Adjustment Disorders
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
An adjustment disorder is an emotional or behavioral reaction to a stressful event or change in a person’s life. The reaction is considered an unhealthy or excessive response to the event or change within three months of it happening.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W002
Diagnosis: Adjustment Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: 1M-2W;B=G
Age Onset: 3MoAftStress
Brain Area:
Symptoms: depressed mood, anxiety,25%sattempts
Progression: Relatively good, may last 6 months or 25% go to PTSD or Major Depressive Disorder
Causes:
Medications:
Therapies: family support & encouragement
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
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- Adjustment Disorder Presenting as Syncope in a Patient With Wolf-Parkinson White Syndromeby Jonathan Van Name on November 21, 2024
Adjustment disorder encompasses maladaptive emotional, behavioral, and physiologic symptomatology that is related to an identifiable psychosocial stressor. Adjustment disorder manifesting as syncope in a patient with Wolf-Parkinson White (WPW) Syndrome is uncommon and has not previously been documented in medical literature. In this case, we discuss a 24-year-old male with a history of WPW who presented with unexplained, episodic syncope in the setting of acute life stressors. A patient with no...
- Quality of Life and Functioning Impairments Across Psychiatric Disorders in Adults Presenting for Outpatient Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatmentby Waguih William IsHak on November 21, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with psychiatric conditions overwhelmingly reported severely impaired QOL and functioning at entry to outpatient treatment. Patients with mood disorders were disproportionately more likely to endorse severely impaired QOL and functioning, particularly those with Major Depressive Disorder, recurrent, and Bipolar Disorder I, depressive episode. Findings suggest that future treatment efforts should focus on interventions that restore QOL and functioning in psychiatric...
- Comparing Marital Adjustment in Couples Having Alcohol- or Opioid-dependent Husbandsby Sayani Bisoi on November 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: Marital adjustment are probably equal in patients and spouses of alcohol and opioid dependence syndrome. A small sample size is a limitation of this study.
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of guided self-help for depression for autistic adults: the Autism Depression Trial (ADEPT-2) - protocol for a multicentre, randomised controlled trial of a remotely delivered low-intensity interventionby Holly Emily Mckeon on November 20, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Depression is three to four times more prevalent in autistic people and is related to reduced quality of life. There is a need for empirically supported psychological interventions for depression specifically adapted to meet the needs of autistic adults. ADEPT-2 aims to establish the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an adapted low-intensity psychological intervention (guided self-help) for depression in autistic adults.