The Rationale Behind Deinstitutionalization Was ________

question 77

Multiple Choice

The rationale behind deinstitutionalization was ________

• A) a belief that physicians could better medicate and give physical treatment to patients in their own homes.
• B) a concern that prolonged hospitalization could keep patients from being able to adjust to and function in the outside world.
• C) a belief that most mental patients were faking and would cease to do so if they were not "rewarded" by allowing them to stay in the hospital.
• D) a concern that mental hospitals were such unpleasant places that for mental patients, living on their own could only be better.

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