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 Adjustment Disorders
George Michael Cuesta, PhD is a Board Certified Clinical
Psychologist / Neuropsychologist practicing at the Burke
Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains (Westchester County), New York and has years
of experience treating adjustment disorders.
What is an adjustment disorder? Adjustment disorders are
common and can affect anyone, regardless of age,
gender, lifestyle, or race. An adjustment disorder is a
behavioral response to a stressful event or variation in a child
or adolescent’s life that is not a healthy response to the event
or change. An adjustment disorder prompts an unbearable reaction,
usually lasting less than six months, to a stressful or
traumatic event or situation. An adjustment disorder is not the
same thing as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which
usually occurs in reaction to a life-threatening event and can
be longer lasting.
An adjustment disorder usually begins within three months of a
particularly stressful event, and ends within six months after
the stressor stops. There are numerous subtypes of adjustment
disorders, including adjustment disorder with:
 anxious
mood
conduct
disturbances
depressed
mood
mixed
anxiety and depression
mixed
disturbance of emotions and conduct
unspecified
More information
pertaining to adjustment disorders, including treatment, can be
found here:
Feel free to contact George Michael Cuesta, PhD at the Burke
Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains (Westchester County), New York to schedule an
appointment to start treating or diagnosing your adjustment
disorder. |
