Institutional syndrome

(noun)

In clinical and abnormal psychology, institutional syndrome refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills, which develop after a person has spent a long period living in mental hospitals, prisons, or other remote institutions.

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Examples of Institutional syndrome in the following topics:

  • Institutionalized Children

    • Institutionalized children may develop institutional syndrome, which refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills.
    • In clinical and abnormal psychology, institutional syndrome refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills, which develop after a person has spent a long period living in mental hospitals, prisons, or other remote institutions.
    • The term institutionalization can be used both in regard to the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to institutional syndrome; thus a person being "institutionalized" may mean either that he/she has been placed in an institution, or that he/she is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an institution for an extended period of time.
    • Deinstitutionalization can have multiple definitions; the first focuses on reducing the population size of mental institutions.
    • This can be accomplished by releasing individuals from institutions, shortening the length of stays, and reducing both admissions and readmission.

  • The Experience of Illness

    • Sometimes the term is used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, infections, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function.
    • The National Institute for Mental Health reports that over 40 million adults are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in a given year, accounting for 18 percent of the population.

  • Social Institutions

    • Institutions can be either formal or informal.
    • However, formal institutions do not have to have the force of the law at their disposal.
    • Institutions can also be abstract, such as the institution of marriage.
    • While institutions tend to appear to people in society as part of the natural, unchanging landscape of their lives, sociological studies of institutions reveal institutions a social constructs, meaning that they are created by individuals and particular historical and cultural moment.
    • The social function of the institution is the fulfillment of the assigned roles.

  • Resocialization and Total Institutions

    • A total institution is a place where a group of people is cut off from the wider community and their needs are under bureaucratic control.
    • Within a total institution, the basic needs of a entire bloc of people are under bureaucratic control.
    • Institutions established to care for harmless or incapable people, including orphanages, poor houses and nursing homes
    • First, the staff of the institution tries to erode the residents' identities and independence.
    • Review Goffman's five types of social institutions and their functions, including their processes of resocialization

  • The Middle Years

    • Advanced maternal age increases the risk of a child being born with some disorders, such as Down syndrome.
    • Advanced paternal age sharply increases the risk of miscarriage, as well as Down syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, and bipolar disorder.

  • The Functionalist Perspective

    • Because social institutions are functionally integrated to form a stable system, a change in one institution will precipitate a change in other institutions.
    • Functionalists analyze social institutions in terms of the function they play.
    • In the functionalist perspective, society and its institutions are the primary units of analysis.
    • Following functionalist logic, if a social institution exists, it must serve a function.
    • Institutions, however, change over time; some disappear and others come into being.

  • Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination

    • These practices are embedded in the operating procedures, policies, laws, or objectives of large organizations, such as governments and corporations, financial institutions, public institutions and other large entities.
    • Though direct discrimination is illegal by United States law, many academics, activists, and advocacy organizations assert that indirect discrimination is still pervasive in many social institutions and daily social practices.
    • Institutionalized discrimination often exists within governments, though it can also occur in any other type of social institution, including religion, education and marriage.
    • Examine the legal cases that had an impact on institutional discrimination

  • The Conflict Perspective on Deviance

    • Foucault theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.
    • In conflict theory, deviant behaviors are actions that do not comply with social institutions.
    • He also theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.
    • Institutions of knowledge, norms, and values, are in place to categorize and control humans.
    • The French philosopher Michel Foucault theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.

  • Microfinancing

    • The Grameen Bank is an example of a microfinance institution.
    • An important source of detailed data on microfinance institutions is the MicroBanking Bulletin, which is published by the Microfinance Information Exchange.
    • That being said, the annual rates charged to clients were higher, because these rates included local inflation and the bad debt expenses of the microfinance institution.
    • In his latest book, he argues that microfinance institutions should face penalties if they are found to be charging more than 15% above their long-term operating costs.
    • There is a rich variety of financial institutions which serve micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses.

  • HIV and AIDS

    • Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).