Regarding Mental Hospitalization, Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 391

Multiple Choice

Regarding mental hospitalization, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Without hospitalization, people with drug addictions may find it nearly impossible to resist the temptation for drug abuse in their daily lives.
• B) It is preferable to have the hospitalization occur in a large state mental hospital rather than psychiatric units of general hospitals.
• C) Most psychiatric patients do as well with partial hospitalization as they do with full hospitalization.
• D) In most cases of mental illness, hospitalizations are best used as a last resort after other forms of treatment in the community have been exhausted.

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