To establish programs to support caregivers of clients with severe and persistent mental illness, the community mental health nurse should focus primarily on:
1. Staff of halfway houses
2. Foster care families
3. Clients' families of origin
4. Residential managers of low-rent apartments
ANS: 3
Most severely and persistently mentally ill clients live with their families. The other options list living arrangements for small parts of this group but not for the majority.
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