deinstitutionalization
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- deinstitutionalisation (Commonwealth English)
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
deinstitutionalization (usually uncountable, plural deinstitutionalizations)
- The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.
- The government began the deinstitutionalization of background checks for certain Federal jobs.
- (health care, psychiatry) 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).
- By the 1970s, calls for deinstitutionalization had grown strong enough to yield systemic changes.
- The process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained.
- Coordinate terms: institutionalization, reinstitutionalization
- The deinstitutionalization of minor offenders helps reduce prison overcrowding.
- The process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment.
- Coordinate terms: institutionalization, reinstitutionalization
- After thirty years in the asylum, deinstitutionalization would present many problems.