Official diagnostic criteria describe which symptoms are necessary for any particular diagnosis. What is a diagnosis?Ī diagnosis is a formal label that describes a certain set of problems or symptoms.
PTSD does not describe the full range of reactions to traumatic events there will be many children and young people who are ‘traumatised’ by events, but their particular difficulties will not fulfil the criteria for PTSD. PTSD is the diagnostic label used to describe a particular profile of symptoms that people sometimes develop after experiencing or witnessing a potentially traumatic event or events.
