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'deinstitutionalization' is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to the process of removing patients or individuals from large institutions, such as mental hospitals, and supporting them in smaller community-based settings. One example of using 'deinstitutionalization' in a sentence could be: "The government's deinstitutionalization policy aims to shift resources from large psychiatric hospitals to community-based mental health services."
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deinstitutionalization
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The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm
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The publicized emphases on alternatives in lifestyle and on deinstitutionalization were ultimately, in their extreme form, destructive to public education.
He was a proponent of normalization, deinstitutionalization, inclusive schooling, and self-determination, and many considered him the "grandfather of the self-advocacy movement".
Indeed, in the view of experts on public psychiatry like Dr. Jeffrey Geller of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, cost-shifting has been "the major driving force" behind deinstitutionalization, "with the philosophy a tag-on".
The fiscal squeeze has highlighted the inadequacy of community services to accommodate deinstitutionalization, and waiting lists have grown steadily in many states.
"They were the most entrepreneurial folks that I ever met," said Barbara B. Blum, who was in charge of the deinstitutionalization effort for New York.
It has been 50 years since deinstitutionalization became the way we dealt with the mentally ill.
The state and federal rules around mental illness are built upon a delusion: that the sickest among us should always be in control of their own treatment, and that deinstitutionalization is the more humane route.
"It was also very important in deinstitutionalization, showing that you could teach the kinds of skills that the kids needed to succeed at home and in the community".
But the deinstitutionalization model that followed that dumped people out with no follow-up was in some cases worse than being institutionalized.
The institutions have survived a 40-year deinstitutionalization effort in part because officials have argued that they need a place to house the most frail or physically unruly residents.
Over the passing decades it survived, even as its population dwindled, despite findings of inadequate care and suspicious deaths and the waves of deinstitutionalization that emptied out other hospitals.
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