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Title: The concept of the comprehensive community mental-health center that returned clients who were ...
Post by: ZN on Jan 20, 2018
The concept of the comprehensive community mental-health center that returned clients who were mentally ill from institutions to their community was based on recommendations made in which document?
 
  a. Action for Mental Health
  b. National Mental Health Act
  c. Social Security Act
  d. Public Law 88-164


Title: The concept of the comprehensive community mental-health center that returned clients who were ...
Post by: Carrie C234 on Jan 20, 2018
A
The NIMH document Action for Mental Health emphasized the need for better training for caregivers, early intensive treatment for those who were acutely ill, and improvements in education and research of mental illness. President John F. Kennedy appointed a cabinet-level committee to review the report and to make recommendations. By 1963, the concept of comprehensive community mental health centers was born.