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2125004343 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Since deinstitutionalizat ion began, huge numbers of former mental patients have been discharged from psychiatric facilities. It appears that possibly millions of them ____.

a. no longer need treatment but remain unemployed
b. have found ways to become employed and to overcome their mental illnesses
c. are now in high-quality nursing homes and group residences
d. are severely disabled, and are homeless

Question 2

What was a major impetus for the support of deinstitutionalizat ion?

a. The funding for community programs, which made it possible for mental patients to be treated in a less restrictive environment closer to their homes
b. The cases of Rennie v. Klein (1978) and Rogers v. Okin (1979)
c. The passing of the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists by the American Psychological Association (2003)
d. The notion that many mental hospitals were primarily warehouses for the insane that provided little benefit to patients