A disorder the essential feature of which is a maladaptive reaction to an identifiable psychological stress, or stressors, which occurs within weeks of the onset of the stressors
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Adjustment disorder is a psychological response to stress involving marked distress and significant impairment in functioning, where the onset is linked to an identifiable
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