Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 048 - Health, Department of › Sub-Agency 0018 - Community Program - Mental Health and Substance Abuse Program › Chapter 1 - GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND INFORMATION › Section 1-4 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
As used in these standards, the term or phrase:
(a) "Accessible" means flexibility in
				scheduling hours, to the extent reasonable, to meet special needs of clients
				for appointment times.
(b)
				"Administrator" means the Administrator of the Division of Behavioral Health of
				the Department of Health.
(c)
				"Advanced degree" means an academic degree at the masters or doctoral level
				granted by an accredited college or university.
(d) "Authorized peer reviewers" means staff
				of a program certified under these Standards who, by arrangement of the
				Division, are authorized to participate in the monitoring process for another
				certified program.
(e) "Client"
				means any person or family unit that is receiving mental health or substance
				abuse evaluation or treatment services. This term does not include persons who
				have not been enrolled or who have been formally discharged from the program;
				nor does it include a recipient of substance abuse prevention services, or a
				recipient of substance abuse or mental health education services.
(f) "Client identifying information" means
				information by which the identity of a client can be determined. The term does
				not include a client identifying number assigned by a program.
(g) "Clinical assessment" means a written
				evaluation describing a clients status, consisting of, at minimum: a
				description of the presenting problems, a summary of the history of the
				presenting problems and prior treatment, relevant family and social data,
				medical data including significant physical problems and medications being
				used, a diagnostic summary which gives the therapists or counselors analysis
				and interpretation, and a diagnosis or diagnostic impression.
(h) "Clubhouse" means a sheltered
				pre-vocational service in which seriously mentally ill persons learn and
				practice prevocational skills in order to prepare them for either supported
				employment provided by the mental health program or for referral to another
				agency which offers sheltered employment, work crews, or enclaves. A clubhouse
				is operated by the client members in a setting apart from the mental health
				program and clients as a group are responsible for running the program with
				coaching from staff as needed. Members determine and assign to themselves work
				tasks such as cleaning, meal preparation, telephone answering, and other work
				training activities which foster skill development in social and work behaviors
				appropriate to eventual employment in the community.
(i) "Continuing care" means time-limited
				clinical services intended to solidify or enhance the gains made in mental
				health or substance abuse treatment.
(j) "Director" means the Director of the
				Department of Health.
(k)
				"Discharge summary" means an organized statement, in writing, prepared upon
				each clients discharge, which summarizes the services provided, discharge
				status, and the actual date of discharge.
(l) "Division" means the Division of
				Behavioral Health of the Department of Health.
(m) "Executive Director" means the director
				of a mental health or substance abuse program who is hired in this capacity by
				the governing body.
(n) "Governing
				body "means the board of directors of a private nonprofit corporation or a
				community board or a public agency, as defined in
				W.S.
				35-1-613(a)(i).
(o) "Human relations discipline" means a
				field of academic study which deals with knowledge and skill development in
				clinical counseling. Such fields of academic study may include, but are not
				limited to: social work, psychology, nursing, counseling, and family or
				addictions counseling.
(p) "Human
				relations therapist or counselor" means a person with an advanced degree from
				an academic program which deals with knowledge and skill development in
				clinical counseling. Such programs may include, but are not limited to:
				Clinical social work, psychology, family counseling, psychiatric nursing,
				counselor education, and addictions counseling.
(q) "Inpatient services" means
				medically-based, 24-hour treatment services provided by a hospital, by a
				facility licensed as a hospital, or in a suitably equipped medical setting.
				These services are provided to severely chemically addicted persons or
				psychiatrically impaired persons who require 24-hour medical supervision for
				physical and/or psychological complications in conjunction with an intensive
				treatment regimen.
(r) "Integration
				services" means the coordination of all group sessions of an intensive
				outpatient treatment program, facilitation of attendance at substance abuse
				self-help group meetings by clients enrolled in an intensive outpatient
				treatment program, and other services as needed.
(s) "Job coaching" means a full range of
				flexible job support services designed individually for each client to assist
				that client in maintaining his or her job in the community. Job coaching
				includes, but is not limited to: locating a job suitable to a clients interests
				and capabilities, on-going work with an employer to accept and understand the
				client, assisting a client to meet social and work behaviors acceptable in the
				job setting, providing or assisting with transportation and coordinating with a
				clients therapist to provide integrated assistance for a clients problems with
				medications, stress, and symptoms of mental illness which may interfere with
				maintaining the job.
(t) "Legally
				responsible other" means a person or agency authorized by a court or recognized
				by law to act on behalf of a client or a former client.
(u) "Minor" means a person as defined by W.S.
				W.S. W.S.
				14-1-101.
(v) "MIS" means the management information
				system used by the Division to collect uniform client information.
(w) "Operating policies" means a set of
				written directives related to the day-to-day management of the
				program.
(x) "Presenting problem"
				means the description of those behaviors and symptoms which cause the client to
				seek or be referred for services.
(y) "Prevention evaluation" means methods,
				any one or all of, which may be undertaken to measure success in achieving
				specified objectives.
(i) Process evaluation
				is assessment that describes the characteristics of an operational, ongoing
				prevention program at one point in time. Process evaluation includes a
				description of the target population, a description of the services delivered,
				a description of resources used by the program, and the experiences of the
				participants.
(ii) Outcome
				evaluation is assessment that includes measuring the effects of the program on
				the participants. Outcome evaluation specifies changes in participants
				attitudes, knowledge, behavior, and attempts to determine the degree to which
				the program has met its own goals and attempts to measure the generalized
				effects of alcohol and other drug abuse prevention efforts in the
				community.