The impetus for deinstitutionalization in the arena of mental health services derived from all of the following except ___.

A. the press for economic efficiency
B. humanitarian concerns about the effects of institutionalization
C. refinement of psychotropic drugs
D. well-developed community-based services for persons with chronic mental illness


D. well-developed community-based services for persons with chronic mental illness

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a. understand b. see c. develop d. only a and b e. all the above

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assisting chronically mentally ill persons, frail elderly people, or persons with disabilities to obtain needed resources is the A. MSW clinical social worker. B. MSW. C. BSW. D. preprofessional.

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