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rehabilitation

rehabilitation

83 4.7
Help for someone to live normally again after prison, illness, or addiction
  • noun
  • /ˌriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/
translation icon : reinserción social
  • After completing his prison sentence, he enrolled in a rehabilitation program to help him reintegrate into society.
  • a rehabilitation program
  • vocational rehabilitation
  • a rehabilitation center

And The thing is, like you people think of prison as like rehabilitation centers.

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Examples

  • Although pharmacologic treatment is important to control symptoms, rehabilitation should be a key aspect in the recovery of these patients.

    Academic text (2017)
  • A multidisciplinary approach is essential in providing rehabilitation and support to caregivers who are visually impaired.

    Academic text (2008)
  • - You need to go to a rehabilitation centre.

  • We just have to get you into rehabilitation as soon as we can.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Ma works for the State Rehabilitation Commission, and she knows how to talk to agencies.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • And I get the same energy from the discussion around rehabilitation for criminals as well.

  • This is mandatory policy now in all rehabilitation centres.

  • They started opening new rehabilitation centers to provide care for the children that require early stimulation.

  • For Betsy, Dr. Zorn's active part in her rehabilitation made a tremendous difference.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Mr Renton, I understand that you have entered into a programme of rehabilitation in an attempt to wean yourself away from heroin.

Synonyms

recovery
vsrehabilitation
264 3.0

Getting better after illness or injury

focuses on returning to normal life and social role rather than health alone
rehabilitation program
vsrehabilitation
  • US
5 3.4

A planned course of treatment to help someone recover after illness, injury, or addiction

is the longer process of helping someone return to normal life
physical rehabilitation
vsrehabilitation
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A process that helps people get back strength and movement after illness, injury, or disability

is broader, aiming at overall social return not only physical recovery
vocational rehabilitation
vsrehabilitation
1 5.3

Help that teaches job skills so people with disabilities can get or return to work

aims for return to society more broadly not only finding work
therapeutic rehabilitation
vsrehabilitation
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Treatment that helps people regain movement and daily skills after illness or injury

focuses on social and practical return to society rather than clinical disability treatment
reinsertion
vsrehabilitation
6.1

Helping someone return to normal life and work after prison or long illness

aims for a general return to normal life and a useful place in society
correctional rehabilitation
vsrehabilitation
  • Formal
7.4

Programs in prison or under supervision that help offenders learn skills and avoid new crimes

focuses on returning people to society after imprisonment, illness, or addiction

Antonyms

172 3.7

A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally

26 3.6

Leaving someone or something and not coming back

Compounds

A planned course of treatment to help someone recover after illness, injury, or addiction

1 3.4

A process that helps people get back strength and movement after illness, injury, or disability

1 4.8

Treatment that helps people regain movement and daily skills after illness or injury

Help that teaches job skills so people with disabilities can get or return to work

Programs in prison or under supervision that help offenders learn skills and avoid new crimes

8.4

A place where people are kept by the government and forced to change their beliefs or behavior

A program where people receive therapy to regain strength and movement after injury or illness

A program that helps people with disabilities learn job skills to find work

How Restored

rehabilitation
83 4.7
therapy
862 3.2
to support
753 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

rehabilitation = rehabilitate (transparent) = rehabilitate + ion

This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'rehabilitate' meaning the process or result of rehabilitating.

Etymology

The word rehabilitation comes from the Latin parts re- 'again' and habilis 'able', the same idea behind English words like able and ability, so it means 'to make able again'. So, it refers to programs that help a person return to normal life after prison, illness, or addiction.