NCMHCE TEST EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Cyclothymic disorder duration - ✔✔Adults is two years children is one year
✔✔Gambling disorder duration - ✔✔Symptoms occur over a 12 month period
✔✔Gender dysphoria duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Generalized anxiety disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Histrionic personality disorder duration - ✔✔Begins and early adulthood
✔✔Major depressive disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is two weeks
✔✔Narcissistic personality disorder duration - ✔✔Begins by adulthood
✔✔Narcolepsy duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is three months
✔✔Obsessive compulsive disorder duration - ✔✔Typical age of onset is adolescence or
early adulthood good and is usually chronic
✔✔Oppositional defined disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Insomnia disorder duration - ✔✔Three nights per week for minimum three months.
Symptoms last more than one month but less than three
✔✔Illness anxiety disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Panic disorder duration - ✔✔Attack followed by minimum one month of additional
symptoms relating to attack
, ✔✔Persistent depressive disorder duration - ✔✔Adults is two years children as one
✔✔PTSD duration - ✔✔One month
✔✔Schizoaffective disorder duration - ✔✔Mood symptoms need to be present during at
least two psychotic episodes that last for the majority of the illness and that periods
without mood systems last for two weeks but still have delusions or hallucinations
✔✔Schizoid personality disorder duration - ✔✔Usually develops in childhood or
adolescence
✔✔Schizophrenia duration - ✔✔Duration is chronic after six months
✔✔Schizophreniform disorder duration - ✔✔Usually last from at least one month to six
months
✔✔Selective mutism duration - ✔✔Usually before age 5 minimum duration is one month
to ration ranges from a few months to several years
✔✔Separation anxiety disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration and children is four
weeks minimum duration and adults is six months
✔✔Specific phobia duration - ✔✔Six months
✔✔Tourette's disorder duration - ✔✔Must be present for more than one year
✔✔Transfer stick disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Intermittent explosive disorder duration - ✔✔Age of onset is typically late childhood
with symptoms typically persisting for years
✔✔Unacceptable feelings are sent to the unconscience - ✔✔Regression
✔✔Helping others to avoid unacceptable personal feelings - ✔✔Altruism
✔✔Uncomfortable feelings are expressed in a humorous mood - ✔✔Humor
✔✔Modifies unacceptable feelings to be more socially acceptable - ✔✔Sublimation
✔✔Unacceptable feelings are not dealt with - ✔✔Suppression
✔✔Behaving in a socially unacceptable way to avoid feelings - ✔✔Acting out
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Cyclothymic disorder duration - ✔✔Adults is two years children is one year
✔✔Gambling disorder duration - ✔✔Symptoms occur over a 12 month period
✔✔Gender dysphoria duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Generalized anxiety disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Histrionic personality disorder duration - ✔✔Begins and early adulthood
✔✔Major depressive disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is two weeks
✔✔Narcissistic personality disorder duration - ✔✔Begins by adulthood
✔✔Narcolepsy duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is three months
✔✔Obsessive compulsive disorder duration - ✔✔Typical age of onset is adolescence or
early adulthood good and is usually chronic
✔✔Oppositional defined disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Insomnia disorder duration - ✔✔Three nights per week for minimum three months.
Symptoms last more than one month but less than three
✔✔Illness anxiety disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Panic disorder duration - ✔✔Attack followed by minimum one month of additional
symptoms relating to attack
, ✔✔Persistent depressive disorder duration - ✔✔Adults is two years children as one
✔✔PTSD duration - ✔✔One month
✔✔Schizoaffective disorder duration - ✔✔Mood symptoms need to be present during at
least two psychotic episodes that last for the majority of the illness and that periods
without mood systems last for two weeks but still have delusions or hallucinations
✔✔Schizoid personality disorder duration - ✔✔Usually develops in childhood or
adolescence
✔✔Schizophrenia duration - ✔✔Duration is chronic after six months
✔✔Schizophreniform disorder duration - ✔✔Usually last from at least one month to six
months
✔✔Selective mutism duration - ✔✔Usually before age 5 minimum duration is one month
to ration ranges from a few months to several years
✔✔Separation anxiety disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration and children is four
weeks minimum duration and adults is six months
✔✔Specific phobia duration - ✔✔Six months
✔✔Tourette's disorder duration - ✔✔Must be present for more than one year
✔✔Transfer stick disorder duration - ✔✔Minimum duration is six months
✔✔Intermittent explosive disorder duration - ✔✔Age of onset is typically late childhood
with symptoms typically persisting for years
✔✔Unacceptable feelings are sent to the unconscience - ✔✔Regression
✔✔Helping others to avoid unacceptable personal feelings - ✔✔Altruism
✔✔Uncomfortable feelings are expressed in a humorous mood - ✔✔Humor
✔✔Modifies unacceptable feelings to be more socially acceptable - ✔✔Sublimation
✔✔Unacceptable feelings are not dealt with - ✔✔Suppression
✔✔Behaving in a socially unacceptable way to avoid feelings - ✔✔Acting out
