Mount Sinai Morningside Department of Psychiatry

Mount Sinai Morningside Department of Psychiatry

Services:
Age Groups Accepted
• Young Adults
• Seniors
• Adults
• Children/Adolescents

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

• Private non-profit organization

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

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
• Substance use treatment

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient

Language Services

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Treatment Approaches

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

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

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

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Ancillary Services

• Illness management and recovery
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Education services
• Family psychoeducation
• Integrated primary care services

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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