Psychiatry and Psychology

Life Change Events

Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of living.

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Abstract

Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of living.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Event, Life Change
  • Life Change Event
  • Life Course
  • Life Crises
  • Life Crisis
  • Life Experiences
  • Course, Life
  • Crisis, Life
  • Experience, Life
  • Life Courses
  • Life Experience

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Indexing Annotation

human only: do not confuse with life cycles & life stages of animals & lower organisms; FAMILY LIFE CYCLES see FAMILY is also available for "transitional stages through which the family evolves...e.g., marriage, childbearing & death"

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Previous Indexing

  • Life Style (1972-1976)
  • Stress, Psychological (1969-1976)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Life Change Events. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008016. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008016
  2. Life Change Events. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69885371