LAIBA ZULFIQAR 20654
RUPIA 61814
SADAF AKRAM 22173
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Diagnostic Risk and factors Differential Awareness flyer
criteria diagnosis
• A. Exposure to Actual or Threatened
DIAGNOSTIC
Death, Serious Injury, or Sexual Violation
• The person must have been exposed to a
CRITERIA
traumatic event in one (or more) of the following
ways:
• Directly experiencing the traumatic event(s).
• Witnessing, in person, the event(s) as it occurred
to others.
• Learning that the traumatic event(s) occurred to a
close family member or close friend (the event
must have been violent or accidental).
• Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to
aversive details of the traumatic event(s) (e.g.,
first responders collecting human remains; police
officers repeatedly exposed to details of child
abuse).
B. Presence of Nine (or More) Symptoms from Any of the Five Categories
These symptoms must occur within 3 days to 1 month after the traumatic event:
• Intrusion Symptoms
• Recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of
the traumatic event(s).
• Negative Mood
• Recurrent distressing dreams related to the traumatic event(s).
• Persistent inability to experience positive emotions
• Dissociative reactions (e.g., flashbacks) in which the individual
feels or acts as if the traumatic event(s) were recurring.
(e.g., inability to experience happiness, satisfaction, or
loving feelings).
• Intense or prolonged psychological distress or marked
physiological reactions in response to internal or external cues
that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event(s).
• Dissociative Symptoms
• An altered sense of the reality of one’s surroundings or oneself (e.g., seeing oneself from another’s perspective, being
in a daze, time slowing).
• Inability to remember an important aspect of the traumatic event(s) (typically due to dissociative amnesia and not to
other factors such as head injury, alcohol, or drugs).
• Avoidance Symptoms
• Efforts to avoid distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings about or closely associated with the traumatic event(s).
• Efforts to avoid external reminders (people, places, conversations, activities, objects, situations) that arouse
distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings about or closely associated with the traumatic event(s).
• Arousal Symptoms
• Sleep disturbance (e.g., difficulty falling or staying
asleep, restless sleep).
• Irritable behavior and angry outbursts (with little or no
provocation) typically expressed as verbal or physical
aggression toward people or objects.
• Hypervigilance.
• Problems with concentration.
• Exaggerated startle response.
C. Duration of the Disturbance
• The duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criterion B) is 3 days to 1 month after trauma exposure.
D. Distress or Impairment
• The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other
important areas of functioning.
E. Exclusion of Other Conditions
• The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., medication or alcohol) or
another medical condition (e.g., mild traumatic brain injury) and is not better explained by brief psychotic
disorder.
Risk and factors
• Environmental
• First and foremost an individual must be exposed to
• Temperamental a traumatic event to be at risk for acute stress .risk
factor for the disorder include a history of prior
• prior mental health problems
trauma .
• high level of negative emotional responses
• greater perceived severity of traumatic events
• Genetics and psychological
• Elevated reactivity ,reflected by acoustics startle
repones prior to trauma exposure the risk for
developing acute stress disorder .
Differential diagnosis
Criteria ASD Reason for differential diagnose
ASD VS panic disorder Flashbacks related traumatic Panic attack are common in ASD
events
ASD VS dissociative disorder Dissociative reactions Severe dissociative response
(absence of characteristics acute
stress disorder)
ASD VS PTSD The symptoms patterns in ASD Persist the symptoms ,one than
must resolved within one month one month and meet the criteria
of the trauma event . PTSD the diagnose changed from
ASD to PSTD
ASD VS adjustment disorder Severe stress reactions to life Does not meet the criteria A
threatening
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