In the early 1960s, a committee appointed by President John F. Kennedy recommended the development of a new approach to the way mental health care was administered, with an emphasis on the introduction of:
a. Psychotherapeutic drugs
b. State mental health care systems
c. Community mental health centers
d. Deinstitutionalization of patients
C
The emergence of community mental health centers was necessary, in part because of the massive deinstitutionalization of patients from state mental health care facilities after the introduction of psychotherapeutic drugs in the 1950s.
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A) medication B) ointments C) fluids D) nourishment
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A. mental depression. B. suicidal ideation. C. depression of the cardiovascular system. D. neuropsychiatric effects such as hostility.