Trauma & Stressor-Related Disorders

Question 1

PTSD

Answer 1

• Exposure to a traumatic stressor
• As a result, 4 types of symptoms:
  - Intrusion symptoms (dreams, recollections, feeling event reoccur, psychological or physiological distress when encounters symbols)
  - Avoidance Symptoms
  - Negative alternations in cognition and mood
  - Alteration in arousal and reactivity
  
  • Duration: must last >1 month
  • Onset: Symptoms usually begin within 3 months of trauma but can begin ANYTIME

Question 2

Acute Stress Disorder

Answer 2

• Exposure to a traumatic stressor
• Numerous PTSD-like symptoms develop from any of the categories
• Start and resolve within 1 month after trauma exposure

Question 3

Adjustment Disorder

Answer 3

-Development of significant ( and disproportional) emotional/behavior symptoms
-Due to an identifiable stressor
-acute onset: symptoms develop within a few months of stressor onset
-brief duration: symptoms resolve within several months after the stressor (or its consequences) have terminated
-Symptoms don’t meet criteria for another disorder
Subtypes: -with anxiety, -depressed mood, -disturbance of conduct, -mixed anxiety and depressed mood, -unspecified