NCMHCE LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔SCID-I and SCID-II - ✔✔A set of questions to be used in conjunction with the bipolar
spectrum diagnostic scale. Measures mood episodes, psychotic symptoms and
disorders, mood disorders, substance use disorders, anxiety, adjustment disorders.
✔✔BSDS - ✔✔Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale - identifies presence or absence of
bipolar disorder.
✔✔MDQ - ✔✔Mood Disorder Questionnaire - easy SCREENING tool for detecting
bipolar I or disorder. NOTE: It is NOT used for monitoring for improvement.
✔✔DAST and SMAST - ✔✔Drug Abuse Screening Test (for drugs) and Short Michigan
Alcoholism Test (for people with drinking problems)
✔✔DES - ✔✔Dissociative Experiences Scale is used in tandem with the SCID-D (for
dissociative disorders
✔✔WISC-IV and WPPSI-III - ✔✔Wechsler Intelligence Scales for ages 6-16, the WPPSI
is for age 2.5-7.
✔✔CDI - ✔✔Children's Depression Inventory is FOR PARENTS about their children for
ages 7-17.
✔✔RCMAS-2 - ✔✔Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale - most widely used
questionnaire assesses type and level of anxiety in ages 6-19.
✔✔Achenback system of Emprically Based Assessment (ASEBA) - ✔✔for ages 6-18
measures affective, anxiety, somatic, ADH, oppositional defiant and conduct problems.
✔✔Behavior Assessment System for Children - ✔✔Used to evaluate behavior and self-
perceptions of children - one for TEACHERS and one for PARENTS.
✔✔Conners 3 - Parent, Teacher, Adolescent Forms - ✔✔For ages 6-18. Short and long
forms for each. IDs ADHD and late disorders.
✔✔Intellectual Disability (in children) - ✔✔I: Wechsler Intelligence Test and Stanford-
Binet Scales
DD: ADHD, Depressive & Bipolar Disorders, anxiety
Tx: Behavior Modification for self injury, parent training and community based Tx and
individual psychotherapy
, ✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔I: Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Disorders
Screening Test II, the Social Communication Questionnaire, Taylor and Jaspers's Social
Skills Inventory
DD: Specific learning difficulties, coordination disorders, medical conditions
Tx: Behavioral, floor technique, the Pervasive Development Pivotal Response Training
✔✔ADHD - ✔✔I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Behavior Assessment System
for Children, Conner's Rating Scale-R, Conner's Teacher Rating Scales.
DD: OppDefi, Conduct Disorder
Tx: Stimulant medications, parent training, counseling, behavioral targeted classroom
intervention, social skills, intereferes with functioning in social, academic and
occupational domains.
✔✔Conduct Disorder (CD) - ✔✔I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist and Behavior
Assessment System
DD: Antisocial personality disorder, specific learning disorders
Tx: Problem-Solving Skill dysregulation, imulsivity social skills, anger management,
parent management
✔✔Oppositional Defiant (OD) - ✔✔I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Behavioral
Assessment System, Conner's Teacher Rating Scales-R
DD: Conduct Disorder, ADHD, anxiety/depression
Tx:Problem-Solving Skills Training (PSST), Cognitive, Behavioral, Individual Therapy.
✔✔Separation Ansiety (SAD) in children - ✔✔I: Child's Depression Inventory, The
Washington University Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, Young
Mania Rating Scale
DD: GAD, specific phobia
Tx: Exposure Therapy (highly effective), Cognitive-Behavioral, Coping Cat Model
✔✔Bipolar 1 (in children) - ✔✔I: Child's Depression Inventory, The Washington
University Schedule, Young Mania Rating Scale
DD: Anxiety disorders, panic disorder
Tx: CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Combination family focused and CBT,
psychoeducational and maybe DBT
✔✔PTSD (in Children) - ✔✔I: Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children, Beck Anxiety
Inventory
DD: Depressive, bipolar, anxiety, substance use
Tx: CBT, Exposure Therapy, Emotion Focused Cognitive-Behavioral, Trauma Focused
CBT
✔✔Adjustment Disorder (6 types) - ✔✔I: The SCAD
DD: Most mental health disorders
RATED A+
✔✔SCID-I and SCID-II - ✔✔A set of questions to be used in conjunction with the bipolar
spectrum diagnostic scale. Measures mood episodes, psychotic symptoms and
disorders, mood disorders, substance use disorders, anxiety, adjustment disorders.
✔✔BSDS - ✔✔Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale - identifies presence or absence of
bipolar disorder.
✔✔MDQ - ✔✔Mood Disorder Questionnaire - easy SCREENING tool for detecting
bipolar I or disorder. NOTE: It is NOT used for monitoring for improvement.
✔✔DAST and SMAST - ✔✔Drug Abuse Screening Test (for drugs) and Short Michigan
Alcoholism Test (for people with drinking problems)
✔✔DES - ✔✔Dissociative Experiences Scale is used in tandem with the SCID-D (for
dissociative disorders
✔✔WISC-IV and WPPSI-III - ✔✔Wechsler Intelligence Scales for ages 6-16, the WPPSI
is for age 2.5-7.
✔✔CDI - ✔✔Children's Depression Inventory is FOR PARENTS about their children for
ages 7-17.
✔✔RCMAS-2 - ✔✔Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale - most widely used
questionnaire assesses type and level of anxiety in ages 6-19.
✔✔Achenback system of Emprically Based Assessment (ASEBA) - ✔✔for ages 6-18
measures affective, anxiety, somatic, ADH, oppositional defiant and conduct problems.
✔✔Behavior Assessment System for Children - ✔✔Used to evaluate behavior and self-
perceptions of children - one for TEACHERS and one for PARENTS.
✔✔Conners 3 - Parent, Teacher, Adolescent Forms - ✔✔For ages 6-18. Short and long
forms for each. IDs ADHD and late disorders.
✔✔Intellectual Disability (in children) - ✔✔I: Wechsler Intelligence Test and Stanford-
Binet Scales
DD: ADHD, Depressive & Bipolar Disorders, anxiety
Tx: Behavior Modification for self injury, parent training and community based Tx and
individual psychotherapy
, ✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔I: Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Disorders
Screening Test II, the Social Communication Questionnaire, Taylor and Jaspers's Social
Skills Inventory
DD: Specific learning difficulties, coordination disorders, medical conditions
Tx: Behavioral, floor technique, the Pervasive Development Pivotal Response Training
✔✔ADHD - ✔✔I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Behavior Assessment System
for Children, Conner's Rating Scale-R, Conner's Teacher Rating Scales.
DD: OppDefi, Conduct Disorder
Tx: Stimulant medications, parent training, counseling, behavioral targeted classroom
intervention, social skills, intereferes with functioning in social, academic and
occupational domains.
✔✔Conduct Disorder (CD) - ✔✔I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist and Behavior
Assessment System
DD: Antisocial personality disorder, specific learning disorders
Tx: Problem-Solving Skill dysregulation, imulsivity social skills, anger management,
parent management
✔✔Oppositional Defiant (OD) - ✔✔I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Behavioral
Assessment System, Conner's Teacher Rating Scales-R
DD: Conduct Disorder, ADHD, anxiety/depression
Tx:Problem-Solving Skills Training (PSST), Cognitive, Behavioral, Individual Therapy.
✔✔Separation Ansiety (SAD) in children - ✔✔I: Child's Depression Inventory, The
Washington University Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, Young
Mania Rating Scale
DD: GAD, specific phobia
Tx: Exposure Therapy (highly effective), Cognitive-Behavioral, Coping Cat Model
✔✔Bipolar 1 (in children) - ✔✔I: Child's Depression Inventory, The Washington
University Schedule, Young Mania Rating Scale
DD: Anxiety disorders, panic disorder
Tx: CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Combination family focused and CBT,
psychoeducational and maybe DBT
✔✔PTSD (in Children) - ✔✔I: Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children, Beck Anxiety
Inventory
DD: Depressive, bipolar, anxiety, substance use
Tx: CBT, Exposure Therapy, Emotion Focused Cognitive-Behavioral, Trauma Focused
CBT
✔✔Adjustment Disorder (6 types) - ✔✔I: The SCAD
DD: Most mental health disorders
