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Chapter 29.Adjustment Disorders

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    https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781585625048.gg29

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    Psychotherapy | Pharmacotherapy | Resilience | Conclusion | References

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    Adjustment disorders (ADs) occupy a special place in the taxonomy of psychiatry—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—between normal problems of living and threshold diagnoses: that is, they have been until now regarded as subthreshold diagnoses (American Psychiatric Association 1994, 2013). Most medical diseases and psychiatric illnesses have symptom or laboratory checklists or findings to aid and objectify the diagnosis, which is essential for the appropriate application of treatment.

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