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Chapter-16 Adjustment Disorders and Bereavement

BOOK TITLE: Textbook of Postgraduate Psychiatry (2 Volumes)

Author
1. Ghimire Shree Ram
ISBN
9789351529101
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/14227_17
Edition
3/e
Publishing Year
2018
Pages
12
Author Affiliations
1. Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Baluwatar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Chapter keywords
Adjustment disorder, bereavement, mourning, epidemiology, nontraditional approach, interpersonal psychotherapy, supportive therapy, generalized anxiety disorder, GAD

Abstract

Adjustment disorder refers to the psychological reactions arising in relation to adapting to new circumstance. Such circumstances include divorce and separation, a major change of work and abode such as transition from school to university, or migration, or birth of handicapped child, etc. The ICD-101 and DSM-IV define adjustment disorders as transient states of distress and emotional disturbance, which arise in the course of adapting to a significant life change, stressful life event, serious physical illness, or possibility of serious illness. Bereavement is the state of loss resulting from death of a loved person; the time period following a loss. The other two terms which resembles to bereavement are grief and mourning. Grief is the strong, complex involuntary emotional and behavioral response to bereavement. Mourning is the process of adaptation; public rituals associated with bereavement.

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