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Adjustment Disorder Learning Center
Causes could include:
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life stressors
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There is no way to predict which people who are affected by the same stress are likely to develop adjustment disorder. Financial conditions, social support, and career and recreational opportunities can influence how well a person reacts to stress...
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An adjustment disorder occurs when a person can't cope with a stressful event and develops emotional or behavioral symptoms. The stressful event can be anything: it might be just one isolated incident, or a string of problems that wears the person...
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , which is the basic reference work consulted by mental health professionals, included an important change in its most recent version, the DSM-IV-TR , with regard to the criteria for adjust...
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Few descriptions of any mental illness specify its cause as precisely as the description of adjustment disorders does. An explicit incident or incidents causing stress for the child is always the precipitant. The cause of the stress seen in adjust...
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