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Adjustment Disorder : Causes

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Causes could include:
  • life stressors

Causes Overview Articles

Adjustment disorder
Adults often develop adjustment disorder due to marital or financial problems.Death of a loved one General life changes Unexpected catastrophes.There is no way to predict which people who are affected by the same stress are likely to develop adjus...
Source:ADAM
Date:December 15, 2008
Adjustment Disorders
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...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Adjustment disorder
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 adjustme...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Adjustment Disorders
An explicit incident or incidents causing stress for the child is always the precipitant. The cause of the stress seen in adjustment disorders can be events that for many children would be within the parameters of normal experience.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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