PSYCO350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: National Comorbidity Survey, Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
13 Apr 2018
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Criterion a: the person was exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence, as follows: (one required: direct exposure, witnessing, in person. Indirectly, by learning that a close relative or close friend was exposed to trauma. This does not include indirect non- professional exposure through electronic media, television, movies, or pictures. Intense or prolonged distress after exposure to traumatic reminders: marked physiologic reactivity after exposure to trauma-related stimuli. Criterion d: negative alterations in cognitions and mood. Persistence of symptoms (in criteria b, c, d, and e) for more than one month. Significant symptom-related distress or functional impairment (ex. social, occupational) Re-experiencing rapid, spontaneous, vivid, and arousing: different than normal ltm retrieval emotions felt in original intensity, may be able to dispassionately discuss traumatic experience, but still experience trauma related emotions when cued. Prevalence (cid:862)pt d is a highl(cid:455) prevalent lifetime disorder that often persists for years.
