Deinstitutionalization:

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Deinstitutionalization was a movement in the 1960s and 1970s aimed at returning patients with mental disorders to their communities. The focus was on providing community-based care and treatment options rather than housing patients in large, centralized state mental hospitals. While it did not reduce the number of people in state mental hospitals significantly, it did pave the way for increased community care options. Deinstitutionalization was not limited to people with schizophrenia and included individuals with a variety of mental health conditions.