ALL BUT WHICH of the following factors played a role in reducing the population of mental hospitals after the mid-1950s?

a. a more liberal discharge philosophy
b. the advent of psychotropic drugs, including antipsychotic medications
c. a lack of trained therapists within the hospitals
d. the widespread acceptance/use of the DSM


D

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