PSY8119-4 Problems of Anxiety

Anxiety Problems. Annie is experiencing clinical symptoms of Adjustment Problems with Disturbance of Conduct which the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) published 1994, classified as Alexis I V 309.3. This diagnostic possibility is based on two educated conjectures and inference. a) Axis I V 309.3 definition of Adjustment problems with Disturbance of Conduct. b) And Annie’s clinical symptoms of social factors.

Alexis I V 309.3 overview As stated in Axis I V 309.3 adjustment problems occurs when a person shows a marked behavioral or emotional symptoms when he or she responses to a known stressor or group of stressors. These may be significant or minor stressors such as, relocating to a new environment, receiving a poor evaluation report, or losing a long last girlfriend or boyfriend. As stated in Axis I V 309.3 cognitive development, age, and past experience such as, repeated trauma regardless of the distant past, has also been implicated as possible risk factors that could influence the development of Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct. As noted in Axis I V 309.3 symptoms associated with adjustment problems with disturbance of conduct includes, lack of focus, distraction, poor performance, sometimes tearfulness, fright and worrying without legitimate reason of any pending threat. Even though, as Axis I V 309.3 noted, these conditions may not rise to the standard of psychosocial problem because it has only lasted for one month in this case, even with the association of fear. However, they could be acute or chronic, depending on the duration of more or less than six months of continued symptoms. As Williams (2008) noted, adjustment problems are transitory. They progress from mild to severe. For example, the more