Deinstitutionalization of chronically mentally ill individuals from public psychiatric hospitals increased the number of homeless persons. The original goal of deinstitutionalization was to
1. Reduce state costs of caring for the chronically mentally ill
2. Replace large state psychiatric hospitals with community-based treatment programs
3. Modernize psychiatric hospitals
4. Allow mentally ill persons to live on their own to test their life skills
ANS: 2
The original goal was to replace large psychiatric hospitals with community-based treatments centers. However, federal and state governments failed to allocate the needed funds.
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