Other Specified Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder

Other specified Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder described, DSM5 code 309.89 ICD F43.8 ===Diagnostic Criteria=== DSM-5 code 309.89, ICD-10 code F43.8. The DSM-5 description states that symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impaired functioning predominate, but do not fully meet the criteria for another disorder in the category. The specific reason that the other trauma- and stressor-related disorder criteria are not met must be recorded, and the stressor needs to be specified. Examples may include:
 * Adjustment Disorder lasting more than six months (without prolonged duration of the stressor)
 * Adjustment Disorder which does not begin for three or more months after the stressor
 * PTSD which does not fully meet all criteria (subthreshold PTSD)
 * Ataque de nervios (attack of the nerves), a cultural syndrome among Latin Americans
 * Other cultural syndromes
 * Persistent complex bereavement (severe and persistent grief and mourning reactions, including impaired psychosocial functional or clinical distress), the intensity, duration or quality of bereavement is beyond that expected. APA (2013)