Trauma Disorders

Question 1

PTSD 14 (1122)

Answer 1

requires person to be exposed to an event that either involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, sexual violence.

can be exposed in following ways:

• directly
• knowing details about what happened to someone else
• witnessing it happen to someone

a person has symptoms from each of the 4 categories, lasting over 1 month

intrusion (1)
avoidance or distancing (1)
negative mood 2
arousal 2

Question 2

what are some of the symptoms within each of the 4 main groups of symptoms of PTSD

Answer 2

intrusion
-flashbacks, frightening thoughts, nightmares

avoidance
-changing behaviors to avoid triggers or situations

negative mood
-shame, guilt, depressed feelings, loss of pleasure, loss of enjoyment

arousal

• feeling on edge
• always feeling alert
• having angry outbursts
• feeling tense and jittery regularly

Question 3

Reactive attachment disorder 52

Answer 3

symptoms (must be 2)

symptoms start before age 5 (but min. 9 months old)

**has to be a history of grossly insufficient care
(neglect, abuse, transfers to multiple care-takers)

characterized by lack of responsiveness and affect toward caregivers, very withdrawn, depressed like

Question 4

disinhibited social engagement disorder 29

Answer 4

characterized by child’s abnormal behavior of going with strangers, approaching strangers, interacts and approaches adult strangers without hesitation

**must have history of grossly insufficient care

must have 2 symptoms

developmental age of 9m

Question 5

risk factors of ptsd

Answer 5

prior mental health
dissociation during and after trauma
severity of trauma
level of percieved threat
lack of social support
female gender
younger age
lower education
lower SES

Question 6

acute stress disorder 319

Answer 6

at least 3 days
up to 1 month (past this, becomes PTSD diagnosis)
9 symptoms
(can be from any of categories of the ptsd symptom categories)

Question 7

adjustment disorders 36

Answer 7

there has to be an identifiable psychosocial stressor that occured, resulting in symptoms appearing after

symptoms within 3 months from onset of stressor
remits within 6 months after stressor
(if symptoms dont start until after 3 months, consider the specified/unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder)

cannot be due to another mental disorder, or an expansion of another pre-existing disorder

the distress and impairment experienced must be excessively beyond what would be expected with a given stressor