Veterans Affairs Medical Center Mental Health and Behav Sciences

Veterans Affairs Medical Center Mental Health and Behav Sciences

Services:
Testing
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• HIV testing
• STD testing
• Laboratory testing
• TB screening
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

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

• Federal Government
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Ancillary Services

• Diet and exercise counseling
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Integrated primary care services
• Education services
• Legal advocacy
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Case management service
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Suicide prevention services
• Supported employment
• Intensive case management
• Family psychoeducation

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Activity therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Active duty military
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Veterans
• Seniors or older adults
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

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
• Substance use treatment

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Language Services

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

Pharmacotherapies

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

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Medicaid
• Medicare

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Emergency Mental Health Services

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