8 propositions on deinstitutionalisation

1. There is an infinite number of potential responses to a particular distress in a given situation.

2. These responses to varying degrees empower (weaken), include (exclude) and (dis)place a person. 

3. What will be the response to a distress depends on the possibilities of expression of desire (will) of a person and the matter which is available or which can be employed with other people, using the available resources, to generate the common responses to realise desires.

4. What will be the response, is also determined by the syntax of providing the response, for which the property and alienation of the resources has a predicative value that defines the intensity of the intervention in someone’s life-world and provides the subject of the action and change. 

5. Response to distress is always a transformation of the life-world, affected by vectors of the various abstract schemes at different levels.

6. Deinstitutionalisation can be considered as a change of abstract schemes (strategies, paradigms, legislation), which allow escaping from totalising responses to ones, which take into account person’s priorities and disperse response spatially, introduce a multitude, a (rhizomatic) network of actors and situations, as well as transfer the power from the virtual institutions to the actual people.

7. It is a passage, commonly referred as the transition from "medical" to "social" model. In fact, it is about transitions from reductive to a transversal interpretations, from “correcting” to enabling approaches and about a (spatial) shift in the from institutional to the community responses. 

8. An actual resettlement of a resident thus means the passage from total situation into being connected to diverse sources of power in a liberating way while enabling (re)appropriation of assets for decent and independent living, using the available resources and creating the desired response. It also means a shift from institutional life-world in the everyday life-world.

  These proposition were developed for the Rapid Assessment and Response for Deinstitutionalisation and represent the heuristic model to investigate the deinstitutionalisation processes.