Section 299.120  Definitions

 

            "Act" means the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act [725 ILCS 207].

 

            "Act of sexual violence" means an act or attempted act that is a basis for an allegation made in a petition under of Section 15(b)(1) of the Act.

 

            "Behavior Committee" means the resident's primary therapist, a security representative and at least one other member of the resident's treatment team.

 

            "Behavioral restriction" means the withdrawal of positive incentives (e.g., restrictions of privileges and liberties) as a consequence to inappropriate behavior.

 

            "Body search" means the removal and search of all outer garments such as coats, jackets, sweaters covering shirts, shoes, hats and gloves and a pat down of the person subsequent to removal of the outer garments.

 

            "Chief Administrative Officer" means the highest ranking official (i.e., warden) of a correctional facility where a secure residential facility is located, or that person's designee.

 

            "Clinical Director" means the Associate Director for Clinical Services for the Division of Disability and Behavioral Health Services of the Department, or that person's designee.

 

            "Committed person" means a person who has been committed by the court as a sexually violent person.

 

            "Contraband" means items that are proscribed by criminal law, departmental or facility rules or posted notices; items that a resident has no authorization to possess; or property that is in excess of that authorized by the facility.

 

            "Corporal punishment" means physical contact intended to inflict pain for purposes of punishment.

 

            "Correctional facility" means that correctional facility where a secure residential facility is located.

 

            "Department" means the Department of Human Services.

 

            "Detained person" means a person who the court has sent to a detention facility, approved by the Department, pursuant to a detention order or after a probable cause hearing under Section 30 of the Act.

 

            "Force" means physical contact used to coerce or prevent some action on the part of a resident.

 

            "Immediate family" means the spouse, child, parent or sibling(s) of the resident.

 

            "Individual services plan" means a plan of treatment individualized for each resident that is formulated and periodically reviewed by the treatment team.

 

            "Management status" means the provision of different levels of privileges, responsibilities and activities to provide a greater degree of individualization in the treatment of residents (e.g., admission status, secure management status, general status, high privilege status).

 

            "Mental disorder" means a congenital or acquired condition affecting the emotional or volitional capacity that predisposes a person to engage in acts of sexual violence.

 

            "Physician" means any person licensed by the State of Illinois to practice medicine in all its branches and includes any person holding a temporary license, as provided in the Medical Practice Act of 1987.  Physician includes a psychiatrist as defined in this Section.

 

            "Primary therapist" means the clinical staff person responsible for implementing the resident's treatment plan.

 

            "Program" means the Sexually Violent Persons Program.

 

            "Program Administrator" means the person responsible for the Department's Sexually Violent Persons Treatment Program, or that person's designee.

 

            "Program Director" means the highest ranking official of a secure residential facility, or that person's designee.

 

            "Psychiatrist" means a physician who has at least 3 years of formal training or primary experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

 

            "Psychologist" means a person who is licensed under the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act.

 

            "Psychotropic medication" means medication whose use for antipsychotic, antidepressant, antimanic, antianxiety, antiandrogenic, behavior modification or behavioral management purposes is listed in the Physician's Desk Reference, 1999 edition, or that are administered for any of these purposes.  It also includes those tests and related procedures that are essential for the safe and effective administration of a psychotropic medication.

 

            "Qualified professional" means a physician, psychiatrist or psychologist, with at least two years of experience in the treatment and evaluation of persons who have committed acts of sexual violence.

 

            "Resident" means  either a detained person or a committed sexually violent person placed in a facility.

 

            "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department of Human Services, or that person's designee.

 

            "Secure residential facility" or "facility" refers to the program  operated by the Department within the building supplied by the Illinois Department of Corrections in accord with Section 50 of the Act.

 

            "Strip search" means the removal or arrangement of some or all of a person's clothing so as to permit a visual inspection of the body or undergarments of such person.

 

            "Transferring authority" means the agency with jurisdiction, as defined in Section 10 of the Act, that had custody and control of the person prior to detention under the Act.

 

            "Treatment" means an effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental disorder of a committed person.  This includes, but is not limited to, individual and group therapy, behavior modification programs, and medication.

 

            "Treatment Review Committee" means the committee appointed by the Program Administrator for the review of orders of the administration of psychotropic medications.

 

            "Treatment team" or "team" means a cross functional, multi-disciplinary group composed, at a minimum, of the resident's primary therapist, a medical representative, a security representative, a recreation therapist or substance abuse counselor, and a psychologist.

 

            "Victim" means a person against whom an act of sexual violence has been committed.