Clients with severe mental illness often have great difficulty escaping homelessness. The most common reason for this cycle of homelessness is which of the following?
A) People with mental illness have less of a support system and difficulty obtaining employment.
B) Families experience severe stress and eventually abandon the role of caring for the mentally ill family member.
C) There is not enough security and supervision provided in institutional housing.
D) Caring for the homeless with mental illness depletes the resources of the health care system.
Ans: A
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Clients with serious mental illness have great difficulty escaping homelessness. Compared with those who are mentally healthy, people with psychiatric problems often are homeless for longer periods, have less contact with family, encounter more barriers to obtaining employment, display poorer physical health, and have more encounters with the legal system (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2006b).
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