"psychological adjustments" is a perfectly legitimate phrase that can be used in written English.
An example sentence might be, "The patient made significant progress in therapy due to the psychological adjustments they were able to make."
While some have scoured the Internet for gas-mask sales or pestered pharmacists for antibiotics for anthrax, many more, it seems, are making unfamiliar psychological adjustments.
In his new book, Sunnyside, the American writer Glen David Gold fascinatingly reflects on the psychological adjustments that audiences were forced to make by the arrival of the movies.
By placing mirrors at oblique angles and allowing the eye to make tiny psychological adjustments, Morritt refined the use of mirrors beyond the simple geometry to "squeeze his illusions from slight discrepancies".
Reading along, we can feel Boyle beside us, fingertipping his way into the complications and ambiguities of the story, imagining what subtle psychological adjustments his character might make when the two worlds -- virtual and real -- are inevitably brought together.
"Adoptees with greater degrees of comfort with their ethnic identity do better on measures of psychological adjustments, motivations to achieve and sense of well-being than adoptees with lower degrees of comfort," she said.
Such poor psychological adjustments are thus in turn thought to affect job search strategies and success so that a vicious circle may ensue (Furnham [1985]).
After adjusting for potential confounders the relationships between obesity and psychological adjustment (reported externalising and internalising symptoms) remained statistically significant.
It's a difficult psychological adjustment".
We all have to go through a huge psychological adjustment".
The hardest part for me – and I suspect you – will be the psychological adjustment.
But, from my own experience, it may be harder to encourage the psychological adjustment.
