The Fifth Edition of the DSM ( DSM-5) includes a new developmental subtype of PTSD called Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in preschool children. This is important to consider particularly in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) because, although PTSD has been widely reported in children and adolescents, the DSM-IV criteria were developed before substantial numbers of studies had been conducted on young children (1). Furthermore, there may be sufficient differences in the expressions of some disorders to justify an age-related subtype of the disorder. Research has suggested that individuals of different ages may express features of the same criteria somewhat differently. VA Software Documentation Library (VDL)Ī challenge for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) taxonomy has always been to consider developmental differences in the expressions of disorders in different age groups.
Clinical Trainees (Academic Affiliations).
