Charleston/Dorchester MH Center Charleston Clinic

Charleston/Dorchester MH Center Charleston Clinic

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Young adults
• Seniors or older adults
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
• Crisis intervention team

Ancillary Services

• Integrated primary care services
• Assertive community treatment
• Supported employment
• Education services
• Family psychoeducation
• Supported housing
• Case management service
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• County or local government funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Other State funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State education agency funds
• Medicare
• Community Mental Health Block Grants

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

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Facility Type

• Community mental health center

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Children/Adolescents
• Seniors

Treatment Approaches

• Group therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Individual psychotherapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Pharmacotherapies

• Asenapine
• Quetiapine
• Prochlorperazine
• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Pimozide
• Clozapine
• Haloperidol
• Lurasidone
• IIoperidone
• Trifluoperazine
• Olanzapine
• Ziprasidone
• Fluphenazine
• Paliperidone
• Cariprazine
• Brexpiprazole
• Thioridazine
• Perphenazine
• Aripiprazole
• Thiothixene
• Chlorpromazine
• Loxapine

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

• State government

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support