deinstitutionalization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.
The process of converting daily care for intellectually disabled people and mental health care for psychiatric patients from an institution-based model (focused largely on sequestering them in mental hospitals) to a community-based model (in which they live in small group homes or private residences to the greatest feasible extent).
The process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained.
The process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment.

deinstitutionalization deinstitutionalizations deinstitutionalisation

From deinstitutionalize + -ation.

deinstitutionalize institutionalize reinstitutionalize

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