adjustment reaction

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adjustment reaction

[ə′jəst·mənt rē′ak·shən]

(psychology)

A transient, situational personality disorder occurring in reaction to some significant person, immediate event, or internal emotional conflict.

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If you want to induce an adjustment reaction, just go away from home.

Support patients in alcoholics anonymous for success

In the developing world, H1N1 flu (so far) is much less serious than many endemic health threats, and the main risk-communication goal should be to help people get through their adjustment reaction, take precautions that are feasible, and refocus on other priorities.

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Are depressive symptoms during hospitalization a temporary adjustment reaction that can be ignored, or do they indicate a persistent depression that needs treatment?

Treating depression to treat heart failure

Unexpected was the finding that mothers' diagnoses for adjustment reaction and migraine headache were associated with increased likelihood of well-child care.

Parental mental and pain-related health and pediatric ambulatory care sensitive emergency department visits and hospitalizations

There is an adjustment reaction phenomenon and then people revert to the new normal.

Understanding the risk: what frightens rarely kills: to communicate with people about risk, journalists need to better understand how and why people respond in the ways they do to messages they receive about danger. An expert in risk communication explains the connection between risks that kill people and those that upset them, and he describes how best to approach audiences based on their beliefs about the risks they face

But in many cases this is an adjustment reaction, and the symptoms improve substantially in about 3 days.

Diagnosing depression in medically ill patients. (Endicott substitutive Criteria)

The largest improvement over the industry benchmark occurred for people with Depressive Disorder NOS (Not Otherwise Specified), Major Depression (Recurrent), Adjustment Reaction and Dysthymic Disorder, a chronic form of depression.

Aetna Disability Study Shows Members May Get Back to Work Sooner Following Mental Health Leave

These included diagnoses of brief or prolonged depressive reactions, depressive-type psychosis, bipolar affective disorder with depression, adjustment reaction with anxiety and depression, chronic depressive personality disorder, and depressive disorder not elsewhere classified.

Depression, some meds tied to high C. difficile risk

Instead it was a recognizable orthopedic injury with a disproportionate pain syndrome due to an adjustment reaction of adolescence.

Orthopedic-psychiatric disorder sidelines athletes. (Pain Disproportionate to Injury)

To control for diagnosis in examining trends in service use and cost over time, we define seven mental health diagnostic groups for children receiving mental health services (ICD-9 codes in parentheses): (1) Adjustment Reaction (309.

Patterns of Mental Health Utilization and Costs Among Children in a Privately Insured Population

In other cases, adopted children might act up and present what looks like a serious psychiatric problem, but closer examination shows it is an adjustment reaction or other low-level problem that occurs as an adopted child struggles to understand the meaning and implications of adoption, said Dr.

Don't miss underlying adoption-related grief

I diagnosed her with a major depressive disorder--not an adjustment reaction.

A recent study showed that posttreatment gains with patients who have adjustment disorders could not be demonstrated. What kinds of treatments have you used with these patients?