Goals of psychiatric home care include all of the following except
1. Monitoring medication compliance, effectiveness, and side effects.
2. Promoting the client's adjustment to the community and home.
3. Providing ongoing individual counseling and psychotherapy.
4. Providing in-home respite services to the client's family.
5. Reducing the need for hospitalization or rehospitalization of clients in psychological crisis.
ANS: 3
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