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Post-traumatic stress disorder: PVL Periventricular leukomalacia: PW Port-wine stain: Q. Acronyms Diseases and disorders ... List of medical abbreviations: Overview;
There is a predicted lower rate of diagnosed PTSD using ICD-11 compared to ICD-10 or DSM-5. [169] ICD-11 also proposes identifying a distinct group with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), who have more often experienced several or sustained traumas and have greater functional impairment than those with PTSD. [169]
Over the years, the definition of CPTSD has shifted (including a proposal for DESNOS in DSM-IV and a diagnosis of EPCACE in ICD-10), with a different definition in the ICD-11 than per Dr. Herman's initial conceptualization. [74] The ICD-11 definition of CPTSD overlaps more with DSM-5 PTSD than earlier definitions of PTSD. [11]
The last disorder listed in the DSM-5 is post-traumatic stress disorder. "Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault."
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
Evidence-based, trauma-focused psychotherapy is the first-line treatment for PTSD. [8] [9] [6] Psychotherapy is defined as a treatment where a therapist and patient build a therapeutic relationship and focus on the patient's thoughts, attitudes, affect, behavior, and social development to lessen the patient's psychopathologies and functional impairment.
Post-traumatic Embitterment disorder; Specialty: Psychiatry, Clinical psychology: Symptoms: Severe emotional symptoms and behavioral problems in direct temporal connection to the triggering event; recurring intrusive thoughts; avolition; dysphoric-aggressive-depressive mood; unspecific somatic symptoms; phobic avoidance of persons or places related to the triggering event; fantasies of ...