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Flashcards in Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders Deck (9)
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1
Q

There is evidence of pathogenic care in a child who habitually doesn’t seek comfort from parents or surrogates (begins before age 5; child has developmental age of at least 9 months)

A

Reactive attachment disorder

Specify:
Persistent. symptoms are present longer than 1 year
Severe: all symptoms are present at a high level of intensity

2
Q

There is evidence of pathogenic care in a child who fails to show normal reticence in the company of strangers (child has developmental age of at least 9 months)

A

Disinhibited social engagement disorder

Specify:
Persistent. symptoms are present longer than 1 year
Severe: all symptoms are present at a high level of intensity

3
Q

These adolescents or adults repeatedly relive a severely traumatic event, such as combat or a natural disaster, take steps to avoid the horror, lose interest in otherwise important activities and feel detached from other people, experience symptoms of hyperarousal (1+ months)

A

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Specify:
With delayed expression (symptoms started 6+ months after the event)

With dissociative symptoms:

  • Depersonalization: feelings of detachment, as dreaming, from the patient’s own mind/body
  • Derealization: surroundings seem distant, distorted, dreamlike, or unreal
4
Q

Children repeatedly relive a severely traumatic event, such as car accidents, natural disasters, or war

A

Posttraumatic stress disorder in preschool children

5
Q

This condition is much like PTSD, except that it begins during or immediately after the stressful event. (Duration: 3 days to 1 month)

A

Acute stress disorder

6
Q

Following a stressor, an individual develops symptoms that disappear once the cause of stress has subsided. (Duration: starts within 3 months of stressor’s onset, stops within 6 months of stressor’s end)

A

Adjustment disorder

Specify:
Acute. The condition has lasted less than 6 months
Persistent (or chronic) 6+ months duration of symptoms, though still not lasting more than 6 months after the stressor has ended.

7
Q

Patients whose stress or trauma appears related to other presentations may be classified in one of these categories

A

Other specified, or unspecified, trauma- and stressor- related disorder

8
Q

An astonishing number of Z-codes (V-codes in ICD-9) cover the categories of difficulties that arise from neglect or from physical or sexual abuse of children or adults

A

Problems related to abuse or neglect

9
Q

The patient becomes anxious when separated from parents, other attachment figure, or home

A

Separation anxiety disorder