Mental Health Care in Schenectady, NY

Capital District Psychiatric Center

What Does Capital District Psychiatric Center Offer?

Capital District Psychiatric Center is a mental health facility at 738 State Street, Schenectady, New York, offering outpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare and state-financed insurance. Therapy approaches include CBT and DBT.

738 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12307

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Capital District Psychiatric Center

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

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

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

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

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

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

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported employment
  • Vocational rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in New York lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Capital District Psychiatric Center

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Schenectady mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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