deinstitutionalization

== English == === Alternative forms === deinstitutionalisation (Commonwealth English) === Etymology === From deinstitutionalize + -ation. === Noun === deinstitutionalization (usually uncountable, plural deinstitutionalizations) The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm. (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). The process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained. Coordinate terms: institutionalization, reinstitutionalization The process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment. Coordinate terms: institutionalization, reinstitutionalization ==== Related terms ====