This document outlines the diagnostic criteria for two disorders: prolonged grief disorder and reactive attachment disorder. Prolonged grief disorder is characterized by intense yearning and preoccupation with memories of the deceased for at least one year after their death. It also involves experiencing at least three symptoms like identity disruption and difficulty reintegrating. Reactive attachment disorder involves a pattern before age 5 of being emotionally withdrawn from caregivers and minimally seeking or responding to comfort, along with social/emotional disturbances and a history of insufficient care.
This document outlines the diagnostic criteria for two disorders: prolonged grief disorder and reactive attachment disorder. Prolonged grief disorder is characterized by intense yearning and preoccupation with memories of the deceased for at least one year after their death. It also involves experiencing at least three symptoms like identity disruption and difficulty reintegrating. Reactive attachment disorder involves a pattern before age 5 of being emotionally withdrawn from caregivers and minimally seeking or responding to comfort, along with social/emotional disturbances and a history of insufficient care.
This document outlines the diagnostic criteria for two disorders: prolonged grief disorder and reactive attachment disorder. Prolonged grief disorder is characterized by intense yearning and preoccupation with memories of the deceased for at least one year after their death. It also involves experiencing at least three symptoms like identity disruption and difficulty reintegrating. Reactive attachment disorder involves a pattern before age 5 of being emotionally withdrawn from caregivers and minimally seeking or responding to comfort, along with social/emotional disturbances and a history of insufficient care.
Duration: 1 yr. after death (6 months for children)
Characterized by: 1. intense yearning 2. Preoccupied memories of deceased
Aleast 3 occurs in the last month:
Identity disruption Avoidance of reminders of death Disbelief Difficulty reintegrating. Loneliness Intense emotional pain Feeling life is meaningless Emotional numbness Clearly exceed bereavement reaction expectation - Symptom cause CSD - symptoms are not better explained by another mental disorder
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER
Duration: before 5 yrs- old Pattern of a emotionally withdrawn towards their caregivers a. minimally seek comfort b. minimal responds to comfort
atleast 2 ff social and emotional disturbances:
a. minimal social and emotional response b. limited positive affect c. Unexplained irritability w/ caregiver
at least 1 ff Experience insufficient care:
a) social neglect b) changes of caregiver c) rearing in unusual settings
- not met for autism
-evident disturbance -5yrs old -developmental age atleast 9 months