The Psychology of Adjustment course is offered in order to help the students relate their real life experiences to the constructs and theories of psychology. Striking the balance between mental health and personal adjustment, this course uses scientific approach to examine key human processes. Besides fostering critical examination of human behaviour, it might help see
things in a broader perspective. It does provide an opportunity for self-reflection and understanding. A possible range of behaviour in any given situation is repeatedly taken as examples and analyzed to understand what constitutes normality and hence shows the level of adjustment and what falls short and is interpreted as maladjustment. It runs on the brink of psychopathology and touches it only in the last module, except two topics.