Discuss the deinstitutionalization movement and its impact on mental health care in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
Key terms and concepts that may be included in student responses:
? Drug therapy
? Patient's rights movements
? Community mental-health movement
? Community mental-health centers, halfway houses, day treatment centers
? Impact-decline in the number of patients in state psychiatric hospitals, better quality of life for patients, freedom
? Problems-lack of resources, closure of hospitals, transfer of patients to ill-equipped nursing homes, increase of homeless persons with mental illnesses
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a. 44/50 b. 44/60 c. 6/60 d. 16/50
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