Maladjustment — violation of the adaptation of man to environmental changes, manifested by inadequate reactions to stimuli. Psychosocial maladjustment is a failure in the mechanisms of mental adaptation in acute and chronic emotional stress, resulting in partial or complete inability to adapt to the social environment and to perform the usual for their own status role in the society because of the limitation of function of the psyche.

Medical-social signifi cance of the diagnosis, correction and prevention of disadaptation states is that the eff ect only clinically-defi ned symptoms of the disease does not allow full rehabilitation of patients and prevent recurrence of a pathological symptoms. Only the application of the system of a diff erentiated approach that takes into account the specifi cs of the development of psychosocial maladjustment in each case, meets the requirements of modern rehabilitation.