SECTION .6900 - CONSULTATION AND EDUCATION SERVICES

 

10a NCAC 27g .6901       SCOPE

(a)  Consultation is a prevention or intervention service

provided to other mental health, human service, and community planning and

development organizations or individual practitioners of other organizations

designed to both impart knowledge and assist recipients in developing insights

and skills necessary to carry out their service responsibilities.  The ultimate

goal is to increase the quality of care available in the service delivery

system.

(b)  Education is a prevention or intervention service

designed to impart knowledge to various target groups, including clients,

families, schools, businesses, churches, industries, and civic and other

community groups in the interest of increasing understanding of the nature of

mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse disorders, and the

availability of various community resources.  It also serves to improve the

social functioning of recipients by increasing awareness of human behavior and

providing alternative cognitive or behavioral responses to life situations.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 143B‑147;

Eff. May 1, 1996.