maladjustment

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Studies show that child survivors of a parent’s suicide might as adults be susceptible to depression, social maladjustment and post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Golf Digest

Child victims of a parent's suicide often are susceptible to depression, social maladjustment and post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Golf Digest

A Western observer might shrink in horror from this practice, imagining long-lasting emotional maladjustments from early trauma.

From Washington Post

Researchers examined teenagers’ mobile phone use and their subsequent changes in wellbeing over four years of high school from 2010 to 2013, and found increasingly unencumbered access led to increases in psychosocial maladjustment.

From The Guardian

The question, now, is what to do if the period of “maladjustment” that lasts decades, or possibly a lifetime, as the latest evidence suggests.

From Washington Post