Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 1-103 – Definitions

When used in this title, unless otherwise expressly stated, or unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:

1. "Department" means the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;
2. "Chair" means the chair of the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;
3. "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, psychological orientation or memory that significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life;
4. "Board" means the "Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services" as established by this law;
5. "Commissioner" means the individual selected and appointed by the Board to serve as Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;
6. "Indigent person" means a person who has not sufficient assets or resources to support the person and to support members of the family of the person lawfully dependent on the person for support;
7. "Facility" means any hospital, school, building, house or retreat, authorized by law to have the care, treatment or custody of the mentally ill or drug-dependent or alcohol-dependent persons including, but not limited to, public or private hospitals, community mental health centers, clinics, satellites or facilities; provided that facility shall not mean a child guidance center operated by the State Department of Health;
8. "Consumer" means a person under care or treatment in a facility pursuant to the Mental Health Law, or in an outpatient status;
9. "Care and treatment" means medical care and behavioral health services, as well as food, clothing and maintenance, furnished to a person;
10. Whenever in this law or in any other law, or in any rule or order made or promulgated pursuant to this law or to any other law, or in the printed forms prepared for the admission of consumers or for statistical reports, the words "insane", "insanity", "lunacy", "mentally sick", "mental disease" or "mental disorder" are used, such terms shall have equal significance to the words "mental illness";
11. "Licensed mental health professional" means:
1. a. a psychiatrist who is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology,
2. b. a physician licensed pursuant to Section 480 et seq. or Section 620 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes who has received specific training for and is experienced in performing mental health therapeutic, diagnostic, or counseling functions,
3. c. a clinical psychologist who is duly licensed to practice by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists,
4. d. a professional counselor licensed pursuant to Section 1901 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes,
5. e. a person licensed as a clinical social worker pursuant to the provisions of the Social Worker’s Licensing Act,
6. f. a licensed marital and family therapist as defined in Section 1925.1 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes,
7. g. a licensed behavioral practitioner as defined in Section 1930 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or
8. h. an advanced practice nurse as defined in Section 567.1 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes specializing in mental health;
12. "Mentally incompetent person" means any person who has been adjudicated mentally or legally incompetent by an appropriate district court;
13.
1. a. "Person requiring treatment" means:
  1. (1) a person who because of a mental illness of the person represents a risk of harm to self or others,
  2. (2) a person who is a drug- or alcohol-dependent person and who as a result of dependency represents a risk of harm to self or others, or
  3. (3) a person who appears to require inpatient treatment:
    1. (a)
    2. (i) for a previously diagnosed history of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression with suicidal intent, or
    3. (ii) due to the appearance of symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression with suicidal intent, and
    4. (b) for whom such treatment is reasonably believed will prevent progressively more debilitating mental impairment.
      Nothing in divisions (1) and (2) of this subparagraph shall be limited by the provisions of division (3) of this subparagraph.
2. b. Unless a person also meets the criteria established in subparagraph a of this paragraph, person requiring treatment shall not mean:
  1. (1) a person whose mental processes have been weakened or impaired by reason of advanced years,
  2. (2) a mentally retarded or developmentally disabled person as defined in Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes,
  3. (3) a person with seizure disorder, or
  4. (4) a person with a traumatic brain injury;
14. "Petitioner" means a person who files a petition alleging that an individual is a person requiring treatment;
15. "Executive director" means the person in charge of a facility as defined in this section;
16. "Private hospital or facility" means any general hospital maintaining a neuro-psychiatric unit or ward, or any private hospital or facility for care and treatment of a person having a mental illness, which is not supported by the state or federal government. The term "private hospital" or " facility" shall not include nursing homes or other facilities maintained primarily for the care of elderly and disabled persons;
17. "Individualized treatment plan" means a proposal developed during the stay of an individual in a facility, under the provisions of this title, which is specifically tailored to the treatment needs of the individual. Each plan shall clearly include the following:
1. a. a statement of treatment goals or objectives, based upon and related to a clinical evaluation, which can be reasonably achieved within a designated time interval,
2. b. treatment methods and procedures to be used to obtain these goals, which methods and procedures are related to each of these goals and which include specific prognosis for achieving each of these goals,
3. c. identification of the types of professional personnel who will carry out the treatment procedures, including appropriate medical or other professional involvement by a physician or other health professional properly qualified to fulfill legal requirements mandated under state and federal law,
4. d. documentation of involvement by the individual receiving treatment and, if applicable, the accordance of the individual with the treatment plan, and
5. e. a statement attesting that the executive director of the facility or clinical director has made a reasonable effort to meet the plan's individualized treatment goals in the least restrictive environment possible closest to the home community of the individual; and
18. "Risk of harm to self or others" means:
1. a. a substantial risk of immediate physical harm to self as manifested by evidence or serious threats of or attempts at suicide or other self-inflicted or bodily harm,
2. b. a substantial risk of immediate physical harm to another person or persons as manifested by evidence of violent behavior directed toward another person or persons,
3. c. having placed another person or persons in a reasonable fear of violent behavior directed towards such person or persons or serious physical harm to them as manifested by serious threats,
4. d. a reasonable certainty that without immediate treatment severe impairment or injury will result to the person alleged to be a person requiring treatment as manifested by the inability of the person to avoid or protect self from such impairment or injury, or
5. e. a substantial risk of serious physical impairment or injury to self as manifested by evidence that the person is unable to provide for and is not providing for the basic physical needs of the person and that appropriate provision for those needs cannot be made immediately available in the community.

Laws 1953, HB 846, p. 152, § 3, emerg. eff. May 2, 1953; Amended by Laws 1959, HB 651, p. 185, § 1, emerg. eff. June 27, 1959; Amended by Laws 1963, HB 739, c. 310, § 1, emerg. eff. June 19, 1963; Amended by Laws 1965, SB 12, c. 32, § 1, emerg. eff. March 3, 1965; Amended by Laws 1965, HB 967, c. 381, § 1, emerg. eff. June 29, 1965; Amended by Laws 1977, SB 240, c. 145, § 2, emerg. eff. June 3, 1977; Amended by Laws 1978, HB 1846, c. 247, § 1, eff. October 1, 1978; Amended by Laws 1980, SB 633, c. 324, § 3, emerg. eff. June 17, 1980; Renumbered from 43A O.S. § 3 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 3, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1478, c. 118, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1987; Amended by Laws 1990, SB 866, c. 51, § 23, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Amended by Laws 1992, SB 978, c. 389, § 1, emerg. eff. June 10, 1992; Amended by Laws 2001, HB 1107, c. 186, § 2, eff. November 1, 2001 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2002, SB 1624, c. 488 § 1, eff. November 1, 2002 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1063, c. 394, § 2 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2005, HB 1845, c. 150, § 1, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005 (repealed by Laws 2006, HB 3139, c. 16, § 19, emerg. eff. March 29, 2006); Amended by Laws 2005, HB 561, c. 195, § 1, eff. November 1, 2005 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2006, HB 3139, c. 16, § 18, emerg. eff. March 29, 2006 (superseded document available).