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The term adjustment is defined by the Oxford dictionary as the process of 'ordering or positioning'; regulating; arranging; adapting. Adjustment as a process is relevant in all aspects of human life biological, social, political and economical. In the biological context, this term was given a systematic analysis by Darwin who used the term adaptation and proposed in his book 'Origin of species' that this ability increases in response to increased environmental hazards, as the organism moves up on the phylogenic scale. In a socio-psychological context, Piaget proposed that the ability to 'adapt' and 'assimilate' becomes increasingly complex in the development span of an individual. According to Shaffer (1936) , "Adjustment is a process by which a living organism maintains a balance between its needs and circumstances that influence the satisfaction of these needs. Human beings are born with varying needs, the frustration of which leads to maladjustment