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Transition & Adjustment

Adjustment disorders are emotional conditions in which someone experiences an outsized reaction to a change in life or significant stressor. While anyone may find these stressors difficult, people with adjustment disorders experience extreme emotional reactions that last longer than others would typically expect.

Types of Adjustment Disorders:


Adjustment disorder with depressed mood

  • Adjustment disorder with anxiety

  • Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood 

  • Adjustment disorder with conduct disturbance

  • Adjustment disorder with mixed conduct and emotional disturbance. 

  • Adjustment disorder, unspecified


An event leading to an adjustment disorder can take one of many forms. It can even be something many consider positive, such as leaving for college for the first time. Some triggers are chronic and ongoing, as in an abusive relationship, while in other scenarios a combination of events can cause the disorder.

Benefit From 

Psychoeducation

Coping Tools & Techniques

Authentic Care

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