6th Class Lecture

Jeff Baker, Ph.D. - Primary Instructor & Course Coordinator

Chapter Outline

Chapter 26

Adjustment Disorders

Diagnostic Criteria for Adjustment Disorders

Table 26-1

A. Development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor(s) within 3 months of the onset of the stressor(s).

B. Evidenced by either of the following:

1. marked distress that is in excess of what would be expected.

2. significant impairment in social or occupational functioning.

C. The stress-related disturbance does not meet the criteria for another AXIS I or AXIS 2 disorder.

D. The symptoms do not represent bereavement.

E. Once the stressor has terminated, the symptoms do not persist for more than an additional 6 months.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The symptoms develop after a psychologically traumatizing event or events oiutside the range of normal human experience. May experience symptoms alone or in groups. The stressors contain a psychological compent anfd frequently a concomitant physical component that may directly damage people's nervous systems. In adjustment disorder the precioitating stress event need not be severe or unusual.

Course and Prognosis

Pharmacotherapy

Prescribed for brief periods.

Chapter 27

Personaility Disorders

DSMIV

Paranoid

Schizoid

Schizotypal

Antisocial

Borderline

Histrionic

Narcissitic

Avoidant

Dependent

Obsessive-Compulsive

NOS

Medical Conditions Associated with Personality Change

Table 27-16

Chapter 28

Psychological Factore Affecting Medical Condition

DSMIV

Table 28.1-1

A general medical condition is present.

Psychologival factors adversely affect the general medical condition.

Life Situations (Holmes Social Readjustment Rating Scale)

Table 28.1-5

Specific Disorders

Cardiovascular

Respiratory

Gastrointestinal

Musculoskeletal

Headaches

Endocrine

Chronic Pain

Table 28.2-3

Cancer

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