PSYCH 140: Adjustment Disorders
Medlock Holmes enters The House of Adaptation, where people arrive carrying the weight of events that have changed their lives: relationship breakdown, financial hardship, illness, unemployment, conflict, relocation, bereavement and unexpected transitions.
But Holmes immediately encounters psychiatry’s central difficulty with adjustment disorder:
“When does distress become disorder?”
Adjustment disorder is defined by the development of significant emotional or behavioural symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor. Unlike PTSD, the stressor does not have to involve threatened death…
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