A community/public health nurse providing care for the mentally ill in the 1980s had difficulty finding funds to provide care for her clients. What was the end result of this lack of funding?
a. Many of the mentally ill died from lack of care and basic life necessities.
b. Most of the mentally ill returned to the large state institutions.
c. New, more progressive, modern state institutions were designed, built, and included community-based services.
d. Severely disabled clients remained in state institutions, and the less disabled clients used the services of community mental health centers.
Question 2
What major event related to the mental health care system occurred in the late 1980s?
a. The Reagan administration's Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act terminated funding specifically for community mental health services.
b. States refused to continue to be told how to spend their money by the federal level and refused to provide matching funds to community mental health centers.
c. The budget crisis resulted in less funding for mental health services on the federal level and more funding on the local level.
d. The President's Commission on Mental Health confirmed that community mental health centers were ineffective in meeting the needs of the patients.
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