APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
Issues with DSM-5 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder’s 639,120 Unique Pattern Symptom Sequences That Validly Cross the Diagnostic Threshold and Empirically Categorize Individuals.
- Jeffrey Knight
Boston University School of Medicine - Angela Berlingeri
National Center for PTSD - Angela Berlingeri
VA Boston Healthcare System - Aaron Fox
Independent Consultants, Ltd.
Abstract
639,120 theoretically possible Unique Pattern Sequences (UPS) characterized PTSD’s DSM-5 diagnostic heterogeneity and contrasted with actual UPS variability in real-world samples. Similar diagnostic data sources yielded discrepant UPS distributions. Longitudinal PTSD assessment showed stable UPS patterns; in contrast, pre-post trauma treatment measurement showed changed and restricted ranges of UPS distributions.
Psychopathology