The community mental health nurse planning programs for care of clients with severe and persis-tent mental illness points out to the interdisciplinary team that the similarities
between young adults with severe and persistent mental illness and clients institutionalized with severe and persistent mental illness include:
1. High levels of internal control
2. Excessive drug and alcohol abuse
3. Readiness to take psychotropic medication
4. Less overt, milder forms of mental illness
ANS: 2
It is thought that both groups abuse alcohol and other drugs as a means of self-medicating. 1. Both groups have low impulse control. 3. Both groups rarely take psychotropic medications. 4. Both groups have severe, overt disorders.
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