Chapter 6 – Adult Classification

62090.14 Preparation of Clinical Reports by Counselors

• There may be occasions when large numbers of psychiatric referrals and limited psychiatric staff may require that qualified CCCorrectional Counselor-IIs prepare clinical reports, in lieu of psychiatric evaluations, for selected cases and under supervision of a Board certified psychiatrist or licensed psychologist.

• The format for psychiatric evaluations shall be used by the counselor except the title of these reports shall be changed to “clinical evaluation.” Those areas of the format that call for psychiatric diagnosis and psychiatric conclusions shall be changed to indicate personality description and conclusion(s).

• Counselors shall not prepare nor sign as its originator any report/evaluation that implies by its title or description that it was prepared by a psychiatrist or psychologist.

• A psychiatrist/psychologist shall not sign as their own report, a report bearing a psychiatric title or description which was prepared by a counselor, without having personally interviewed the inmate.