Please find below a list of disorders that are currently proposed for the diagnostic category, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. This category contains diagnoses that were listed in DSM-IV under the chapter of Anxiety Disorders and the chapter of Adjustment Disorders. The Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group has been responsible for addressing these revisions. Many of the disorders that were previously listed in the Anxiety Disorders chapter in DSM-IV have been distributed throughout this chapter as well as separate chapters on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders and Anxiety Disorders. For a comprehensive review of all anxiety and related disorders, please be sure to visit those chapters as well. For a recent review of evidence on classifying trauma and stress related disorders, please review a recent article published in Depression & Anxiety (2011; 28: 737-749) authored by Friedman et al.
Among the most recent revisions to this diagnostic category is revised criteria for the proposed disorder, Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder. This is being proposed for Section III, a section of DSM-5 in which conditions that require further research will be included. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder now has a subtype for PTSD in preschool children rather than having this subtype exist as a separate diagnosis. A dissociative symptoms subtype has also been added to this disorder. In the Adjustment DIsorders, a 6 month requirement for children for the bereavement related subtype has been added, and the disorder includes minor wording changes, including changes to the bereavement related subtype. Finally, the work group has proposed criteria for Trauma- or Stressor- Related Disorder Not Elsewhere Classified. We appreciate your review and comment on these disorders.