Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center

Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center

Services:
Facility Vaping Policy
• Vaping not permitted

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

• State government

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Other State funds
• Private health insurance

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Intensive case management
• Illness management and recovery

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Activity therapy
• Group therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

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

• Outpatient
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Pharmacotherapies

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

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing