Adjustment disorder: New developments

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Casey, Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorder; Criteria; Stressor; Subsyndromal; Subthreshold; Subtype with anxiety; Subtype with depressed mood; Subtype with disturbance of conduct; Subtype with mixed anxiety and depressed mood; Subtype with mixed disturbance of emotion and conduct; Subtypes

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; CLORAZEPATE; ETIFOXINE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; KAVA EXTRACT; LORAZEPAM; LORMETAZEPAM; MIANSERIN; PLACEBO; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TIANEPTINE; TRAZADONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIAN; VILOXAZINE;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-5; HUMAN; ICD-10; ICD-9; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCREENING TEST; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; ANXIETY DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899689406     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-014-0451-2     Document Type: Article

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