The child/adolescent residential treatment facility shall ensure that an adequate number of professional staff is qualified by training and experience to provide clinical supervision of other staff and to provide programmatic direction. The staffing composition pattern shall be subject to approval by the State Department of Health and shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
1. A licensed Registered Nurse who has at least three years of experience working with children/adolescents; and/or2. A licensed psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who has at least three years of experience working with children/adolescents; and/or3. A licensed physician who is a board certified or board eligible pediatrician or who is board eligible in family practice;4. A licensed physician who is a board certified or board eligible psychiatrist qualified in child psychiatry;5. A licensed psychologist who has specialized training and experience in the evaluation and treatment of mental disorders of children and/or adolescents;6. A licensed master level social worker who has a master's degree and is clinically qualified by training and two years experience in working with mentally ill children/adolescents or a Licensed Professional Counselor who is clinically qualified by training and two years experience in working with mentally ill children/adolescents;7. A qualified therapeutic recreation specialist;8. A qualified rehabilitation counselor who has three years of experience in working with mentally ill children/adolescents.15 Miss. Code. R. § 16-1-51.19.6
Miss. Code Ann. § 43-11-13