Adjustment

Adjustment may refer to:

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Adjustment (law)

According to the law, the term adjustment may appear in varied contexts, as a synonym for terms with unrelated definitions:

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Adjustment (psychology)

In psychology, adjustment refers to the behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment. Humans and animals regularly do this, for example, when they are stimulated by their physiological state to seek food, they eat (if possible) to reduce their hunger and thus adjust to the hunger stimulus. Adjustment disorder occurs when there is an inability to make a normal adjustment to some need or stress in the environment.

In general, the adjustment process involves four parts:

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