N.D. Cent. Code § 25-03.2-01 Definitions
25-03.2-01. Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Child" or "children" means a person or persons under the age of twenty-one.
2. "Clinical supervision" means the oversight responsibility for individual treatment plans
and individual service delivery.
3. "Department" means the department of health and human services.
4. "Diagnostic assessment" means a written summary of the history, diagnosis, and
individual treatment needs of a mentally ill person using diagnostic, interview, and
other relevant assessment techniques.
5. "Individual treatment plan" means a written plan of intervention, treatment, and
services for a mentally ill person that is developed under the clinical supervision of a
mental health professional on the basis of a diagnostic assessment.
6. "Mentally ill person" has the same meaning provided for in section 25-03.1-02.
7. "Psychiatric residential treatment facility for children" means a facility or a distinct part
of a facility that provides to children a total, twenty-four hour, therapeutic environment
integrating group living, educational services, and a clinical program based upon a
comprehensive, interdisciplinary clinical assessment, and an individualized treatment
plan that meets the needs of the child and family. The services are available to
children in need of and able to respond to active psychotherapeutic intervention and
who cannot be effectively treated in their own family, in another home, or in a less
restrictive setting. The facility must meet the requirements of a psychiatric residential
treatment facility as set out in title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, part 483.352.
8. "Residential treatment" means a twenty-four hour a day program under the clinical
supervision of a mental health professional, in a community residential setting other
than an acute care hospital, for the active treatment of mentally ill persons.
9. "Serious risk of harm" means a substantial likelihood of:
a. Suicide, as manifested by current suicidal threats, attempts, or significant
depression creating immediate risk of suicide;
b. Killing or inflicting serious bodily harm to self or another person, as manifested by
current act; or
c. Substantial deterioration in physical health or substantial injury, disease, or death
based on current poor self-control or judgment.