Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part VII - Mental Health Manual › Subpart D - Nonresidential Agencies/Facilities/Services › Chapter 5221 - MENTAL HEALTH INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 5221.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Case
-A consumer and members of his
						family being served, if the consumer is a child.
Child
-A person 17 years of age or
						younger or 21 years of age or younger if enrolled in special education.
Consumer
-A person who receives intensive
						case management services. The term does not include a family member who
						receives services.
County administrator
-The MH/MR
						administrator who has jurisdiction in the geographic area.
County plan
-A county plan and estimate
						of expenditures which describes how case management services will be made
						available, including the anticipated expenditures for the services. The plan is
						prepared and updated annually by the county administrator and the county MH/MR
						board and submitted for approval to the Department of Public Welfare, Office of
						Mental Health in accordance with this chapter.
Department
-The Department of Public
						Welfare of the Commonwealth.
Emotional disturbance
-A child's
						inability to function in the home, school or community and so the child
						requires multiple medical, social, educational or other supports.
Enrolled provider
-A county MH/MR program
						or private agency specifically identified as a provider of intensive case
						management in the county human services plan which has been approved by the
						Department and enrolled by the Office of Mental Health and the Office of
						Medical Assistance Programs for claims processing.
Family
-Parents, as defined in this
						section, siblings and other relatives living in the home.
Global assessment of functioning scale
-A
						procedure for measuring the overall severity of psychiatric disturbance which
						is contained in DSM-III-R (
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
						Disorders
, Third Edition, Revised), published by the American
						Psychiatric Association, 1987, Washington, D.C., and subsequent
						editions.
Intensive case manager
-A staff person
						designated to provide intensive case management under §
											5221.21 (relating to
						organizational requirements).
Intensive case management
-The services
						described in this chapter which are designed to assist targeted adults with
						serious and persistent mental illness and targeted children with a serious
						mental illness or emotional disorder and their families, to gain access to
						needed resources, such as medical, social, educational and other
						services.
MH/MR
-Mental Health/Mental
						Retardation.
Mental health direct care
						experience
-Working directly with adult or children mental health
						service consumers, providing services involving casework or case management,
						individual or group therapy, crisis intervention, early intervention,
						vocational training, residential care or social rehabilitation in a mental
						health facility or in a facility or program that is publicly funded to provide
						services to mental health consumers, or in a nursing home, a juvenile justice
						agency, or a children and adolescent service agency.
Mental illness
-The existence of a mental
						disability subject to DSM III-R diagnosis, excluding mental retardation or
						substance abuse as the primary diagnosis, rendered by a licensed physician or
						psychologist.
Parent
-The biological or adoptive mother
						or father or the legal guardian of the child or a responsible relative or
						caretaker with whom the child regularly resides.
Supervisor
-A person designated to
						supervise intensive case managers under § 5221.21.
Targeted population
-Adults with serious
						and persistent mental illness and children with serious mental illness or
						emotional disorders who are deemed eligible to receive intensive case
						management as identified by the county administrator under this
						chapter.