Halifax Health Adult Psychiatry

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Private health insurance
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• County or local government funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Type of Care

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

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Children/Adolescents
• Young Adults

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

• Local, county, or community government

Ancillary Services

• Legal advocacy
• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Family psychoeducation
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Case management service

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Chlorpromazine
• Aripiprazole
• Olanzapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Clozapine

Treatment Approaches

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital