deinstitutionalization

  1. Noun.  the process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.
  2. Noun.  the process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained.
  3. Noun.  the process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment.

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