Symptom Duration
Per the DSM-5, this type of disorder persists for a duration of 3-days to 1-month after exposure to the traumatic incident.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
The type of Adjustment Disorder that would go along with this statement: "I've been crying all the time, even at little things, I feel like things will never get better, and I just don't feel like doing my schoolwork or have any motivation to even hang out with anyone."
What is Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood?
The main trait of this disorder is recurrent skin picking that results in lesions and repeated attempts to stop.
What is Excoriation (skin picking) disorder?
The amount of settings that symptoms must be present.
What is two? (Home/School/Work/With Friends/With Relatives/In Other Activities)
This has been described as the occupation of childhood.
What is play?
Criteria for this disorder is that the development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor(s) must occur within 3 months of the onset of the stressor(s).
What is an Adjustment Disorder?
A 7-year old client meets criteria for Adjustment Disorder and they report symptoms of hitting peers, breaking their teacher's classroom supplies, and refusing to come inside after recess is over.
What is Adjustment Disorder with Disturbance of Conduct?
Criteria for this disorder includes:
Persistent concern or worry about additional panic attacks or their consequences (e.g., losing control, having a heart attack, “going crazy”).
A significant maladaptive change in behavior related to the attacks (e.g., behaviors designed to avoid having panic attacks, such as avoidance of exercise or unfamiliar situations).
What is Panic Disorder?
There are this many types of ADHD.
What is three?
This is an example of a collateral contact who may give us information about the client.
Who is a parent/teacher/coach/relative/doctor/other provider/school counselor/admin?
The amount of time that excessive anxiety and worry, occurring more days than not, about a number of events or activities (such as work or school performance) must occur in order for someone to meet criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
What is 6 months?
Nervousness, worry, jitteriness, or separation anxiety is predominant in this type of Adjustment Disorder.
What is Adjustment Disorder with Anxiety?
This disorder has a specific subtype for children under the age of 6.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Symptoms within this category can include difficulty organizing tasks and activities, difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities, and loses things necessary for tasks or activities.
What is inattention?
Nightmares about something really bad that happened to a client a few months ago can be evidence of which disorder.
What is PTSD?
The amount of time that symptoms of depression must be present in order to give a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder.
What is 2 weeks?
An Adjustment Disorder cannot be given for a client who is in the immediate aftermath of this specific normal type of life experience.
What is bereavement?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent pulling of one's hair and repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling.
What is trichotillomania?
This is a differential diagnosis in which symptoms may look like ADHD, but we are aware that the child has recently experienced a significant trauma.
What is PTSD?
True or False: It is important to take into account a client's culture when diagnosing.
What is true?
In Separation Anxiety Disorder, the amount of time that a CHILD or ADOLESCENT must experience symptoms to qualify for a diagnosis.
What is 4 weeks?
A 14-year old client meets criteria for Adjustment Disorder and says this "I am on edge and anxious and sad and jittery all of the time, and I just get so mad when people do certain things, that I can't control myself and I hit them or I punch the wall or I curse them out."
What is Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Disturbance of Emotions and Conduct?
Symptoms of this disorder include developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached.
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?
In teenagers, symptoms of ADHD need to have been present before this age.
What is 12?
Per the DSM, most diagnoses must interfere with functioning in certain areas of functioning.
What is social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning?