Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-330 - Definitions
(a) "Administrator"
means a person employed by a secure residential treatment facility who is
responsible for the overall administration of the facility.
(b) "Basement" means each area with a floor
level more than 30 inches below ground level on all four sides.
(c) "Clinical director" means a person who is
employed by the secure residential treatment facility, who is responsible for
the overall treatment program, and who is approved by the Kansas behavioral
sciences regulatory board, Kansas board of nursing, or Kansas board of healing
arts to diagnose and treat mental and behavioral disorders.
(d) "Corporal punishment" means an activity
directed toward modifying a youth's behavior by means of adverse physical
contact, including spanking with the hand or an implement, slapping, swatting,
pulling hair, or any similar activity.
(e) "Department" means the Kansas department
of health and environment.
(f)
"Discipline" means the ongoing process of helping youth develop inner control
so that they can manage their own behavior in a socially approved manner.
(g) "Individual plan of care"
means a written, goal-oriented treatment plan to enable a youth to function in
a less restrictive environment, including the planned programs, therapies, and
activities designed to move the individual to a level of functioning consistent
with living in a community setting.
(h) "Involuntary seclusion" means the removal
of a youth from other youths to a separate locked room or quarters.
(i) "License" means a document issued by the
Kansas department of health and environment that authorizes a licensee to
operate and maintain a secure residential treatment facility.
(j) "Program" means the comprehensive and
coordinated activities and services providing for the care, protection, and
treatment of youth.
(k) "Program
director" means the staff person responsible for the oversight and
implementation of the program.
(l)
"Restraint" means the application of any devices, other than human force alone,
to any part of the body of a youth in care for the purpose of preventing the
youth from causing injury to oneself or others.
(m) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
Kansas department of health and environment.
(n) "Secure facility" means a child care
facility that is operated or structured to ensure that the entrances and exits
from the facility are under the exclusive control of the staff.
(o) "Secure residential treatment facility"
means a secure facility operated or structured to provide a therapeutic
residential care alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for five or more
youth with a diagnosis of a severe emotional, behavioral, or psychiatric
condition.
(p) "Treatment" means
comprehensive, individualized, goal-directed, therapeutic services provided to
youth.
(q) "Treatment team" means
the secure residential treatment facility's interdisciplinary personnel
responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of each youth's
individualized plan of care.
(r)
"Youth" means a person or persons who are admitted to a secure residential
treatment facility for treatment.
(s) "Youth care staff" means the persons
employed by the secure residential treatment facility to supervise the youth.
(t) "Youth record" means any
electronic or written document concerning a youth admitted to a secure
residential treatment facility that is created or obtained by an employee of
the secure residential treatment facility.
Notes
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