TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Adjustment Disorders
A1  - Salomon, Ronald M.
A2  - Ebert, Michael H.
A2  - Leckman, James F.
A2  - Petrakis, Ismene L.
PY  - 2019
T2  - Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 3e
AB  - The  diagnoses  of  adjustment  disorders  should  be  relatively  straightforward  provided  the  clinician  considers  a  wide  range  of  stressors  and  other  Axis  I  diagnoses,  but  they  can  present  a  number  of  pitfalls.  Challenging  diagnostic  situations  can  arise  when  the  stressor  is  subtle.  For  example,  a  change  in  a  previously  stable  life  situation  may  occur  without  the  patient  complaining  of  an  obvious  stressor.  The  clinician  should  exclude  any  specified  symptom  complex  that  meets  diagnostic  criteria  for  another  Axis  I  disorder  even  if  it  may  be  related  to  a  specific  stressor.  Only  the  other  Axis  I  diagnoses  should  be  recorded  if  its  criteria  are  met.  However,  when  a  discrete  recent  stressor  is  identifiable,  an  adjustment  disorder  diagnosis  may  be  more  appropriate  than,  for  example,  anxiety  disorder  not  otherwise  specified  or  depressive  disorder  not  otherwise  specified.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158262127
ER  -