Duc Tran Dong, a forty-two year-old Vietnamese immigrant was held up at gunpoint and

shot in the arm one year ago working as a clerk in the neighborhood convenience store.
Within the last two weeks he has begun experiencing symptoms of posttraumatic stress
disorder. You are his social worker. What would help you to decide whether his diagnosis
posttraumatic stress disorder could be characterized as acute, chronic, delayed onset or
residual?



a) Time
b) Nature of the event alone
c) Severity and intensity of the incident
d) Family history of anxiety


a)

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