With Regard to PTSD, Two Important Changes in DSM-5 Include

question 52

Multiple Choice

With regard to PTSD, two important changes in DSM-5 include:

• A) tightening of the criteria such that fewer people can be diagnosed with PTSD; behavioural specification of a number of terms that are currently vague.
• B) addition of symptoms and behaviours to better incorporate the variety of reactions to trauma; distinction between avoidance symptoms and negative alterations in cognition and mood.
• C) removal of the criterion that the person be directly exposed to the traumatic event; creation of subtypes based on type of avoidance.
• D) increase in the duration requirement to 2 months; broadening of the way that impairment may manifest.
• E) increase in the duration requirement to 6 months; broadening of the way that impairment may manifest.

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