Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part VI - Mental Health/Intellectual Disability/Autism Manual › Subpart C - Administration and Fiscal Management › Chapter 4200 - COUNTY BOARD AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 4200.4 - 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:
Act
-The Mental Health and Intellectual
						Disability Act of 1966 (50 P.S. §§
												4101-4704).
Administrator
-The county mental health
						and intellectual disability administrator appointed by the local
						authorities.
Board
-The county mental health and
						intellectual disability board appointed by the local authorities.
County
-A county or a first class
						city.
Department
-The Department of Human
						Services of the Commonwealth.
Facility
-A mental health establishment,
						hospital, clinic, institution, center, day care center or other organizational
						unit, or part thereof, which is devoted primarily to the diagnosis, treatment,
						care, rehabilitation or detention of individuals with a mental
						disability.
Intellectual disability
-Subaverage
						general intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental
						period and is associated with impairment of maturation, learning or social
						adjustment.
Local authorities
-The county
						commissioners of a county, or the city councils and the mayors of first class
						cities, or two or more of these acting in concert.
Mental disability
-A mental illness,
						mental impairment, intellectual disability, or mental deficiency, which so
						lessens the capacity of a person to use his customary self-control, judgment
						and discretion in the conduct of his affairs and social relations as to make it
						necessary or advisable for him to be under care as provided in the act. The
						term includes conditions and terms heretofore defined as "mental retardation,"
						"insanity," "unsoundness of mind," "lunacy," "mental disease," "mental
						disorder," "feebleminded," "moron," "idiot" and "imbecile." The term does not
						include senility, unless mental illness or intellectual disability is
						superimposed.
Nurse
-A person licensed by the State
						Board of Nursing to engage in the practice of professional nursing within the
						meaning of The Professional Nurse Law (63 P.S. §§
												211-225.5).
Physician
-A physician licensed to
						practice in this Commonwealth.
Program
-A mental health and intellectual
						disability program established by the local authorities and includes a complex
						of services providing a continuum of care in the community for the mentally
						disabled.
Psychiatrist
-A physician who by years of
						study, training and experience has achieved professional recognition and
						standing in the field of psychiatry.
Psychologist
-A person who by years of
						study, training and experience has achieved professional recognition and
						standing in the field of clinical psychology.
Secretary
-The Secretary of the
						Department.
Social worker
-A person who by years of
						study, training, and experience has achieved professional recognition and
						standing in the field of social work.
The provisions of this §
													4200.4 amended under sections
						  201(2) and (8) and 202 of the Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Act of
						  1966 (50 P.S. §§
														4201(2) and
						  (8) and
						  4202).