DISORDERS’ DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA Flashcards
(105 cards)
Developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached.
- Recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or from major attachment figures.
- Lasting at least 4 weeks in children and adolescents and typically 6 months or more in adults.
- Characterized by children’s unrealistic and persistent worry that something bad will happen to their parents or other important people in their lives or that something will happen to the children themselves that will separate them from their parents.
SEPARATION ANXIETY DISORDER [SAD]
Consistent failure to speak in specific social situations in which there is a expectation for speaking [e.g., at school] despite speaking in other situations.
- At least 1 month [not limited to the first month of school]
- The failure to speak is not attributable to a lack of knowledge of, or comfort with, the spoken language required in the social situation.
- Rare childhood disorder characterized by a lack of speech in one or more setting in which speaking is socially expected.
- Usually before age 5 years
SELECTIVE MUTISM [SM]
Marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation [e.g., flying, heights, animals, receiving an injection, seeing blood]
Note: In children, the fear or anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, or clinging.
- The phobic object or situation almost always provokes immediate fear or anxiety.
- The phobic object or situation is actively avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety.
- Specify if: animals, natural environment, blood injection injury
- Acquired through direct experience, experiencing in false alarm, and observing others.
SPECIFIC PHOBIA [SP]
Marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Examples include social interactions [e.g., having a conversation, meeting unfamiliar people], being observed [e.g., eating or drinking], and performing in front of others [e.g., giving a speech].
Note: In children, the anxiety must occur in peer settings and not just during interaction with adults.
Note: In children, the fear and anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, clinging, shrinking, or failing to speak in social situations.
The social situations are avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety.
SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER [SAD] / also known as SOCIAL PHOBIA
Individuals fear a range of situations.
GENERALIZED SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER
Individuals have more limited fear.
SPECIFIC SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER
Recurrent unexpected panic attacks. A panic attack is an abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes, and during which time four [or more] of the following symptoms occur:
Note: The abrupt surge can occur from a calm state or an anxious state.
- Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate
- Sweating
- Trembling or shaking
- Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering.
- Feelings of choking.
- Chest pain or discomfort
- Nausea or abdominal distress
- Feeling dizzy, unsteady, light-headed, or faint
- Chills or heat sensations
- Very rare in childhood.
10. Parenthesias [numbness or tingling sensations]
11. Derealization [feelings of unreality] or depersonalization [being detached from one self]
12. Fear of losing control or “going crazy”
13. Fear of dying
Note: Culture-specific symptoms [e.g., tinnitus, neck soreness, headache, uncontrollable screaming or crying] may be seen. Such symptoms should not count as one of the four required symptoms.
PANIC DISORDER [PD]
Marked fear or anxiety about two [or more] of the following five situations:
- Using public transportation [e.g., automobiles, buses, trains, ships, planes]
- Being in open spaces [e.g., parking lots, marketplaces, bridges]
- Being in enclosed places [e.g., shops, theaters, cinemas]
- Standing in line or being in a crowd
- Being outside of the home alone
The individual fears or avoids these situations because of thoughts that escape might be difficult or help might not be available in the event of developing panic-like symptoms or other incapacitating or embarrassing symptoms [e.g., fear of falling in the elderly, fear of incontinence].
- Develops after a person has unexpected panic attacks.
- Before 35 years old, with 21 years the mean age
- Persistent and chronic
AGORAPHOBIA [AGORA]
Excessive anxiety and worry [apprehensive expectation], occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, about a number of events or activities [such as work or school performance].
- The individual finds it difficult to control the worry.
- The anxiety and worry are associated with three [or more] of the following symptoms [with at least some symptoms having been present for more days than not for the past 66 months]:
Note: Only one item is required in children.
1. Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge.
2. Being easily fatigued.
3. Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank
4. Irritability
5. Muscle tension
6. Sleep disturbance [difficulty falling or staying asleep, or restless, unsatisfying sleep].
GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER [GAD]
Characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that is not limited to any one object, situation, or activity. The intensity, duration, or frequency of the anxiety and worry is out of proportion to the actual likelihood or impact of the anticipated event.
- at least 6 months or more
- Females are twice as likely as males to experience this.
GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER [GAD]
Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both:
Obsessions are defined by (1) and (2):
1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images that are experienced, at some time during disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress.
2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action [i.e., by performing a compulsion].
Compulsions are defined by (1) and (2):
1. Repetitive behaviors [e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking] or mental acts [e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently] that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER [OCD]
Intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate.
OBSESSIONS
Thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief.
COMPULSIONS
4 MAJOR TYPES OF OBSESSIONS:
- SYMMETRY
- FORBIDDEN THOUGHTS OR ACTIONS [AGGRESSIVE/SEXUAL/RELIGIOUS]
- CLEANING/CONTAMINATION
- HOARDING
Preoccupation with one or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance that are not observable or appear slight to others.
- “Imagined Ugliness”
- Formerly known as “Dysmorphophobia”
BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER [BDD]
The individual is preoccupied with the idea that his or her body build is too small or insufficiently muscular. This specifier is used even if the individual is preoccupied with other body areas, which is often the case.
MUSCLE DYSMORPHIA
Preoccupation with some imagined defect in
appearance by someone who actually look
reasonably normal. They may also be
preoccupied with other body areas, such as
skin or hair. A majority (but not all) diet,
exercise, and/or lift weights excessively,
sometimes causing bodily damage.
BODY DYSMORPHIA
Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.
- This difficulty is due to perceived need to save the items and to distress associated with discarding them.
- The difficulty discarding possessions results in the accumulation of possessions that congest and clutter active living areas and substantially compromises their intended use. If living areas are uncluttered, it is only because of the interventions of third parties [e.g., family members, cleaners, authorities].
- May first emerge around ages 15-19 years old
- Often chronic
HOARDING DISORDER [HD]
Recurrent pulling out one’s hair, resulting in hair loss.
- Repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling.
- The hair pulling causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
- May be seen in infants, resolved during early development.
TRICHOTILLOMANIA [HAIR-PULLING DISORDER]
Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions.
- Refers to skin-picking disorder, where a person repeatedly picks at their own skin, often causing harm or damage.
- Most often has onset during adolescence, usually begins as with dermatological condition.
EXCORIATION [SKIN-PICKING] DISORDER
A consistent pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult caregivers, manifested by both of the following:
- The child rarely or minimally seeks comfort when distressed.
- The child rarely or minimally responds to comfort when distressed.
- Show lack of preferred attachment despite having attained a developmental age of at least 9 months.
- Experienced history of severe social neglect.
- Diagnosis should be made with caution in children older than 5 years.
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER [RAD]
A pattern of behavior in which a child actively approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults and exhibits at least 2 of the following:
- Reduced or absent reticence in approaching and interacting with unfamiliar adults.
- Overly familiar verbal or physical behavior [that is not consistent with culturally sanctioned and age-appropriate social boundaries].
- Diminished or absent checking back with adult caregiver after venturing away, even in unfamiliar settings.
- Willingness to go off with an unfamiliar adult with minimal or no hesitation.
DISINHIBITED SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT DISORDER [DSED]
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one [or more] or the following ways:
- Directly experiencing the traumatic event(s)
- Witnessing, in person, the events as it occurred to others.
- Learning that the traumatic events occurred to a close family member or close friend. In cases of actual or threatened death of a family member or friend, the events must have been violent or accidental.
- Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic events [e.g., first responders collecting human remains; police officers repeatedly exposed to details of child abuse].
- Recurrent distressing dreams in which the content and/or affect of the dream are related to the traumatic events.
- Exposure to a traumatic event during which an individual experiences or witnesses death or threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violation.
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER [PTSD]
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one [or more] or the following ways:
- Directly experiencing the traumatic event(s)
- Witnessing, in person, the events as it occurred to others.
- Learning that the traumatic events occurred to a close family member or close friend. In cases of actual or threatened death of a family member or friend, the events must have been violent or accidental.
- Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic events [e.g., first responders collecting human remains; police officers repeatedly exposed to details of child abuse].
- Cannot be diagnosed until 3 days after a traumatic event.
- If the symptoms persists for more than 1 month and meet the criteria for PTSD, then diagnosis will be changed to PTSD.
ACUTE STRESS DISORDER [ASD]