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Mental Illness means a diagnosis made by a professional
certified by the Kansas Board of Behavioral Sciences using the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision
(DSM-IV-TR) published by the American Psychiatric Association in 2000.
Adults with severe and persistent mental illness means those
persons who typically meet one of the following criteria:
- Has undergone psychiatric treatment more intensive than outpatient care
more than once in a lifetime (e.g., alternative home care, partial
hospitalization, inpatient hospitalization, or emergency services),
- Has experienced a single episode of continuous, structured supportive
residential care other than hospitalization for a duration of at least two
months.
In addition, such individuals typically meet at least two of the
following criteria, on a continuing or intermittent basis, for at least two
years:
- Is unemployed, is employed in a sheltered setting, or has markedly
limited skills and a poor work history,
- Requires public financial assistance for out-of-hospital maintenance and
may be unable to procure such assistance without help,
- Shows severe inability to establish or maintain a personal social
support system,
- Requires help in basic living skills, and
- Exhibits inappropriate social behavior which results in demand for
intervention by the mental health and/or judicial system.
A child with severe emotional disturbance is a person who:
- Is under the age of 18 years,
- Exhibits sever behavioral, emotional, or social disabilities that
consequently disrupts the person’s academic and developmental progress,
family and/or interpersonal relationships, often to the point that the
person is at risk for out-of-home placement, or is placed out of the home,
or
- Has disabilities that have continued for an extended period of time or,
on the basis of specific diagnosis by a qualified professional, are judged
likely to continue for an extended period of time, or
- Has emotional disabilities that can not be attributed solely to
intellectual, physical, or sensory deficits, or
- Frequently requires intensive, well coordinated treatment delivered by
an interdisciplinary team involving the family, courts, education, mental
health, and other family service agencies.
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