A patient was just released from a psychiatric hospital where he has spent the last five years. A social worker spends some time trying to help him prepare for what she calls stigma. What was the focus of these sessions?
a. negative attitudes that result in various forms of discrimination
b. the tendency for most mental patients to cease taking their medications
c. the tendency for the public to provide too much assistance to former mental patients
d. a government effort to assist former mental patients by providing group living arrangements
Answer: a.
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