rehabilitation

(noun)

A process of restoring to useful life, as through therapy and education, or of restoring to good condition, operation, or capacity. 

Related Terms

Examples of rehabilitation in the following topics:

  • Social Control

    • rehabilitation - some argue that formal social controls should work to rehabilitate criminals, eventually turning them into productive members of society

  • Pulled Hamstring and Charley Horse

    • Complete ruptures require surgical repair and rehabilitation for approximately three months.
    • After five days of rest, active rehabilitation begins.

  • Sprain and Strain

    • As soon as possible, the gymnast needs to begin to take brief walks as part of rehabilitative therapy.
    • Failure to rehabilitate the ankle can permanently weaken it.

  • References

  • Prisons and Asylums

    • Prison-building efforts in the United States during the Jacksonian Era led to widespread use of imprisonment and rehabilitative labor as the primary penalty for most crimes in nearly all states by the time of the American Civil War.
    • The aim of this method was rehabilitative: The reformers talked about the penitentiary serving as a model for the family and the school.
    • The assumption of rehabilitation was that people were not permanently criminal and that it was possible to restore a criminal to a useful life in which they could contribute to themselves and to society.
    • In England and Europe, mental illness came to be viewed as a disorder that required compassionate treatment to aid in the rehabilitation of the victim.

  • Hip Fracture

    • Since prolonged immobilization can be more of a health risk than the surgery itself, post-op patients are encouraged to become mobile as soon as possible, often with the assistance of rehabilitation professionals such as occupational therapists and physical therapists.

  • Bankruptcy Considerations

    • Chapter 11 involves rehabilitation or reorganization and is known as corporate bankruptcy.

  • State Initiatives Against Affirmative Action

    • Congress passed Section 717 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, both of which require all U.S. federal agencies to implement affirmative employment opportunity programs for all federal employees.

  • Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System

    • Criminal justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts.
    • There are four jurisdictions for punishment: retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and societal protection.

  • Knee Injuries

    • Before the advent of arthroscopy and arthroscopic surgery, patients having surgery for a torn ACL required at least nine months of rehabilitation, having initially spent several weeks in a full-length plaster cast.