"Adjustment problems" refers to difficulties or challenges that arise when someone has trouble adapting or getting used to a new situation or change in their life.
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The severity and spread
of adjustment problems of adolescents involved in mutually hostile interactions with others.
In fact, among families high on conflict, divorced families, and «normal» families, the married and in conflict families showed more
child adjustment problems than the divorced families.
Parental dissolution rates are high across Western countries, making this perhaps the most frequent risk factor
for adjustment problems during childhood.
Research shows that children with traumatic experiences of abuse, neglect and abandonment and challenging behavioral and emotional responses are at greater risk of presenting
with adjustment problems within their adoptive families.
Children who are peer - accepted or popular have fewer problems in middle and high school, and teens who are peer - accepted have fewer emotional and
social adjustment problems as adults.
In particular, siblings in families with a less severely autistic child had
fewer adjustment problems when more formal social support was also available to the family.
He also helped establish a camp for children with learning disabilities, and was instrumental in developing a center that provided family therapy approaches to families with children experiencing
school adjustment problems.
However, the state of research into other predictors of
emotional adjustment problems in men still does not provide sufficient information for the selection of the most important risk factors.
The articles assembled for this Special Section are at the forefront of efforts aimed at tracing the interplay of parenting behavior and child and
adolescent adjustment problems over time.
These findings have important implications because stress, anxiety and depression are among the most common
adjustment problems experienced by higher education students, and these problems have been rising on college campus.
The unusual divergence between these two measures of growth underscores a widespread
seasonal adjustment problem that economists have known about for some time.
In the weeks and months after the wedding ceremony, the pink - cloud phase of romance may remain strong, but
sexual adjustment problems are frequent.
Although some children have long - lasting
adjustment problems associated with their parents divorce, the differences between children of divorce and children of intact families can be extremely small.
Several of the veterans who returned to a university campus ran
into adjustment problems caused by the hiatus and the experience of battle.
This survey will argue that, despite
such adjustment problems, the huge changes in intellectual property currently taking place in the IT sector will in time produce more efficient markets.
If your reason for single parenting is divorce, your children will also suffer
from adjustment problems or may have the feeling of being ashamed.
The role of schools is particularly important for children at risk as a result of poverty, low parental education, or
adjustment problems prior to school entry.
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and
adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means.
In fact, among families high on conflict, divorced families, and «normal» families, the married and in conflict families showed more
child adjustment problems than the divorced families.
Girls are at much greater risk for developing two types
of adjustment problems or disorders: depression and eating problems.
Specific effects include depression, anxiety, sleep problems, eating disturbances,
sexual adjustment problems, low self - esteem, and difficulties in relating.
This investigation examined the relation between developmental trajectories jointly estimated for social and physical aggression and
adjustment problems at age 14.
The results do not show higher average risk levels for
psychosocial adjustment problems, even though a minority of the cases is at risk for social impairments (7.7 %), internalizing (23.1 %), externalizing (3.8 %) and total difficulties (11.5 %) and for distress in the parent — child system (15 %).
An alternative interpretation is that sequelae of injury may be more «unexpected» in children with moderate compared with severe TBI and that the child's difficulties meeting expectations may contribute to more prominent
parental adjustment problems.
I work with adult men and woman of all ages, suffering from depression, anxiety and a broad range of
life adjustment problems, including grief and loss, divorce, life transitions, work and career problems, unwanted habits, co-dependency and interpersonal relationship challenges.
Shy - sensitive children are likely to
develop adjustment problems in today's urban China as the country has evolved into an increasingly competitive, market - oriented society.
Explore basic personality structures in abusive relationships, the mechanisms and symptoms of the
specific adjustment problem and its underlying causes and consequences to the individual, couple, and family
However, the research reviewed here does not support claims by critics of joint custody that joint - custody children are likely to be exposed to more conflict or to be at greater risk of
adjustment problems due to having to adjust to two households or feeling «torn» between parents... It is important to recognize that the results clearly do not support joint custody as preferable to, or even equal to, sole custody in all situations.
Although most children adapt well to this transition, approximately 20 % to 25 % develop mental health or
adjustment problems twice the rate experienced by children from continuously married families (Hetherington et
Therefore, screening for psychopathic traits among young children with psychosocial
adjustment problems seems relevant for developing effective intervention strategies.
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