For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) CLIENTS. Those persons identified as receiving or needing services for an intellectual disability.
(2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Mental Health.
(3) INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES. Evaluation for, amelioration of, habilitation for, prevention of, and research into the causes of intellectual disability.
(4) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. Diagnosis of, treatment of, rehabilitation for, follow-up care of, prevention of and research into the causes of all forms of mental or emotional illness, including, but not limited to, alcoholism, drug addiction, or epilepsy in combination with mental illness or an intellectual disability.
(5) MENTAL ILLNESS OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT. The application of professionally planned, managed, administered, or monitored clinical procedures or evidenced-based interventions to identify, stabilize, minimize, or alleviate the harmful consequences of substance related or mental or emotional disorders, and to restore impaired health and functionality relative to such.
(6) PATIENTS. Those persons with mental or emotional illness.
(Acts 1965, No. 881, p. 1649, §9; Acts 1984, No. 84-242, p. 365, §1; Act 2011-582, p. 1278, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Ex parte Montgomery Cnty. Dep't of Human Resources, 10 So. 3d 31 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008).
· cites it 2× “' Code of Alabama 1975, § 22-50-1, et seq. [The Department] is therefore charged by the Legislature to accept minors alleged to be mentally ill and treat them by means of its various programs and facilities.”
Childree v. Health Care Auth. of City of Huntsville, 548 So. 2d 419 (Ala. 1989).
· cites it 2× “the Probate Court of Madison County exceeded its authority by referring indigents to the hospital because, he argues, the Legislature did not confer upon the probate court the authority to commit a person to the Department of Mental Health and order that person placed in a…”
David R. Williams v. Eastside Mental Health Ctr., Inc., 669 F.2d 671 (11th Cir. 1982).
“Subsequently the state passed legislation creating the Department of Mental Health [the Department], see Ala.Code § 22-50-1 (1977), and enacted specific legislation to govern the creation and operation of regional authorities to administer a network of community mental health…”
Ex parte Buckner, 2090692 (ala.civ.app. 9-24-2010), 73 So. 3d 686 (Ala. Civ. App. 2010).
“” Code of Alabama 1975, § 22-50-1, et seq. [The Department] is therefore charged by the Legislature to accept minors alleged to be mentally ill and treat them by means of its various programs and facilities.”
Ex parte State Dep't of Human Resources, 621 So. 2d 406 (Ala. Crim. App. 1993).
“’ Code of Alabama 1975, § 22-50-1, et seq. The Department of Mental Health is therefore charged by the Legislature to accept minors alleged to be mentally ill and treat them by means of its various programs and facilities.”
Waite v. Alabama Dep't of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, 723 So. 2d 11 (Ala. 1998).
“Facilities such as the Developmental Center are established and governed by § 22-50-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975. Had the Legislature intended to include facilities such as the Developmental Center within its definition of a “health care provider” (see § 6-5-542(1)) it easily could…”
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