The phrase "adjustment reaction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in psychological or medical contexts to describe a response to a significant change or stressor in a person's life.
Example: "After the sudden loss of her job, she experienced an adjustment reaction that affected her mood and daily functioning."
Alternatives: "adaptive response" or "coping reaction".
The study by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center found that for all the military personnel medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2012, the most frequent diagnosis was not physical battle wounds but "adjustment reaction," a category that includes grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and other mental disorders.
She agreed that the claimant's psychological reaction was only an adjustment reaction, not PTSD, and she further stated that Jones had been "very deceptive and deceitful in his reporting", suggesting that he might be consciously giving incorrect information to the experts.
‡A diagnosis of adjustment reaction and/or acute stress.
These include neurotic disorder, personality disorder, acute reaction to stress, adjustment reaction and depression.
The other serious side effects mentioned were erythrodermic psoriasis, exfoliative dermatitis, and adjustment reaction with anxiety noted in single patient.
First, it may be reflective of psychological distress, precisely an adjustment reaction, due to recent notification of seropositivity.
Particularly large increases were found for both males and females with stress or adjustment reactions and with other psychoses.
Though the IES-R correlates with post-traumatic stress disorder [ 26], reactions observed in the present study may overlap with adjustment reactions, depression, anxiety disorder, or general distress.
With the exception of females with stress or adjustment reactions, all disorders were associated with a significant gap in life expectancy throughout the study.
The selected diagnoses were neurotic disorders (e.g., anxiety state, obsessive-compulsive disorders, phobic state), personality disorders, acute reaction to stress, adjustment reactions, depression, alcohol dependence, and nondependent drug abuse.
17 The active prevalence of disorder (proportion of the population in contact with mental health services in the preceding five years) increased over time for some disorders (fig 1), in particular affective psychoses and stress or adjustment reactions.
