Adjustment Disorder

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AD
Pronunciation
/əˈʤəstmənt dɪˈsɔrdər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. But the wrong way take can also cause hormone adjustment disorder, thus increasing the abnormal menstruation.
  2. Supportive psychotherapy is mainly for adjustment disorder but it can also be a combined therapy for treating major depression.
  3. Even so, only lately has there emerged a clearer sense of what homesickness is a distinct adjustment disorder with identifiable symptoms and what causes it.
  4. Clinical psychological features and immunological assessment of 17 patients of severe stress reaction and adjustment disorder
  5. Objective : To observe the autonomic function in patients with orthostatic adjustment disorder and to evaluate the application value of the sympathetic skin response ( SSR ) in the differential diagnosis of syncope.

Other meanings of AD