disorders

• Adjustment Disorder


  Maladaptive Response to a common stressor within 3 months
• Acute Stress Disorder


  A mental health disorder that can occur after a traumatic event. It is characterized by intrusive memories, avoidance of associated stimuli, and changes in mood and arousal that impair daily functioning
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  According to the DSM-5, the trigger for PTSD is exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violation
• Reactive Attachment Disorder


  A rare but serious condition in which an infant or young child doesn't establish healthy attachments with parents or caregivers
• Socially Disinhibited Engagement Disorder

  Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED) is an attachment condition characterized by difficulty forming emotional bonds with others and a lack of inhibition around strangers
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder


  Chronic state of severe worry and tension, often without provocation. People with GAD regularly anticipate disaster, often worrying excessively about health, money, family, or work
• Selective Mutism


  Rare childhood anxiety disorder in which a child experiences a trigger response and is unable to speak in certain situations or to certain people
• Separation Anxiety Disorder


  Separation Anxiety Disorder is a condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment
• Adjustment Disorder

  Description: Maladaptive Response to a common stressor within 3 months

  Criteria: Your emotional or behavioral symptoms developed within three months of the start of the stressful event in your life. ● Your emotional or behavioral symptoms are clinically significant. ○ This means that your symptoms are severe enough to interfere with your daily life. ● Your emotional or behavioral symptoms don’t meet the criteria for another mental health disorder. ● Your emotional or behavioral symptoms go away within six months after the stressful event ends
• Acute Stress Disorder

  Description: A mental health disorder that can occur after a traumatic event. It is characterized by intrusive memories, avoidance of associated stimuli, and changes in mood and arousal that impair daily functioning. Symptoms of ASD include intrusion symptoms, avoidance symptoms, dissociative symptoms, and arousal symptoms

  Criteria: Experienced or witnessed a traumatic event and have symptoms that last for at least three days but no more than one month after the event. ○ After one month it c an lead to PTSD. ○ DSM-5 removes dissociation as a symptom
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  Description: According to the DSM-5, the trigger for PTSD is exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violation.