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If all of the new healthcare words and phrases leave your head spinning, here are explanations of a few terms you should know.
Acute Services – treatment services provided in an inpatient setting.
Behavioral Health Care - evaluation and therapy services used in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems.
Biologically based mental illness - The following diagnoses are defined as biologically based mental illness as they apply to adults and children: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and drug and alcohol addiction.
Care Management – the process of working with treating providers to assist in identifying the patient’s clinical needs, developing and implementing a plan of care that effectively and efficiently meets those needs in the most normalized setting possible, in the most cost effective manner, and within the patient’s health care benefit, when possible.
Clinical Psychologist (LCP) – an individual licensed to practice clinical psychology which includes testing and measuring of individuals or groups, diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders, and psychological consulting.
Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) – a social worker who, by education and experience, is professionally qualified at the autonomous practice level to provide direct diagnostic, preventive and treatment services where functioning is threatened or affected by social and psychological stress or health impairment.
Intensive Outpatient Services (IOP) – a type of outpatient treatment for certain disorders that has frequent sessions over a short period of time, generally involving individual, group, family, and community support contacts. IOPs often target eating disorder, substance abuse/dependence disorders or child/adolescent behavior disorders.
LCP – Licensed Clinical Psychologist
LCSW – Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
LNP – Licensed Nurse Practitioner
LPC – Licensed Professional Counselor
Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) – a person trained in the assessment and treatment of cognitive, affective, or behavioral mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage and family systems through the application of therapeutic and family systems theories and techniques.
Nurse Clinical Specialist (RNCS) - a person who is registered by the Board in addition to holding a license under the provisions of this chapter to practice professional nursing. Such a person shall be recognized as being able to provide advanced services according to the specialized training in psychiatric nursing.
Nurse Practitioner (LNP) – a licensed registered nurse who is permitted to distribute, dispense, prescribe and administer, or conduct research with respect to, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice.
Partial Hospital services – sometimes called day hospital; behavioral health treatment services provided during the day, at which the patient stays all day and returns home in the evening.
Pre-authorization – an agreement to provide reimbursement for services prior to their delivery.
Professional Counselor (LPC) – a person trained in counseling interventions designed to facilitate an individual's achievement of human development goals and remediating mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders and associated distresses which interfere with mental health and development.
Psychiatrist – an individual licensed to practice medicine, including the prescribing of medication, for the treatment of mental and emotional disorders and diseases.
Service Area - the geographical area served by a network of health care providers.
Solution Focused Treatment – a type of short term behavioral health treatment. The goal is quick identification of areas of emotional distress from which relief is sought, accompanied by development and implementation of solutions for relief.
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