N.J. Admin. Code § 10:37I-5.3

Current through Register Vol. 57, No. 1, January 6, 2025

Section 10:37I-5.3 - Population priorities

(a) Services shall be offered to parents, spouses, siblings, and children of adults with a serious mental illness. Others who may use such services include relatives who are closely involved in and concerned about the daily functioning of the family member with a serious mental illness, or significant others and non-relatives who are the primary caregivers for the family member with a serious mental illness.

1. For the purposes of the IFSS program priorities, serious mental illness shall be defined, using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, incorporated herein by reference. Copies of the DSM may be obtained from the American Psychiatric Association, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209-3901. Serious mental illness is a primary psychiatric diagnosis or exhibiting symptoms of:

i. Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders;

ii. Major depressive disorders;

iii. Bipolar disorders;

iv. Delusional disorders;

v. Schizoaffective disorder; or

vi. Obsessive-compulsive disorder in the severe range.

2. Family members of close relatives with personality disorders in the severe range may qualify if their ill family member has a history of or is at risk of hospitalization as a result of the personality disorder.

(b) Services shall be made available to family members living in the geographic area served by the PA regardless of the family's ability to pay for services or whether or not their ill family member is enrolled in agency services or resides in the PA's geographic area. Family members may receive services from a PA located outside the geographic area in which they are living if that PA agrees. However, PAs shall give priority to family members residing in their geographic area.

(c) Efforts shall be made to offer services to families in crisis. Referral protocols shall be developed with psychiatric inpatient and screening center programs which recognize the need of families at such times for support.

N.J. Admin. Code § 10:37I-5.3

Amended by 48 N.J.R. 2439(b), effective 11/21/2016