Client or patient definition

Client or patient means an individual who, when competent requests, or when not competent to request is lawfully provided professional services by a mental health therapist when the mental health therapist agrees verbally or in writing to provide professional services to that individual, or without an overt agreement does in fact provide professional services to that individual.
Client or patient means the recipient of psychological services,
Client or patient means the recipient of psychological services, whether psychological services are delivered in the context of health care, corporate, supervision, or consulting services.

More Definitions of Client or patient

Client or patient means the recipient of
Client or patient means an individual who, when competent requests, or when not competent to request is lawfully
Client or patient means a person admitted or committed to, a patient of or in the care, custody, or control of any a public or private agency, department, hospital, institution, or facility, not including persons sentenced to the South Carolina Department of Corrections or children committed to the South Carolina Department of Youth Services.

Related to Client or patient

  • Patient means a person who is undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in any hospital or similar institution;

  • Hospice patient s family" means a hospice patient's immediate family members, including a spouse, brother, sister, child, or parent, and any other relative or individual who has significant personal ties to the patient and who is designated as a member of the patient's family by mutual agreement of the patient, the relative or individual, and the patient's interdisciplinary team.

  • Autism spectrum disorders means any of the pervasive developmental disorders as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association, including autistic disorder, Asperger's disorder and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified. [PL 2011, c. 420, Pt. A, §26 (RAL).]

  • Patients means both Public Patients and the Private Patients (referred by private doctors/private hospitals);

  • In-Patient means a person admitted to a hospital as a resident or bed- patient and who is provided at least one day's room and board by the hospital.