F43.2

Applicable To

• Culture shock

• Grief reaction

• Hospitalism in children

Clinical Information

• A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by emotional or behavioral symptoms that develop within 3 months of a stressor and do not persist for more than an additional 6 months after the stressor is no longer present.

• A condition in which a person responds to a stressful event such as an illness, job loss, or divorce) with extreme emotions and actions that cause problems at work and home.

• Feeling of great sorrow

• Maladaptive reaction to psychosocial stressors which impairs social or occupational functioning. Usually a temporary condition that remits after new levels of adaptation are obtained or stressors have been removed.

• Maladaptive reactions to identifiable psychosocial stressors occurring within a short time after onset of the stressor. They are manifested by either impairment in social or occupational functioning or by symptoms depression, anxiety, etc.) that are in excess of a normal and expected reaction to the stressor.

• Normal, appropriate sorrowful response to an immediate cause. It is self-limiting and gradually subsides within a reasonable time.

• Social, psychological, or emotional difficulties in adapting to a new culture or similar difficulties in adapting to one’s own culture as the result of rapid social or cultural changes.

• Sorrowful response to an immediate cause; self-limiting and gradually subsides within a reasonable time.

• Suffering and distress associated with loss.

Details

• F43.2 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM F43.2 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of F43.2 – other international versions of ICD-10 F43.2 may differ.