Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 71 Mental Illness - Chapter 71.34 Mental Health Services For Minors

71.34.010 Purpose -- Parental participation in treatment decisions -- Parental control of minor children during treatment
It is the purpose of this chapter to assure that minors in need of mental health care and treatment receive an appropriate continuum of culturally ...

71.34.020 Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Child psychiatrist" means a person having a license as ...

71.34.300 Responsibility of counties for evaluation and treatment services for minors
(1) The county or combination of counties is responsible for development and coordination of the evaluation and treatment program for minors, for incorporating the program ...

71.34.305 Notice to parents, school contacts for referring students to inpatient treatment
School district personnel who contact a mental health inpatient treatment program or provider for the purpose of referring a student to inpatient treatment shall provide ...

71.34.310 Jurisdiction over proceedings under chapter -- Venue
(1) The superior court has jurisdiction over proceedings under this chapter. (2) A record of all petitions and proceedings under this chapter shall be maintained ...

71.34.315 Mental health commissioners -- Authority
The judges of the superior court of the county by majority vote may authorize mental health commissioners, appointed pursuant to RCW 71.05.135, to perform any ...

71.34.320 Transfer of superior court proceedings to juvenile department
For purposes of this chapter, a superior court may transfer proceedings under this chapter to its juvenile department.[1985 c 354 § 28. Formerly RCW 71.34.260.] ...

71.34.325 Court proceedings under chapter subject to rules of state supreme court
Court procedures and proceedings provided for in this chapter shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the supreme court of the state of Washington.[1985 ...

71.34.330 Attorneys appointed for minors -- Compensation
Attorneys appointed for minors under this chapter shall be compensated for their services as follows: (1) Responsible others shall bear the costs of such legal ...

71.34.335 Court records and files confidential -- Availability
The records and files maintained in any court proceeding under this chapter are confidential and available only to the minor, the minor's parent, and the ...

71.34.340 Information concerning treatment of minors confidential -- Disclosure -- Admissible as evidence with written consent
The fact of admission and all information obtained through treatment under this chapter is confidential. Confidential information may be disclosed only: (1) In communications between ...

71.34.345 Mental health services information -- Release to department of corrections -- Rules
(1) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Information related to mental health services" means all ...

71.34.350 Disclosure of information or records -- Required entries in minor's clinical record
When disclosure of information or records is made, the date and circumstances under which the disclosure was made, the name or names of the persons ...

71.34.355 Rights of minors undergoing treatment -- Posting
Absent a risk to self or others, minors treated under this chapter have the following rights, which shall be prominently posted in the evaluation and ...

71.34.360 No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday -- Exceptions
No minor received as a voluntary patient or committed under this chapter may be detained after his or her eighteenth birthday unless the person, upon ...

71.34.365 Release of minor -- Requirements
(1) If a minor is not accepted for admission or is released by an inpatient evaluation and treatment facility, the facility shall release the minor ...

71.34.370 Antipsychotic medication and shock treatment
For the purposes of administration of antipsychotic medication and shock treatment, the provisions of chapter 120, Laws of 1989 apply to minors pursuant to chapter ...

71.34.375 Parent-initiated treatment -- Notice to parents of available treatment options
(1) The evaluation and treatment facility is required to promptly provide written and verbal notice of all statutorily available treatment options contained in this chapter ...

71.34.380 Department to adopt rules to effectuate chapter
The department shall adopt such rules pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW as may be necessary to effectuate the intent and purposes of this chapter, which ...

71.34.385 Uniform application of chapter -- Training for county-designated mental health professionals
The department shall ensure that the provisions of this chapter are applied by the counties in a consistent and uniform manner. The department shall also ...

71.34.390 Redirection of Title XIX funds to fund placements within the state
For the purpose of encouraging the expansion of existing evaluation and treatment facilities and the creation of new facilities, the department shall endeavor to redirect ...

71.34.395 Availability of treatment does not create right to obtain public funds
The ability of a parent to bring his or her minor child to a certified evaluation and treatment program for evaluation and treatment does not ...

71.34.400 Eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW -- Payment by department
For purposes of eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW, minors in inpatient mental health treatment shall be considered to be part of their ...

71.34.405 Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care -- Rules
(1) A minor receiving treatment under the provisions of this chapter and responsible others shall be liable for the costs of treatment, care, and transportation ...

71.34.410 Liability for performance of duties under this chapter limited
No public or private agency or governmental entity, nor officer of a public or private agency, nor the superintendent, or professional person in charge, his ...

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
(1) A minor thirteen years or older may admit himself or herself to an evaluation and treatment facility for inpatient mental treatment, without parental consent. ...

71.34.510 Notice to parents when minor admitted to inpatient treatment without parental consent
The administrator of the treatment facility shall provide notice to the parents of a minor when the minor is voluntarily admitted to inpatient treatment under ...

71.34.520 Minor voluntarily admitted may give notice to leave at any time
(1) Any minor thirteen years or older voluntarily admitted to an evaluation and treatment facility under RCW 71.34.500 may give notice of intent to leave ...

71.34.530 Age of consent -- Outpatient treatment of minors
Any minor thirteen years or older may request and receive outpatient treatment without the consent of the minor's parent. Parental authorization, or authorization from a ...

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
(1) A parent may bring, or authorize the bringing of, his or her minor child to an evaluation and treatment facility or an inpatient 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
(1) The department shall assure that, for any minor admitted to inpatient treatment under RCW 71.34.600, a review is conducted by a physician or other ...

71.34.620 Minor may petition court for release from facility
Following the review conducted under RCW 71.34.610, a minor child may petition the superior court for his or her release from the facility. The petition ...

71.34.630 Minor not released by petition under RCW 71.34.620 -- Release within thirty days -- Professional may initiate proceedings to stop release
If the minor is not released as a result of the petition filed under RCW 71.34.620, he or she shall be released not later than ...

71.34.640 Evaluation of treatment of minors
The department shall randomly select and review the information on children who are admitted to inpatient treatment on application of the child's parent regardless of ...

71.34.650 Parent may request determination whether minor has mental disorder requiring outpatient treatment -- Consent of minor not required -- Discharge of minor
(1) A parent may bring, or authorize the bringing of, his or her minor child to a provider of outpatient mental health treatment and request ...

71.34.660 Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting minor child
A minor child shall have no cause of action against an evaluation and treatment facility, inpatient facility, or provider of outpatient mental health treatment for ...

71.34.700 Evaluation of minor thirteen or older brought for immediate mental health services -- Temporary detention
If a minor, thirteen years or older, is brought to an evaluation and treatment facility or hospital emergency room for immediate mental health services, the ...

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
(1) When a *county-designated mental health professional receives information that a minor, thirteen years or older, as a result of a mental disorder presents a ...

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
(1) Each minor approved by the facility for inpatient admission shall be examined and evaluated by a children's mental health specialist as to the child's ...

71.34.730 Petition for fourteen-day commitment -- Requirements
(1) The professional person in charge of an evaluation and treatment facility where a minor has been admitted involuntarily for the initial seventy-two hour treatment ...

71.34.740 Commitment hearing -- Requirements -- Findings by court -- Commitment -- Release
(1) A commitment hearing shall be held within seventy-two hours of the minor's admission, excluding Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, unless a continuance is requested by ...

71.34.750 Petition for one hundred eighty-day commitment -- Hearing -- Requirements -- Findings by court -- Commitment order -- Release -- Successive commitments
(1) At any time during the minor's period of fourteen-day commitment, the professional person in charge may petition the court for an order requiring the ...

71.34.760 Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility -- Placement committee -- Facility to report to committee
(1) If a minor is committed for one hundred eighty-day inpatient treatment and is to be placed in a state-supported program, the secretary shall accept ...

71.34.770 Release of minor -- Conditional release -- Discharge
(1) The professional person in charge of the inpatient treatment facility may authorize release for the minor under such conditions as appropriate. Conditional release may ...

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
(1) If the professional person in charge of an outpatient treatment program, a *county-designated mental health professional, or the secretary determines that a minor is ...

71.34.790 Transportation for minors committed to state facility for one hundred eighty-day treatment
Necessary transportation for minors committed to the secretary under this chapter for one hundred eighty-day treatment shall be provided by the department in the most ...

71.34.795 Transferring or moving persons from juvenile correctional institutions or facilities to evaluation and treatment facilities
When in the judgment of the department the welfare of any person committed to or confined in any state juvenile correctional institution or facility necessitates ...

71.34.900 Severability -- 1985 c 354
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...

71.34.901 Effective date -- 1985 c 354
This act shall take effect January 1, 1986.[1985 c 354 § 38.] ...