deinstitutionalization

Noun

 * 1) The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.
 * The government began the deinstitutionalization of background checks for certain Federal jobs.
 * 1)  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).
 * 2) The process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained.
 * The deinstitutionalization of minor offenders helps reduce prison overcrowding.
 * 1) The process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment.
 * After thirty years in the asylum, deinstitutionalization would present many problems.
 * 1) The process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment.
 * After thirty years in the asylum, deinstitutionalization would present many problems.
 * After thirty years in the asylum, deinstitutionalization would present many problems.