Adjustment Disorders

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Adjustment

Disorders
Information

• Responding to ONE or Many Stressors


• May happen once or repeatedly
• “relatively” commonplace events can be a stressor for someone
• Getting married, divorced, moving, financial problems common
• Found in all age groups
• Found in all cultures
• Kids too
• Starts within 3 months of stressor’s
onset
Features • Ends within 6 months of stressor’s end
• Distress or Disability
• Look at all other options
• With Depressed Mood
• With Anxiety
• With mixed anxiety and depressed mood
Coding • With disturbance of conduct
• With mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct
• unspecified

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