Other Specified Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorder

This category applies to presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a trauma- and stressor-related disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning predominate but do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the trauma- and stressor-related disorders diagnostic class.

  • Adjustment-like disorders with delayed onset of symptoms that occur more than 3 months after the stressor.

  • Adjustment-like disorders with prolonged duration of more than 6 months without prolonged duration of stressor.

  • Ataque de nervios.

  • Persistent complex bereavement disorder (severe and persistent grief and mourning reactions).