This section specifies staff requirements and qualifications for personnel delivering group services within an Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) agency in Pennsylvania. It requires that a graduate-level professional meeting specified behavior consultation, mobile therapy, or behavior analytic qualifications be present, and permits additional group service delivery by staff meeting BHT or BHT-ABA qualifications. Agencies offering specialized therapies (e.g., music, dance, play, occupational) within group services must use clinically certified or appropriately credentialed staff for those modalities.
View official source55 Pa. Code § 5240.91 - Staff requirements and qualifications for group services State Regulations Compare (a) In addition to the staff required under § 5240.11 (relating to staff requirements), an IBHS agency that provides group services shall have a graduate-level professional who meets one of the following qualifications: (1) The qualifications to provide behavior consultation services in § 5240.71 (a) (relating to staff qualifications for individual services). (2) The qualifications to provide mobile therapy services in § 5240.71 (c) . (3) The qualifications to provide behavior analytic services in § 5240.81 (d) (relating to staff qualifications for ABA services). (4) The qualifications to provide behavior consultation-ABA services in § 5240.81 (e) . (b) Group services may also be provided by an individual who meets one of the following: (1) The qualifications to provide BHT services in § 5240.71 (d) . (2) The qualifications to provide BHT-ABA services in § 5240.81 (g) . (c) An IBHS agency that provides group services that include specialized therapies such as music, dance and movement, play or occupational therapies shall use clinical staff to provide the specialized therapies who meet one of the following: (1) Are Nationally certified or licensed in this Commonwealth in the specific therapy. (2) Are graduate-level professionals with a minimum of 12 graduate-level credit hours in the specialized therapy and a minimum of 1 year of supervised experience in the use of the specialized therapy technique. Notes 55 Pa. Code § 5240.91 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare. No prior version found. State Regulations Toolbox