Exam 48: Sand Castles and Snake Pits

What was the effect of The Snake Pit on Americans' understanding of mental health?

Which public policy initiative set urban renewal in motion?

Name two ways to help deinstitutionalized patients make a more or less successful transition to life outside the hospital.

Briefly summarize patients' rights movements that began in the 1960s.

According to the author, which two pieces of legislation had the greatest impact on the homeless situation in America?

The problem of homelessness is best described as a product of ______.

Lillian Rubin, the author of this reading, was a well-known ______.

According to the author, the primary cause of social problems such as mental health and homelessness is ______.

Compared to the present, homelessness in earlier times was considered a(n) ______ phenomenon.

A mentally ill, homeless individual who receives treatment, stabilizes, and then returns to the community with no services, no follow-up, and no place to live is caught in the ______.

Define urban renewal. How did this negatively impact the poor?

Describe what happened to the Community Mental Health Centers Act.

Men from rural and urban communities who wandered from one part of the country to another in a fruitless search for work that did not exist were known as ______.

Explain the large structural forces that have changed the face of homelessness.

Which statement reflects the response of the executive director of the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Reform when asked about the mentally ill shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre?