New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 371 - DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Part 2 - REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED
Section 8.371.2.88 - PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Universal Citation: 8 NM Admin Code 8.371.2.88
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
The facility must:
A. provide psychological services through personal contact between psychologists and clients and through contact between psychologists and individuals involved with the clients;
B. have available enough qualified staff and support personnel to furnish the following psychological services based on need:
(1) administration and supervision of
psychological services;
(2) staff
training.
C. a qualified psychologist must:
(1) participate, when
appropriate, in the continuing interdisciplinary evaluation of each individual
client for the purpose of beginning, monitoring and following-up on the clients
individualized habilitation program.
(2) report and disseminate evaluation results
in a manner that:
(a) promptly provides
information useful to staff working directly with the clients;
(b) maintains accepted standards of
confidentiality.
(3)
participate, when appropriate, in the development of written detailed, specific
and individualized habilitation program that:
(a) provide for periodic review, follow-up
and updating;
(b) are designated to
maximize each client's development and acquisition of perceptual skills,
sensorimotor skills, self-help skills, communication skills, social
skills,self-direction, emotional stability, and effective use of time,
including leisure time.
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