A Study about the Causes and Remedies of Maladjusted Students at Secondary level

Abstract

“Maladjustment” is one of the categories of causes. The causes of a person’s maladjustment are dependent on the person’s age, circumstances, support systems and temperament. Of course, what is the situation to which the person is adjusting poorly? Often what gets labeled as a maladjustment is a person (usually a child) having a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances. Bottom line is, this question is unanswerable without the questioner giving more information about the situation. Human beings adjust in a variety of different ways to a variety of circumstances, and not all circumstances are good for all people. Maladjustment is a label-usually given by non-professionals in schools or institutional settings- to an individual whose manner of adjusting to a situation he or she has been placed in is inconvenient for that school or institution. It depends on family systems, or systems theory, in psychology texts. Systems theory offers an understandable way to think about how individuals work together when they form a system, as in a family or larger institution. The present article discusses the causes of maladjustment and its remedies.