Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
institutionalization
1911, from institutionalize + -ation.
Wiktionary
institutionalization
n. 1 (anchor: 1)the process of establishing a practice as a norm 2 (anchor: 2)the process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital
Wikipedia
Institutionalization (disambiguation)
Institutionalize and related word forms may refer to:
- Placing someone in a psychiatric hospital ( voluntary or involuntary commitment)
- "Institutionalized" may mean having the institutional syndrome, the psychological and mental health effects of living for a long time in an institution or similar
- Institutionalisation in sociology.
- In business administration, institutionalization means that a company can survive and function without its founders
Usage examples of "institutionalization".
Though Catholic adoption services took considerable care in the placement of children, they were not pointlessly slow and obstructive, as were public agencies, especially when the would-be adopters were solid members of the community like Hatch and Lindsey, and when the adoptee was a disabled child with no option except continued institutionalization.