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mesosystem

n. in ecological systems theory, the groups and institutions outside the home (e.g., day care, school, a child’s peer group) that influence the child’s development and interact with aspects of the microsystem (e.g., relations in the home). Compare chronosystem; exosystem; macrosystem. [introduced by Urie Bronfenbrenner]

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March 10th 2025

custodial care

custodial care

1. care rendered to a patient with prolonged mental or physical disability that includes assisted daily living (e.g., the regular feeding and washing of bedridden patients) but typically not mental health services themselves.

2. confinement in such institutions as prisons and military correctional facilities that place restrictions on individuals’ liberty under the rules of law and that protect and monitor the individual or protect others from the individual’s violent and harmful tendencies or potential.