Michigan law allows minors aged 14 and older to seek and receive outpatient mental health services without parental consent or knowledge, with limited exceptions for compelling safety disclosures. Services are capped at 12 sessions or 4 months per request, after which the provider must either terminate services or obtain parental consent to continue. Parents are not financially liable for services obtained by the minor under this provision, and mandatory child abuse/neglect reporting obligations remain in effect.
View official sourceMCL - Section 330.1707 Download Section Chapter 330 Act 258 of 1974 258-1974-7 Previous Section Next Section MENTAL HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT) Act 258 of 1974 330.1707 Rights of minor. Sec. 707. (1) A minor 14 years of age or older may request and receive mental health services and a mental health professional may provide mental health services, on an outpatient basis, excluding pregnancy termination referral services and the use of psychotropic drugs, without the consent or knowledge of the minor's parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the minor's parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis shall not be informed of the services without the consent of the minor unless the mental health professional treating the minor determines that there is a compelling need for disclosure based on a substantial probability of harm to the minor or to another individual, and if the minor is notified of the mental health professional's intent to inform the minor's parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis. (2) Services provided to a minor under this section shall, to the extent possible, promote the minor's relationship to the parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis, and shall not undermine the values that the parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis has sought to instill in the minor. (3) Services provided to a minor under this section shall be limited to not more than 12 sessions or 4 months per request for services. After the twelfth session or fourth month of services the mental health professional shall terminate the services or, with the consent of the minor, notify the parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis to obtain consent to provide further outpatient services. (4) The minor's parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis is not liable for the costs of services that are received by a minor under subsection (1). (5) This section does not relieve a mental health professional from his or her duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect under section 3 of the child protection law, Act No. 238 of the Public Acts of 1975, being section 722.623 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. History: Add. 1984, Act 186, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1984 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 290, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996