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NCE: DSM-5 Exam Study Guide.
Categories - answer✔✔Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Bipolar
Depressive
Anxiety
OCD
Trauma and Stress
Dissociative
Somatic
Feeding & Eating
Sleep Wake
Sexual
Gender Dysforia
Disruptive, Impulse Control, Conduct
Substance Related and Addictive
Neurocognitive
Paraphilic
Single Axis - answer✔✔Axis 1-3 combined into 1 with all psychological and medical conditions
listed together. Then, list V codes for psychosocial and environmental contributing factors. Then
list WHO Disability Assessment Schedule for disability (replaces GAF).
ICD-9-CM - answer✔✔Published by WHO. Contains medical code number needed for
insurance companies.
Intellectual Disability - answer✔✔New name for Mental Retardation
1. IQ of 70 or below on individually administered test.
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2. Impairments in adaptive functioning in +2 areas
3. Onset before 18.
Specific Learning Disorder - answer✔✔Individual's achievement on standardized tests of
reading, math, or written expression are below that expected for age, schooling, and intelligence
level.
Autism Spectrum Disorder - answer✔✔Combines Autism, Aspergers, Pervasive Developmental
Disorder, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.
1. Impairment in social interaction in +2 areas (no nonverbals, no social interactions)
2. Impairment in communication (no speech, repetitive speech)
3. Restricted repetitive stereotyped patterns of behavior
AD/HD - answer✔✔Type: Combined, Inattentive, or Hyperactive-Impulsive
1. +6 symptoms of inattention or hyperactivity.
2. Onset before age 12.
Conduct Disorder - answer✔✔Persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others
or societal norms are violated.
1. Aggression to people and animals; Destruction of Property, Deceitfulness or Theft; Serious
violation of rules
Oppositional Defiant Disorder - answer✔✔Pattern of negative, hostile, and defiant emotions and
behavior.
1. Angry/irritable, argumentative/defiant, vindictive categories of criteria.
Substance Use Disoder - answer✔✔Combines criteria for substance abuse and dependence.
1. Tolerance
2. Withdrawal
3. Substance use in large amounts
4. Continued use despite physical hazards, legal problems, social or interpersonal problems
Separate criteria for substance intoxication, withdrawal, substance-induced mental disorders, and
criteria for each kind of substance dependence
Gambling Disorder - answer✔✔Included in substance-related disorder chapter to indicate how
gambling works on the pleasure centers of the brain in the same way that drugs do.
NCE: DSM-5 Exam Study Guide.
Categories - answer✔✔Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Bipolar
Depressive
Anxiety
OCD
Trauma and Stress
Dissociative
Somatic
Feeding & Eating
Sleep Wake
Sexual
Gender Dysforia
Disruptive, Impulse Control, Conduct
Substance Related and Addictive
Neurocognitive
Paraphilic
Single Axis - answer✔✔Axis 1-3 combined into 1 with all psychological and medical conditions
listed together. Then, list V codes for psychosocial and environmental contributing factors. Then
list WHO Disability Assessment Schedule for disability (replaces GAF).
ICD-9-CM - answer✔✔Published by WHO. Contains medical code number needed for
insurance companies.
Intellectual Disability - answer✔✔New name for Mental Retardation
1. IQ of 70 or below on individually administered test.
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2. Impairments in adaptive functioning in +2 areas
3. Onset before 18.
Specific Learning Disorder - answer✔✔Individual's achievement on standardized tests of
reading, math, or written expression are below that expected for age, schooling, and intelligence
level.
Autism Spectrum Disorder - answer✔✔Combines Autism, Aspergers, Pervasive Developmental
Disorder, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.
1. Impairment in social interaction in +2 areas (no nonverbals, no social interactions)
2. Impairment in communication (no speech, repetitive speech)
3. Restricted repetitive stereotyped patterns of behavior
AD/HD - answer✔✔Type: Combined, Inattentive, or Hyperactive-Impulsive
1. +6 symptoms of inattention or hyperactivity.
2. Onset before age 12.
Conduct Disorder - answer✔✔Persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others
or societal norms are violated.
1. Aggression to people and animals; Destruction of Property, Deceitfulness or Theft; Serious
violation of rules
Oppositional Defiant Disorder - answer✔✔Pattern of negative, hostile, and defiant emotions and
behavior.
1. Angry/irritable, argumentative/defiant, vindictive categories of criteria.
Substance Use Disoder - answer✔✔Combines criteria for substance abuse and dependence.
1. Tolerance
2. Withdrawal
3. Substance use in large amounts
4. Continued use despite physical hazards, legal problems, social or interpersonal problems
Separate criteria for substance intoxication, withdrawal, substance-induced mental disorders, and
criteria for each kind of substance dependence
Gambling Disorder - answer✔✔Included in substance-related disorder chapter to indicate how
gambling works on the pleasure centers of the brain in the same way that drugs do.
