The Term Deinstitutionalization Refers To

question 193

Multiple Choice

The term deinstitutionalization refers to:

• A) moving mental patients from the prisons into mental hospitals
• B) the dramatic increase in the number of mental patients during the 1950s
• C) offering low-cost mental health care to a community
• D) releasing mental patients from mental hospitals and returning them to the community

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