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social maladjustment

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social maladjustment
Psychiatry An extreme difficulty in dealing appropriately with other people


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5,10,11) The results of the current study support the notion that disruptive behaviors that may lead to delinquency and social maladjustment can be identifiable in early to middle childhood and suggest the need for interventions with high risk children in order to prevent more serious secondary disabilities in the future.
Many of these students have been excluded from receiving services because they did not show a lack of academic learning or because their social maladjustment (SM) was inexplicable on the basis of emotional factors.
Beginning with Johnson's key term of Quandaries, my intent is to emphasize not just the personal maladjustment that was Johnson's focus, but the interpersonal and social maladjustment that can also occur.
 
 
 
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