deinstitutionalization (English, noun)
expansion: deinstitutionalization (usually uncountable, plural deinstitutionalizations)
Senses:
glosses: The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.
tags: uncountable
usually
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
qualifier: health care
glosses: 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).
tags: uncountable
usually
glosses: The process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained.
tags: uncountable
usually
glosses: The process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: deinstitutionalizations
tags: plural
form: deinstitutionalisation
tags: alternative