Mental Health Assessments Sample Clauses

Mental Health Assessments. In order to provide prisoners timely access to a Qualified Mental Health Professional as is clinically appropriate, the Jail will refer prisoners for mental health assessments based on the results of the mental health intake or sick call process set forth above and in accordance with the following:

Mental Health Assessments. 23. By 12 months from the Effective Date hereof, CVH shall ensure that, consistent with generally accepted professional standards of care, each individual shall receive, promptly after admission to CVH, an assessment of the conditions responsible for the individual’s admission, and provide that it is accurate and complete to the degree possible given the available information at the time of admission. To the degree possible given the available information, the individual’s interdisciplinary team shall be responsible for investigating the past and present medical, nursing, psychiatric, substance abuse and psychosocial factors bearing on the patient’s condition, and, when necessary, for revising assessments and treatment plans in accordance with new information that comes to light. Thereafter, each individual shall receive a reassessment whenever there has been a significant change in the individual’s status, a lack of expected improvement resulting from treatment clinically indicated, or twelve months since the previous reassessment.

Mental Health Assessments. Defendant shall adopt and fully implement new policies, procedures, and training curricula to ensure the following: a. A Qualified Mental Health Professional or a member of the Qualified Mental Health Staff who is appropriately supervised by a Qualified Mental Health Professional shall conduct appropriate mental health assessments within the following time periods from the initial screen or other identification of need: (1) 10 days, or sooner if medically necessary, for prisoners with routine mental health needs;

Mental Health Assessments. The State will ensure that all children admitted to Xxxxxx receive a comprehensive assessment by a Qualified Mental Health Professional in a timely manner utilizing reliable approaches. Assessments will include adequate collection of and consideration of relevant information from interviews and reasonably available records, including: a. Physical observations; b. Past history of mental health diagnoses and treatment (both inpatient and outpatient), including medication; c. Developmental, educational, family, and social history; d. Ethnocultural background and history and significant events in the child’s life (for example, multi-generational trauma, parents who are immigrants, incarceration history of parents); e. Intellectual functioning (e.g., intellectual disability, developmental disability, learning disability) and follow-up testing, when indicated; f. Adverse childhood experiences, including victimization or other trauma and the impact that traumatic events and experiences may have had on the child’s mental health and may have on his functioning in the correctional setting; g. Evidence of psychosocial stressors (e.g., significant loss such as the death of a family member or close friend); h. Evidence of prior drug and alcohol use and abuse and the relationship to the child’s mental health; i. Past suicidal ideation or attempts; j. Current suicidal ideation, threat, or plan; and k. Emotional response to the child’s criminal charges and/or incarceration.