Individuals with chronic mental illness frequently have a ...

[Mr.Thesaxman]

Individuals with chronic mental illness frequently have a difficult time breaking the cycle of homelessness.
 
  The social factor that most contributes to the breakdown in the effectiveness of mental health care services for the homeless mentally ill involves:
  A) Frustration and exhaustion of the family support system
  B) Continued cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
  C) The lack of judgment and self-care skills associated with mental illness
  D) The policy of deinstitutionalizat ion

Question 2

Many people in the United States are very close to being in a homeless situation at any given time. Which of the following clients would be at highest risk for becoming homeless?
 
  A) A retired couple receiving Social Security and Medicare
  B) A veteran living in a veteran's home
  C) A migrant farm worker living with his family
  D) An estranged teenager working at a fast food restaurant

[ebenov]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
Feedback:
Because of problems in the implementation of deinstitutionalizat ion, a new generation of severely mentally ill people have spent only brief times in hospitals, face a shortage of affordable housing, and experience a greater severity of illness than do mentally ill people in general. As a result, these noninstitutionalize d, often younger mentally ill people are joining the ranks of the homeless. Their treatment usually demonstrates a common pattern. They are referred to community treatment yet often do not follow through and thus decompensate, perhaps resulting in hospitalization. Frequently, they are discharged from the hospital without full stabilization of their symptoms, returning to a stressful environment without the needed structure and support and thus resuming the pattern.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
Feedback:
The homeless population encompasses a diverse array of people. Included are disabled or chronically ill people whose benefits do not provide for permanent housing; people on fixed incomes who cannot afford housing; veterans estranged from their support systems; street youth whose families have rejected them; documented and undocumented immigrants; those incarcerated in the criminal justice system; and unemployed and underemployed people who work but do not earn enough to pay ongoing housing costs. The teenager mentioned here likely has the fewest social, family, governmental, and financial resources.

[Mr.Thesaxman]

Correct answers!

[ebenov]

Great! Please up vote