Capital District Psychiatric Center Schenectady Community Support Center

Capital District Psychiatric Center Schenectady Community Support Center

Services:
Type of Care
• Mental health treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicare

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Ancillary Services

• Supported employment
• Suicide prevention services
• Assisted Outpatient Treatment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Case management service

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Cognitive remediation therapy
• Individual psychotherapy

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Pharmacotherapies

• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Clozapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Chlorpromazine
• Paliperidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Risperidone
• Prochlorperazine
• Aripiprazole
• Quetiapine
• Perphenazine
• IIoperidone
• Fluphenazine
• Haloperidol
• Olanzapine

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• State government

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Language Services

• Spanish

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling