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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Rev. 2008 Oct;115(4):985–1011. doi: 10.1037/a0013397

Table 1.

Requirements for PTSD.

A1. The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others.
A2. The person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
B. The traumatic event is persistently reexperienced
C. There is persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness
D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal
E. For more than a month
F. That causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.