Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 71.34 - Behavioral Health Services for Minors.
71.34.530 - Outpatient treatment of adolescent.

RCW 71.34.530
Outpatient treatment of adolescent.

Any adolescent may request and receive outpatient treatment without the consent of the adolescent's parent. Parental authorization, or authorization from a person who may consent on behalf of the minor pursuant to RCW 7.70.065, is required for outpatient treatment of a minor under the age of thirteen.

[ 2019 c 381 § 6; 2006 c 93 § 4; 1998 c 296 § 12; 1995 c 312 § 52; 1985 c 354 § 3. Formerly RCW 71.34.030.]
NOTES:

Short title—2019 c 381: See note following RCW 71.34.500.


Findings—Intent—Part headings not law—Short title—1998 c 296: See notes following RCW 74.13.025.


Short title—1995 c 312: See note following RCW 13.32A.010.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 71 - Behavioral Health

Chapter 71.34 - Behavioral Health Services for Minors.

71.34.010 - Purpose.

71.34.020 - Definitions.

71.34.300 - Evaluation and treatment program for minors—Authority's responsibility.

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.

71.34.351 - Delivery of minor to treatment facilities.

71.34.355 - Rights of minors undergoing treatment—Posting—Waiver—Presumption of incompetency.

71.34.356 - Possessions of minors undergoing treatment.

71.34.360 - No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday—Exceptions.

71.34.365 - Release of minor—Requirements.

71.34.375 - Family-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, department of health, and authority to adopt rules to effectuate chapter.

71.34.385 - Uniform application of chapter—Training for designated crisis responders.

71.34.387 - Online training for behavioral health providers—State law and best practices when providing behavioral health services to children, youth, and families.

71.34.3871 - Stakeholder engagement efforts to measure impacts of the adolescent behavioral health care access act (2019 c 381)—Reports to governor and legislature.

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 authority.

71.34.405 - Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care—Rules.

71.34.406 - Liability of costs of minor's treatment—Involuntary detention—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.

71.34.430 - Release of adolescent's mental health information to parent without adolescent's consent.

71.34.440 - Detention of minors—Permission to leave facility.

71.34.500 - Self-admission of adolescent for inpatient behavioral health treatment or substance use disorder treatment—Requirements.

71.34.510 - Notice to parents of adolescent voluntarily admitted to inpatient treatment—When required—Duties of professional person in charge—Form of notice.

71.34.520 - Notice of intent to leave inpatient treatment by adolescent voluntarily admitted—Duties of receiving staff member—Time frame for discharge of adolescent.

71.34.530 - Outpatient treatment of adolescent.

71.34.600 - Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring inpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for admission, evaluation, and treatment—Duties and obligations of professional pers...

71.34.610 - Authority's review of medical necessity of inpatient treatment of adolescent admitted to a facility due to parental request—Required considerations in making determination—Procedures for release—At-risk youth petition—Costs—Public funds.

71.34.620 - Adolescent's court petition for release from inpatient treatment facility—Judicial review of medical necessity.

71.34.630 - Adolescent not released from inpatient treatment facility by court petition—Release within thirty days—Initiation of proceedings to stop release.

71.34.640 - Evaluation of treatment of adolescents.

71.34.650 - Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring outpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for evaluation and certain treatment—Treatment reviews—Discharge.

71.34.660 - Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting adolescent.

71.34.670 - "Appropriately trained professional person" defined by rule.

71.34.680 - Data collection and tracking system for adolescents receiving treatment.

71.34.700 - Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Temporary detention.

71.34.705 - Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.

71.34.706 - Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.

71.34.710 - Adolescent who presents likelihood of serious harm or is gravely disabled—Transport to inpatient facility—Petition for initial detention—Notice—Facility to evaluate and admit or release adolescent.

71.34.720 - Examination and evaluation of minor approved for inpatient admission—Referral to a secure withdrawal management and stabilization facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Right to communication, exception—Evaluation and treatm...

71.34.730 - Petition for fourteen-day commitment—Requirements.

71.34.735 - Commitment hearing—Continuance or postponement.

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.

71.34.755 - Less restrictive alternative treatment—Requirements.

71.34.760 - Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Placement committee—Facility or program 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 facility or program—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.

71.34.796 - Transfer of person committed to juvenile correction institution to institution or facility for juveniles with behavioral health disorders.

71.34.815 - Assisted outpatient treatment—Findings—Petition, court order for less restrictive alternative treatment—Procedure.

71.34.905 - Rule making—Access to files and records of court proceedings.

71.34.910 - Appearance by video technology.

71.34.915 - Authority outreach—Law and policy communication—Accessibility.

71.34.918 - Authority outreach—Parent portal—Report to legislature.