Specifically, it is pertinent to direct attention and research efforts to approach EC aiming the large amount of people that experience trauma episodes but will not develop a disorder.
those characteristics, variables, or hazards that, if present for a given individual, make it more likely that this individual, rather than someone selected from the general population, will develop a disorder.
According to Garmezy (1983), and Werner and Smith (1992), risk factors can be defined as follows: those characteristics, variables, or hazards that, if present for a given individual, make it more likely that this individual, rather than someone selected from the general population, will develop a disorder.
Because of the high prevalence of mental disorders in the community, every person will either develop a disorder themselves or have close contact with someone who does.
15 The liability threshold model of disorders assumes that everyone in a population is to a greater or lesser degree liable to develop a disorder, with diagnostic thresholds identifying those above a certain level of liability.
Only about 10% HTLV-1-infected subjects develop a disorder related to the virus during their life, including adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, HTLV-1-associated myelopathy, uveitis, and opportunistic infections (including strongyloidiasis).
