Advocates Community Counseling Harvard - Harvard Massachusetts

Types of Care at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Settings at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• outpatient treatment
• regular outpatient treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Personal physician/health care provider

Pharmacotherapies at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Medications for psychiatric disorders

Treatment Approaches at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• anger management
• brief intervention
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• contingency management/motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling
• trauma-related counseling

FacilityOwnership at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• State substance abuse agency
• State department of health
• State mental health department
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
• Council on Accreditation

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Federal funding
• Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• teenagers
• transitional age young adults
• adult women
• adult men
• veterans
• court/judicial system clients
• people with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders
• sexual abuse victims
• people with trauma

Assessment/Pre-treatment at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use

Transitional Services at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Outcome follow-up after discharge

Ancillary Services at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• mental health services
• social skills development

Other Addictions Treatment at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Treatment for non-substance use addiction disorder
• Treatment for gambling disorder

Counseling Services and Education at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• individual counseling
• group counseling
• family counseling
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education

Tobacco/Screening Services at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Smoking not permitted

Gender Accepted at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• women
• men

Exclusive Services at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients

Services for deaf at Advocates Community Counseling Harvard

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing are available