What was Dorothea Dix's major contribution to the treatment of the mentally ill?

a) She encouraged the founding of mental hospitals.
b) She classified the major symptoms of depression and mania.
c) She developed the diagnostic system that is still used today.
d) She insisted that the mentally ill would receive better care if allowed to live at home with their families.


a

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