Posttraumatic Disorders In Icd-10, Icd-11 And Dsm-5 Diagnostic Criteria And Their Importance For The Assessment Practice

Posttraumatic disorders are heterogeneous and not uncommonly accompanied by comorbid disorders. In this article the various diagnostic criteria of the International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10), the ICD-11 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5) for posttraumatic stress disorder and for the diagnosis of complex posttraumatic stress disorder only included in ICD-11 are presented. The importance of the divergent diagnostics for the forensic psychiatric assessment practice are also discussed. The assessment of posttraumatic disorders is a very complex task, especially as frequently not an isolated trauma but several traumata of different quality can also be present.