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Adjustment Disorder
Clinical Psychology · Mental Health
Mild
Severity
Common — one of the most frequently diagnosed mental health conditions, particularly following major life stressors
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Clinical Psychology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Adjustment disorder is triggered by exposure to a significant
- 2identifiable stressor or life change that overwhelms a person's usual coping mechanisms
- 3such as relationship breakdown
- 4financial difficulty
- 5serious illness
- 6or a major life transition. Individual factors including limited coping skills
- 7a history of previous mental health difficulties
- 8lack of social support
- 9and the severity or unexpectedness of the stressor influence how a person responds and their risk of developing the disorder. The condition can affect people of any age
- 10including children reacting to family changes such as divorce or relocation.
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