Adjustment Disorders/OCD

Question 1

Adjustment Disorders: Criteria A: The development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable “?” occuring within “?” months of the onset of the “?”

Answer 1

stressor, 3, stressor

Question 2

Adjustment Disorders: Criteria B: Two symptoms
1. Marked distress that is out of proportion to the “?2” of the stressor, taking into account the external context and the cultural factors tham might influence symptom sevrity and presentation.

Answer 2

severity or intensity

Question 3

Adjustment Disorders: Criteria B: Two symptoms

2. Significant impairment in “?” areas of functioning.

Answer 3

social, occupational, or other important

Question 4

Adjustment Disorders: Criteria D: The symptoms do not represent normal “?”

Answer 4

bereavement

Question 5

Adjustment Disorders: Criteria E: Once the stressor or its consequences have terminated, the symptoms do not persist for more than an additional “?” months.

Answer 5

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Question 6

Adjustment disorders can be diagnosed”?” and persist up to “?” months after exposure to traumatic event, WHEREAS acute stress disorders can only occur between “?” days and “?” months of exposure, and PTSD cannot be diagnosed until at least “?” month has passed since trauma.

Answer 6

Adjustment Disorder: immediately, up to 6 months
Acute stress disorder: between 3 days and 1 months of exposure to the stressor
PTSD: at least after 1month

Question 7

OCD: Criteria A: Obsessions:1. Recurrent and persistent “?3” that are experienced at some time during the disturbance as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked “?”.

Answer 7

thoughts, urges, or images

anxiety or distross

Question 8

OCD: Criteria A:Obsessions:2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other “?2”.

Answer 8

thought or action

Question 9

OCD: Criteria A: Compulsions: 1. Repetitive “?” or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an “?” or according to “?” that must be applied rigidly.

Answer 9

behaviors, obsession, rules

Question 10

OCD: Criteria A: Compulsions: 2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing/reducing “?2” , or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors/mental acts are not connected in a “?” way with what they are designed to neutralize/prevent.

Answer 10

anxiety or distress, realistic

Question 11

OCD: Criteria B: The obsessions or compulsions are “?”, or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in “?” functioning.

Answer 11

time-consuming, social/occupational/other important areas