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Title 71 - MENTAL ILLNESS
71.34 Mental health services for minors.
- 71.34.010 Purpose—Parental participation in treatment decisions—Parental control of minor children during treatment.
- 71.34.020 Definitions.
GENERAL
- 71.34.300 Responsibility of counties for evaluation and treatment services for minors.
- 71.34.305 Notice to parents, school contacts for referring students to inpatient treatment.
- 71.34.310 Jurisdiction over proceedings under chapter—Venue.
- 71.34.315 Mental health commissioners—Authority.
- 71.34.320 Transfer of superior court proceedings to juvenile department.
- 71.34.325 Court proceedings under chapter subject to rules of state supreme court.
- 71.34.330 Attorneys appointed for minors—Compensation.
- 71.34.335 Court records and files confidential—Availability.
- 71.34.355 Rights of minors undergoing treatment—Posting.
- 71.34.360 No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday—Exceptions.
- 71.34.365 Release of minor—Requirements.
- 71.34.370 Antipsychotic medication and shock treatment.
- 71.34.375 Parent-initiated treatment—Notice to parents of available treatment options.
- 71.34.377 Failure to notify parent or guardian of treatment options—Civil penalty.
- 71.34.379 Notice to parent or guardian—Treatment options—Policy and protocol adoption—Report.
- 71.34.380 Department to adopt rules to effectuate chapter.
- 71.34.385 Uniform application of chapter—Training for county-designated mental health professionals.
- 71.34.390 Redirection of Title XIX funds to fund placements within the state.
- 71.34.395 Availability of treatment does not create right to obtain public funds.
- 71.34.400 Eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW—Payment by department.
- 71.34.405 Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care—Rules.
- 71.34.410 Liability for performance of duties under this chapter limited.
- 71.34.415 Judicial services—Civil commitment cases—Reimbursement.
- 71.34.420 Evaluation and treatment services—Unavailability—Single bed certification.
MINOR-INITIATED TREATMENT
- 71.34.500 Minor thirteen or older may be admitted for inpatient mental treatment without parental consent—Professional person in charge must concur—Written renewal of consent required.
- 71.34.510 Notice to parents when minor admitted to inpatient treatment without parental consent.
- 71.34.520 Minor voluntarily admitted may give notice to leave at any time.
- 71.34.530 Age of consent—Outpatient treatment of minors.
PARENT-INITIATED TREATMENT
- 71.34.600 Parent may request determination whether minor has mental disorder requiring inpatient treatment—Minor consent not required—Duties and obligations of professional person and facility.
- 71.34.610 Review of admission and inpatient treatment of minors—Determination of medical necessity—Department review—Minor declines necessary treatment—At-risk youth petition—Costs—Public funds.
- 71.34.620 Minor may petition court for release from facility.
- 71.34.630 Minor not released by petition under RCW 71.34.620—Release within thirty days—Professional may initiate proceedings to stop release.
- 71.34.640 Evaluation of treatment of minors.
- 71.34.650 Parent may request determination whether minor has mental disorder requiring outpatient treatment—Consent of minor not required—Discharge of minor.
- 71.34.660 Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting minor child.
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT
- 71.34.700 Evaluation of minor thirteen or older brought for immediate mental health services—Temporary detention.
- 71.34.710 Minor thirteen or older who presents likelihood of serious harm or is gravely disabled—Transport to inpatient facility—Petition for initial detention—Notice of commitment hearing—Facility to evaluate and admit or release minor.
- 71.34.720 Examination and evaluation of minor approved for inpatient admission—Referral to chemical dependency treatment program—Right to communication, exception—Evaluation and treatment period.
- 71.34.730 Petition for fourteen-day commitment—Requirements.
- 71.34.740 Commitment hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment—Release.
- 71.34.750 Petition for one hundred eighty-day commitment—Hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment order—Release—Successive commitments.
- 71.34.760 Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility—Placement committee—Facility to report to committee.
- 71.34.770 Release of minor—Conditional release—Discharge.
- 71.34.780 Minor's failure to adhere to outpatient conditions—Deterioration of minor's functioning—Transport to inpatient facility—Order of apprehension and detention—Revocation of alternative treatment or conditional release—Hearings.
- 71.34.790 Transportation for minors committed to state facility for one hundred eighty-day treatment.
- 71.34.795 Transferring or moving persons from juvenile correctional institutions or facilities to evaluation and treatment facilities.
- 71.34.901 Effective date—1985 c 354.
NOTES:
Court files and records closed—Exceptions: RCW 71.05.620.
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