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D. the increasingly larger numbers of advanced practice nurses prepared to care for the mentally ill in the community.

At the time the community mental health movement began, relatively few advanced practice psychiatric nurses were practicing, and fewer still who were prepared to care for the mentally ill in the community.Text page: 87

D. Nurses

Nurses are the only caregivers listed who can provide both physical and psychological care for mental health clients.Text page: 91

C. The client is able to return home each day.

Movement along the continuum is fluid, from higher to lower levels of intensity, and changes are not necessarily step by step. On discharge from acute hospital care or a 24-hour supervised crisis bed, many clients need intensive services to maintain their initial gains or to "step down" in care. Multiple studies show that failure to follow up in outpatient treatment increases the likelihood of rehospitalization and other adverse outcomes.Text page: 93

B. Providing stress reduction seminars at the local senior center

Primary prevention is directed at healthy individuals with the purpose of preventing mental illness.Text page: 88

B. Providing mental health care on an outpatient basis in order to maintain the client as a member of an established community

Community mental health centers were created as a result of the 1963 Community Mental Health Centers Act for the purpose of providing mental health services while maintaining the client in his own community.Text page: 88

A. arranging for the services of an interpreter and cultural consultant.

Use of a translator is helpful with language and with gaining explanations of culture as it might affect health care.Text page: 97

A. frequent assessment for physical illness both acute and chronic in mature

Repeated studies have shown the people with mental illnesses also have a higher risk for medical disorder than the general populationText page: 90