desinstitucionalização

Also known as deinstitutionalization, dehospitalization

thumb|right|250px|The former St Elizabeth's Hospital in 2006, closed and boarded up. Located in [[Washington D.C., the hospital had been one of the sites of the Rosenhan experiment in the 1970s.]] Deinstitutionalisation (or deinstitutionalization) is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability. In the 1950s and 1960s, it led to the closure of many psychiatric hospitals, as patients were increasingly cared for at home, in halfway houses, group homes, and clinic