What Was a Major Impetus for the Support of Deinstitutionalization

question 54

Multiple Choice

What was a major impetus for the support of deinstitutionalization?

• A) The finding that psychosurgical procedures like prefrontal lobotomy could return people to sanity
• B) The cases of Rennie v. Klein (1978) and Rogers v. Okin (1979)
• C) The passing of the "Guidelines on Institutional Care" by the American Psychological Association
• D) The notion that many mental hospitals were primarily "warehouses" that provided little benefit to patients

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