Deinstitutionalization was a reform advanced by mental health care professionals and social welfare activists in the 1960s and 1970s to release
A) chronic mental patients from privately run mental hospitals.
B) parents of children with chronic mental health issues from the burden of paying solely for long-term institutionalized care.
C) some dangerous criminals from jails to state-run mental hospitals.
D) chronic mental patients from state-run mental hospitals.

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Deinstitutionalization was meant to release chronic mental patients from state-run mental hospitals and transition them into community-based care. This was a response to the poor treatment and conditions of many mental hospitals, as well as concerns about civil liberties violations and the high cost of institutionalization.

Deinstitutionalization Was a Reform Advanced by Mental Health Care Professionals