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Last Updated: Aug 6th, 2008 - 09:50:39 |
Mental Health Dictionary -F
A broad range of living arrangements that simulate a family situation. This includes foster care and small group homes.
Mental Health Dictionary - A
The extent to which an individual who needs care and services is able to receive them. Access is more than having insurance coverage or the ability to pay for services. It is also determined by the availability of services, acceptability of services, cultural appropriateness, location, hours of operation, transportation needs, and cost.
Mental Health Dictionary -B
Continuum of services for individuals at risk of, or suffering from, mental, addictive, or other behavioral health disorders.
Mental Health Dictionary - C
A fixed amount of money paid per person for covered services for a specific time; usually expressed in units of per member per month (pmpm).
Mental Health Dictionary -D
Day treatment includes special education, counseling, parent training, vocational training, skill building, crisis intervention, and recreational therapy. It lasts at least 4 hours a day. Day treatment programs work in conjunction with mental health, recreation, and education organizations and may even be provided by them.
Mental Health Dictionary -E
A process used to recognize warning signs for mental health problems and to take early action against factors that put individuals at risk. Early intervention can help children get better in less time and can prevent problems from becoming worse.
Mental Health Dictionary - G
Primary care physician or local agency responsible for coordinating and managing the health care needs of members. Generally, in order for specialty services such as mental health and hospital care to be covered, the gatekeeper must first approve the referral.
Mental Health Dictionary - H
Hallucinations are experiences of sensations that have no source. Some examples of hallucinations include hearing nonexistent voices, seeing nonexistent things, and experiencing burning or pain sensations with no physical cause.
Mental Health Dictionary - I
Indemnity insurance plans are an alternative to managed care plans. These plans charge consumers a set amount for coverage and reimburse (fully or partially) consumers for most medical services.
Mental Health Dictionary - L
Legal services provided to ensure the protection and maintenance of a client's/patient's rights.
Mental Health Dictionary - M
An organized system for delivering comprehensive mental health services that allows the managed care entity to determine what services will be provided to an individual in return for a prearranged financial payment. Generally, managed care controls health care costs and discourages unnecessary hospitalization and overuse of specialists, and the health plan operates under contract to a payer.
Mental Health Dictionary - N
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
Mental Health Dictionary - O
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a chronic, relapsing illness. People who have it suffer from recurrent and unwanted thoughts or rituals. The obsessions and the need to perform rituals can take over a person's life if left untreated. They feel they cannot control these thoughts or rituals.
Mental Health Dictionary - P
People with panic disorder experience heart-pounding terror that strikes suddenly and without warning. Since they cannot predict when a panic attack will seize them, many people live in persistent worry that another one could overcome them at any moment.
Mental Health Dictionary - Q
An approach to improving the quality and appropriateness of medical care and other services. Includes a formal set of activities to review, assess, and monitor care to ensure that identified problems are addressed.
Mental Health Dictionary - R
A registered nurse is a trained professional with a nursing degree who provides patient care and administers medicine.
Mental Health Dictionary - S
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by "positive" and "negative" symptoms. Psychotic, or positive, symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking (apparent from a person's fragmented, disconnected and sometimes nonsensical speech). Negative symptoms include social withdrawal, extreme apathy, diminished motivation, and blunted emotional expression.
Mental Health Dictionary - T
A dedicated telephone line that is advertised and may be operated as a crisis hotline for emergency counseling, or as a referral resource for callers with mental health problems.
Mental Health Dictionary - U
This on-line forum was created especially for the nation's jobless and underemployed workers. This resource is available to help the unemployed learn more about the unemployment system, to share their experiences and concerns, and to participate in the national debate over aid to the jobless.
Mental Health Dictionary - V
A practice of selling off health plan subsidiaries or provider activities. Vertical disintegration was a trend in the late 1990s.
Mental Health Dictionary - W
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
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