A Patient Was Just Released from a Psychiatric Hospital Where

question 7

Multiple Choice

A patient was just released from a psychiatric hospital where he has spent the last five years. A social worker spends some time trying to help him prepare for what she calls stigma. What was the focus of these sessions?

• A) negative attitudes that result in various forms of discrimination
• B) the tendency for most mental patients to cease taking their medications
• C) the tendency for the public to provide too much assistance to former mental patients
• D) a government effort to assist former mental patients by providing group living arrangements

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