This rule establishes general treatment environment management standards for designated receiving and treatment facilities in Florida's mental health system. Facilities must use positive incentives to promote socially appropriate behaviors, post daily activity schedules in common areas, minimize restrictive interventions to only those cases where positive approaches have failed, and ensure all communications are accessible in the language and terminology each person understands.
View official source65E-5.1601 General Management of the Treatment Environment. (1) Management and personnel of the facility’s treatment environment shall use positive incentives in assisting persons to acquire and maintain socially positive behaviors as determined by the person’s age and developmental level. (2) Each designated receiving and treatment facility shall develop a schedule of daily activities listing the times for specific events, which shall be posted in a common area and provided to all persons. (3) Interventions such as the loss of personal freedoms, loss of earned privileges or denial of activities otherwise available to other persons shall be minimized and utilized only after the documented failure of the unit’s positive incentives for the individuals involved. (4) Facilities shall ensure that any verbal or written information provided to persons must be accessible in the language and terminology the person understands. Rulemaking Authority 394.457(5) FS. Law Implemented 394.459(2), (11) FS. History–New 11-29-98, Amended 4-4-05.