploma (G.E.D.), and pre-college
				  preparation.
"Individualized recovery plan" (IRP) means a consumer
				  directed, individualized treatment plan, based upon the comprehensive
				  assessment, developed by the consumer in collaboration with family members,
				  significant others and partial care staff that identifies clinical needs,
				  current status and specific goals and objectives. The IRP identifies specific
				  interventions, measurable outcomes and is revised on a regular basis to reflect
				  the individual's current status and achievement of goals.
"Interdisciplinary treatment team (IDTT)" means a team of
				  individuals consisting of a psychiatrist and/or an advanced practice nurse,
				  clinician, rehabilitation and other counselor(s), consumer, family member with
				  consent, direct partial care staff, R.N. and others involved with meeting the
				  consumer's treatment needs.
"Licensed professional counselor" means an individual
				  licensed as a professional counselor as defined by Professional Counselor
				  Examiners Committee of the New Jersey State Board of Marriage and Family
				  Therapy Examiners.
"Licensed associate counselor" means an individual licensed
				  as an associate professional counselor as defined by Professional Counselor
				  Examiners Committee of the New Jersey State Board of Marriage and Family
				  Therapy Examiners.
"Mental health services worker" means an individual who
				  possesses a bachelor's degree or associate's degree in psychosocial
				  rehabilitation or mental health services, or related life or work experience in
				  mental health, such as assuming leadership roles during participation in mental
				  health services or mental health consumer initiatives.
"Off-site interventions" means planned mental health
				  programming provided during hours of partial care at a location other than that
				  of the program site in order to assist the individual to apply and/or practice
				  critical community skills learned in the PC.
" Partial care (PC)" means an individualized,
				  outcome-oriented mental health service, which provides a comprehensive,
				  structured, non-residential, interdisciplinary treatment and psychiatric
				  rehabilitation program in a community setting to assist consumers who have
				  serious mental illness in increasing or maximizing independence and community
				  living skills and enhancing the quality of their lives. Partial care services
				  are offered to an individual age 18 or older with a primary psychiatric
				  disorder that is accompanied by an impaired ability to perform living,
				  learning, working or social roles. Partial care services support consumer
				  stabilization and community integration and are alternatives to more intensive
				  acute interventions. Partial care services provide active treatment and
				  psychiatric rehabilitation for consumers who do not require inpatient
				  hospitalization but require support and structured programming.
"Pre-vocational services" means interventions, strategies and
				  activities within the context of a partial care program that assist individuals
				  to acquire general work behaviors, attitudes and skills needed to take on the
				  role of worker and in other life domains, such as: responding to criticism,
				  decision making, negotiating for needs, dealing with interpersonal issues,
				  managing psychiatric symptoms and adherence to prescribed medication
				  directions/schedules. Examples of interventions not considered pre-vocational
				  include technical occupational skills training, specific college preparation
				  not incidental to general community integration skills, and student education,
				  including preparation of school-assigned class work or homework, and
				  individualized job development.
"Programs of assertive community treatment (PACT)" means
				  mental health rehabilitative services which are delivered in a self-contained
				  treatment program provided by a service delivery team and managed by a
				  qualified program director, that merge treatment, rehabilitation, and support
				  services which are individualized and tailored to the unique needs and choices
				  of the individual receiving the services.
"Provider agency (PA)" means a public or private organization
				  which provides partial care services to adults with serious mental illness, as
				  set forth in this chapter.
"Psychotherapy notes" means as defined in
				  45
				  CFR 164.501.
"Registered nurse (RN)" means a registered professional nurse
				  licensed by the New Jersey Board of Nursing.
"Rehabilitation counselor" means an individual licensed by
				  the Professional Counselor Examiners Committee of the New Jersey State Board of
				  Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners (Licensed Rehabilitation Counselor or
				  LRC), certified as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) by the
				  Certification in Rehabilitation Counseling Board and/or possessing the
				  education, training and experience sufficient to sit for either
				  credential.
"Skill development" means acquiring the knowledge, attitudes
				  and specific behaviors that lead to the mastery of the identified critical
				  competency and its use when and where it is needed for valued community role
				  functioning.
"Social worker" means an individual defined by the New Jersey
				  Board of Social Work Examiners as either a Certified Social Worker (CSW),
				  Licensed Social Worker (LSW), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
"Special minimum wage certificate" means a certificate issued
				  to a provider by the U.S. Department of Labor pursuant to 29 CFR § 525,
				  which permits a worker with a disability to be paid at a rate below the rate
				  that would otherwise be required by statute.
"Therapeutic subcontract work activity" means production,
				  assembly and/or packing/collating tasks for which individuals with disabilities
				  performing these tasks are paid less than minimum wage, and pursuant to 29 CFR
				  § 525, a "special minimum wage certificate" has been issued to the
				  organization/program, by the U.S. Department of Labor.
"Therapeutic token economies" mean learning reinforcement
				  strategies which are medically necessary, such as those which promote the
				  consumer's progress in learning critical skills. Non-therapeutic token economy
				  activities, such as those used for the recruitment of beneficiaries, are not
				  medically necessary and therefore not therapeutic and are prohibited. Token
				  economy activities, if provided, like other medically necessary plan of care
				  activities, shall be implemented in accordance with an individual's plan of
				  care.
"Valued role" means an individually chosen adult role,
				  desired by individuals and respected by society, such as worker, professional,
				  employee, volunteer, student, spouse/partner, parent, homemaker or any other
				  normal adult role.
"Vocational services" mean those interventions, strategies
				  and activities that assist individuals to acquire skills to enter a specific
				  occupation and take on the role of colleague (that is, a member of a
				  profession) and/or assist the individual to directly enter the workforce and
				  take on the role of an employee, working as a member of an occupational group
				  for pay with a specific employer.