Answer to Question #258644 in Psychology for Andile

Question

what conditions have to be met before a person can be diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder

Answer 1

The conditions that have to be met to diagnose a person with post-traumatic stress disorder are the DSM-5. One of these conditions is that the patient needs to have experienced one or even more traumatic events. Also, the person gets involved in threatened injury or death or learns that this occurred to a friend, and the person may get exposed to threatened or real sexual violence.