The process of emptying state mental hospitals and placing mentally ill persons in the community is known as:
a. Recidivism
b. Exacerbation
c. Deinstitutionalism
d. Deinstitutionalization
D
State psychiatric hospitals discharge long-term patients into the community through a practice called deinstitutionalization. Recidivism refers to a pattern of short hospital admissions and discharges; and exacerbation is a period of dysfunction accompanied by an increase in the signs, symptoms, and seriousness of a problem.
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