Adjustment and Mental Health: Contemporary View

Life for man has always been about adaptation and adjustment tohis environment. If man has evolved and reached his status, it isonly because of these two traits. The more we are able to adapt andadjust, the more we are in harmony with existence. N psychology,adjustment refers to the behavioral process of balancing conflictingneeds, or needs challenged by obstacles in the environment. Humansand animals regularly adjust to their environment. 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 thehunger stimulus. Adjustment disorder occurs when there is aninability to make a normal adjustment to some need or stress in theenvironment [1].