A shift in the psychiatric nursing focus during the community mental health period of the 1960s resulted in
a. disillusionment with the high numbers of people seeking treatment.
b. focusing more attention on complications associated with substance abuse.
c. spending more time providing services to persons with serious mental illness.
d. shifting focus away from the most acutely ill and to persons with a perceived greater potential for improvement.
D
The community mental health movement brought with it a broadening of areas of concern to the psychiatric nurse. It became acceptable, even desirable, for psychiatric nurses to focus on what was called the worried well, as opposed to providing care for acutely ill psychotic individuals. Neither disillusionment with the numbers seeking treatment nor providing more services to those with severe mental illness occurred.
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