[Download Now] Trauma and the DSM-5® with Bessel van der Kolk, MD – Bessel Van der Kolk

There are ten times as many domestic violence, neglect and abuse victims in the US as there are in Iraq and Afghanistan. The current DSM-IV® conceptualization ofPTSD does not reflect the symptoms experienced by the vast majority of these children. Abused and neglected children receive a wide range of diagnoses such as conduct disorder, borderline personality disorder, and anxiety disorders. The fear, shame, terror and rage that derive from real threats to these children’s survival are related to all of these diagnoses.

Insurance reimbursement, treatment development and clinical research are all affected by the lack of proper diagnosis. These children are condemned to receive treatments that are likely to be ineffective and therefore put them at risk to grow up to be unproductive, expensive, potentially dangerous, and long-suffering members of our society.

In response to the neglect of our nation’s greatest public health threat, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s DSM-5® Task Force has proposed a new clinical syndrome. There are five clusters of symptoms that describe children who have suffered trauma.

• Affect and impulse dysregulation
• Disturbances of attention, cognition, and consciousness
• Distortions in self-perception and systems of meaning
• Interpersonal difficulties
• Somatization and biological dysregulation

The presentation will review the development of the DSM-5® as a diagnosis and its implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

• Describe the development of Developmental Trauma Disorder.
• Explain the current DSM-5® position on DTD.
• Summarize the five clusters of symptoms that characterize many children who have suffered repeated trauma.

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