The principal functions of the mental health centers, as outlined in the 1961 Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health report, are all of the following except:

a) To provide treatment by a basic mental health team for persons with acute illness.
b) To provide social activities and job training to those with chronic and severe mental
illness or physical disabilities.
c) To care for incompletely recovered mental patients either short of admission to a
hospital or following discharge from the hospital.
d) To provide a headquarters base for mental health consultants working with mental
health counselors.


B

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