What led to changes in the way mental health services were planned beginning in the 1990s?

A. Communities began banding together to demand increased funding from the federal budget.
B. Psychiatrists finally were given some power to speak for their patients in policy development.
C. Psychiatric patients and their families organized and become involved in policy development.
D. States finally convinced the federal level that they could not cope with the demands.


ANS: C

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