Author Question: Critics of deinstitutionalization complain that contemporary public mental hospitals are like a. ... (Read 89 times)

stephzh · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Critics of deinstitutionalizat ion complain that contemporary public mental hospitals are like

a. country clubs, high in cost and providing too many amenities.
b. warehouses, storing patients away without helping them.
c. maximum-security jails, taking inmates in for life sentences.
d. revolving doors, repeatedly admitting patients and rapidly discharging them. e. human snakepits, keeping patients in conditions that are deplorable.

Question 2

All but which of the following has limited the effectiveness of deinstitutionalizat ion?

a. the lack of comprehensive community programs
b. cracks in the system that leave patients to fend for themselves c. court decisions that reversed the policy of deinstitutionalizat ion d. the problem of psychiatric homelessness
e. the use of mental hospitals as revolving doors