(de·in·sti·tu·tion·al·i·za·tion) NOUN: The release (of a person with a psychiatric disability, for example) from an institution for placement and care in the community. Also the movement, begun in the 1960s with the public exposure of horrific conditions, to end the practice of confining people with psychiatric and cognitive disabilities in large, impersonal, and often abusive institutions.
the movement toward treating people with psychological disorders in community settings instead of mental hospitals. 543
The increasing tendency for treatment to take place in the community, perhaps on an outpatient basis, rather than having patients reside in a public institution, such as a provincial mental hospital.
The transfer of former mental patients from institutions into the community deinstitutionalization (135.0K)
Both a policy and a practice, this movement that began in the 1960s has reduced the number of people living in state-operated institutions and increased the number of people receiving support in their communities.
Removing the needy from residential facilities and placing them in the community. Reduction in the size of populations held in institutions of involuntary confinement, primarily mental hospitals and prisons. This movement began in the 1970s and was very successful in reducing the size of mental hospitals.
A policy that calls for the provision of supportive care and treatment for medically and socially dependent individuals in the community rather than an institutional setting.
The transition of persons with disabilities, living in public institutions, into community-based facilities or homes of their choice.
A movement intended to obtain better and less expensive care for chronically mentally ill patients in their own communities rather than at large, centralized hospitals.
The movement of persons out of institutional settings and into community settings.
