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What is the primary change between the DSM 4 and the DSM 5 of a traumatic event? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Responses of fear, helplessness, or horror are not included as criteria in
the DSM 5.
When was PTSD introduced to the DSM? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1980
How many clusters of PTSD symptoms are there? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Intrusion
2. Avoidance
3. Negative Emotions
4. Hyperarousal
Using the DSM 3 definition of a trauma in the course of a lifespan, what percentage of people
experience trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔90%
What is the population prevalence of PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔10%
What is one culture specific presentation of a trauma response? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔•Calor
•Atacque de nervios
•Susto (soul loss)
•Ghost Sickness
•Broken/Sick Heart
•Somatization and Dissociation
, What is an alternative conceptualization to the trauma response? Not PTSD - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔•Complex PTSD
•Developmental trauma disorder
•Other specified trauma and stressor related disorder
What percentage of men and women report histories of sexual abuse? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Men 16%
Women 30%
What is one potential form of trauma not accounted for by the DSM? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔•Expected death (cancer)
•Emotional abuse
•Poverty
•Racism
•Neglect
Nervios - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Dysphoric affects (anxiety, fear, anger).
Refers at once to matters of mind, body, and spirit and does not make good cultural sense in
relation to mind-body dualism. Salvadorian phenomenon.
Somatic Complaints - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Bodily pains, shaking, trembling...
Calor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Described as an experience of intense heat that may rapidly
spread throughout one's entire body. It may be brief (momentary) or prolonged (several days).
Salvadorian phenomenon.