Why do many psychiatric patients have impaired social interactions, decision making, and lack of life skills when discharged from the large state mental hospitals?
A. Had families who had not socialized them appropriately.
B. Had heard nurses tell them too often that they were incompetent and incapable.
C. Lacked the ability to learn how to behave in front of others.
D. Were accustomed to having needs met and decisions made by the setting.
ANS: D
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