The nurse assigned to assertive community treatment (ACT) should explain the program's treatment goal as:
A) assisting patients to maintain abstinence from alcohol and other substances of abuse.
B) providing structure and a therapeutic milieu for mentally ill patients whose symptoms require stabilization.
C) maintaining medications and stable psychiatric status for incarcerated inmates who have a history of mental illness.
D) providing services for mentally ill individuals who require intensive treatment to continue to live in the community.
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