Adjustment disorders as stress response syndromes: A new diagnostic concept and its exploration in a medical sample

Psychopathology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 135-146

  Maercker, Andreas ^a   Einsle, Franziska ^b   Köllner, Volker ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorders; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Stress response syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33947381414     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099290     Document Type: Article

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