AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Three forces drove the movement of people with severe mental illness from hospitals into the community: the belief that mental hospitals were cruel and inhumane; the hope that new antipsychotic medications offered a cure; and the desire to save money [8].

Detailed explanation-2: -The problem is that the biomedical model fails to see illness as a matter of the whole person, in that it overlooks the importance of social, lifestyle and psychological factors in the onset of complex and chronic disorders.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rather, they described “institutionalization” as a chronic biopsychosocial state brought on by incarceration and characterized by anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, and a disabling combination of social withdrawal and/or aggression.