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: -Directors of institutions also reported admission due to orphanhood, abandonment, parents’ inability to take care of their children, social stigma, and court decisions requiring institutionalization.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.