Table 2. Describes the conditions diagnosed by PHR medical experts.
Gender | Age | Country of Origin | Diagnoses |
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Psychiatric Diagnoses in Adults (16 out of 19) | |||
Male | 33 | Honduras | Criteria not met for DSM-V diagnoses (but patient exhibited several symptoms suggestive of trauma)# |
Female | Adult* | Guatemala | PTSD, MDD with anxious distress |
Female | 45 | El Salvador | PTSD |
Female | 29 | Guatemala | PTSD, MDD |
Female | 30 | Honduras | PTSD |
Female | 27 | Guatemala | Complex PTSD |
Female | 24 | [Redacted] | Features of PTSD, MDD, GAD, no official diagnoses |
Female | Adult* | El Salvador | PTSD |
Female | 29 | Honduras | MDD, features of PTSD, GAD |
Female | 24 | Honduras | MDD, PTSD |
Female | 26 | Honduras | PTSD, MDD, recurrent, severe |
Male | 32 | Honduras | PTSD, features of GAD, MDDψ |
Female | 28 | El Salvador | PTSD |
Female | 39 | Honduras | PTSD, MDD, recurrent and severe |
Male | 40 | El Salvador | PTSD |
Female | Adult* | Honduras | PTSD |
Male | 36 | El Salvador | Criteria not met for DSM-V diagnoses (but patient exhibited several symptoms suggestive of trauma) |
Female | 35 | Guatemala | PTSD |
Female | 36 | Guatemala | PTSD, MDD |
Psychiatric Diagnoses in Children (12 out of 12) | |||
Male | 9 | Honduras | PTSD |
Male | 17 | El Salvador | PTSD |
Male | 8 | Honduras | PTSD, MDD recurrent, moderate |
Female | 6 | Guatemala | PTSD, separation anxiety disorder, Depression |
Female | 7 | El Salvador | separation anxiety disorder |
Male | 8 | Honduras | PTSD |
Male | 6 | Guatemala | PTSD, split personality features, anxiety, depression |
Male | 8 | Honduras | Depression, anxiety |
Female | 6 | Guatemala | PTSD |
Male | 16 | Guatemala | PTSD |
Female | 14 | El Salvador | PTSD |
Male | 8 | Honduras | PTSD, separation anxiety disorder |
* Ages of three mothers were redacted at their attorneys’ request.
# The client continues to have difficulty thinking about the separation from his daughter, avoids speaking about it, becomes visibly emotional and tearful when he does and is fearful they will be separated again, but was reluctant to speak about his own difficulties, wanting to focus on his family’s needs. The evaluator pointed to multiple resilience factors which are attributed to his psychological wellbeing, including his commitment to his family, his religious faith and his realistic optimism about the future.
ψ The client was described as “overtly distressed and tearful on several occasions when describing past experiences” but appeared to “minimize the severity of his symptoms, as evidenced by the mood scores he provided, which were not always consistent with his affect during the course of the evaluation”. The evaluator attributed this discrepancy to “his longstanding limited insight, which is most likely due to his education, social, and cultural backgrounds”.