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Terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Collateral contact," telephone or face-to-face contact with an individual, other than the recipient receiving treatment, to: (a) Plan appropriate treatment; (b) Assist others in responding therapeutically regarding the recipient's difficulty or illness; or (c) Link the recipient, family, or both, to other necessary and therapeutic community support; (2) "Diagnostic assessment," a written comprehensive evaluation of symptoms that indicate a diagnosis of a mental disorder; (3) "Family," a unit of two or more individuals, related by blood or by past or present marriage. A family may also include another individual who lives in the same household with the recipient, who will reside in the home in the future, or who resides elsewhere, if the individual's participation is necessary to accomplish the recipient's treatment plan goals and the individual is considered an essential and integral part of the family unit identified in the treatment plan; (4) "Group," a unit of at least two, but no more than ten, individuals who, because of the commonality and the nature of their diagnoses, can derive mutual benefit from psychotherapy and the therapy can be demonstrated to be medically necessary for the individuals to jointly participate, in order to accomplish treatment plan goals through a group psychotherapy session; (5) "Mental disorder," an organic disorder of the brain or a clinically significant disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or behavior; (6) "Mental health services," nonresidential psychiatric or psychological diagnostic assessment and treatment that is goal-oriented and designed for the care and treatment of an individual who has a primary diagnosis of a mental disorder; (7) "Mental health treatment," goal-oriented therapy designed for the care and treatment of an individual who has a primary diagnosis of a mental disorder; (8) "Psychologist," for services provided in South Dakota, a person licensed under SDCL 36-27A-12 or 36-27A-13. For services provided in another state, a person licensed as a psychologist in the state where the services are provided. For purposes of the medical assistance program, a person practicing under SDCL 36-27A-11 is specifically excluded from this definition; (9) "Psychotherapy," the face-to-face or telehealth treatment of a recipient by a mental health provider using a psychological or psychiatric method to treat an individual with a primary or provisional mental health disorder; (10) "Telehealth," a method of delivering services through the use of interactive audio-visual or audio-only technology, in accordance with SDCL chapter 34-52; and (11) "Treatment plan," a written, individualized, and comprehensive plan that is based on the information and outcome of a recipient's diagnostic assessment and that is designed to improve the recipient's mental disorder.
Source: 22 SDR 6, effective July 26, 1995; 26 SDR 168, effective July 1, 2000; 37 SDR 53, effective September 23, 2010; 45 SDR 82, effective December 10, 2018; 48 SDR 39, effective October 3, 2021; 53 SDR 35, effective October 1, 2026.