institutionalization

Making something official

Institutionalization is the process of establishing something as a norm, practice, or permanent feature of a system: the institutionalization of democratic values.

It also refers to placing someone in an institution—typically a psychiatric facility, prison, or long-term care home: Her mental health deteriorated to the point of institutionalization.

Extended institutional stays can produce psychological dependence on structured environments, making independent life difficult—itself sometimes called institutionalization.

bureaucratic

procedural

Following set steps

administrativeRelated to organization management
regulatoryInvolving official oversight
complianceAdhering to requirements

protocol · standardization · codification · formalization · governance · hierarchy · regimentation · accreditation · oversight · systematization

establishment

foundation

Underlying support structure

charterFounding organizational document
foundingCreating an organization originally
incorporationForming a legal entity

endowment · creation · organization · formalization · legitimization · recognition · enshrinement · codification · adoption · ratification

correctional

prison

Confinement for offenders

incarcerationConfinement in jail
detentionTemporary official holding
confinementState of being restricted

penitentiary · reformatory · inmate · custody · sentence · corrections · recidivism · rehabilitation · parole · reentry

rigidity

inflexibility

Quality of being unbending

entrenchmentFortified or fixed position
ossificationConversion to bone tissue
stagnationAbsence of flow or progress

conformity · dogmatism · orthodoxy · conventionalism · resistance · calcification · inertia · groupthink · homogenization · depersonalization

confinement

asylum

Shelter from persecution

psychiatricOf mental health treatment
commitmentFirm pledge to act
involuntaryNot under conscious control

detention · custody · ward · sanatorium · sectioning · admission · discharge · deinstitutionalization · long-term · residential

Categories

disabilitydisability rights, disability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity
social changecultural shift, social progress, social norms, cultural fusion, globalization
Psychiatry Critiqueanti-psychiatry, overmedicating, overdiagnosis, involuntary treatment, involuntary commitment
routineroutine, regularity, habit, pattern, daily routine
approvalapprove, approval rating, agree, accept, thumbs-up
Psychology HistoryFreud, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jung, William James

Opposites

formality and structure

institutionalizationinformality

Relaxed, unofficial tone

improvisation · spontaneity · disorganization · casualness · irregularity

establishment vs. dissolution

institutionalizationdeinstitutionalization

Releasing long-term patients systemwide

abolition · dismantling · dissolution · deregulation · disestablishment

CONFINEMENT (clinical sense)

institutionalizationdeinstitutionalization

Releasing long-term patients systemwide

independent living · release · discharge · mainstreaming · outpatient care

Family

institute, institution, constitution, destitute, prostitute, restitution, substitution, institutional, institutions

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