2020 NABITA Whitepaper: Standards for Case Management

The field of behavioral intervention has continued to grow and evolve, as has the field of case management. Increasingly, more teams have a full-time case manager, and case management as a process and/or a position has been established as a standard of practice for BITs (NABITA Advisory Board, 2018). As with any new field, it is important to establish guiding principles that create a standardized framework for understanding how the work is done. While non-clinical case managers in the higher education setting have relied upon existing standards from related fields such as social work, student affairs, college student personnel, and counseling, the field has evolved to the point of needing its own unique standards of practice. NABITA’s goal for creating the Standards of Practice for Non-Clinical Case Managers is to provide quality recommendations and guidelines for the field of case management in a college or university setting.