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Adjustment Disorders

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Anxiety or mixed states; Reactive depressions; Stress-related mood disorders

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In DSM-5, the adjustment disorders (AD) have been placed in the chapter with the “Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders” that also include reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder, and other stress and related disorders. The AD emanate from a known stressor including those of a catastrophic type and result in dysfunction at work, at school, or at the social level (e.g., interpersonal functioning) and/orpersonal distress within 3 months of the stressor. (In the ICD-10, onset must occur within 1 month of exposure to an identifiable stressor.) They can be further defined by the accompanying mood state, e.g., depressed, anxious, or mixed; by the presence of a disturbance of conduct; or by the absence of these predominating features, in which case they are considered unspecified. (In DSM-5 unspecified has...

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 G. L. Levy Place, 1230, 10029, New York, NY, USA

    James J. Strain

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  1. Section of Behavioural Pharmacology, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry P049, London, United Kingdom

    Ian P. Stolerman

  2. Brown Medical School, Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Lawrence H. Price

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Strain, J.J. (2013). Adjustment Disorders. In: Stolerman, I., Price, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27772-6_357-2

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