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deinstitutionalize
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de·in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize  (d-nst-tsh-n-lz, -ty-)
tr.v. de·in·sti·tu·tion·al·ized, de·in·sti·tu·tion·al·iz·ing, de·in·sti·tu·tion·al·iz·es
1. To remove the status of an institution from.
2. To release (a mental health patient, for example) from an institution for placement and care in the community.

de·insti·tution·al·i·zation (-l-zshn) n.


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There is a dissonance for the Chinese when Washington tells Beijing to institutionalize domestically even as Washington seems to be deinstitutionalizing internationally.
In retrospect, policymakers, clinicians, and rehabilitation professionals, in their zeal for deinstitutionalizing people with SMI, may not have grasped the complexities and difficulties that people with SMI experience when living in the community (Bachrach & Clark, 1996; Booth, 1993; Grob 1991, 1992; Klerman et al.
It is in the processes of dislocation, the deinstitutionalizing of life at different levels, that violence is deployed.
 
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