PSYCHOPATHOLOGY EXAM 5 PRACTICE
ASSESSMENT 2026 CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION EXPERT CHECKED
◉ Acute Stress Disorder. Answer: - Exposure to a traumatic stressor
- Numerous PTSD-like symptoms develop from 4 PTSD symptom
categories
Duration: 3 days - 1 mo after trauma exposure
◉ Adjustment Disorder. Answer: Development of
significant/disproportional emotional/behavioral symptoms
- causal stressor AND no other disorder explains the symptoms
Due to an identifiable stressor:
- acute onset = develop w/in a few months of stressor onset
- brief duration = expected to resolve w/in several months after
stressor/consequences have terminated
Subtypes:
- with depressed mood
- with anxiety
,- with disturbance of conduct
- with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- with mixed disturbances of emotion & conduct
- unspecified
◉ Reactive Attachment Disorder. Answer: Inhibited and emotionally-
withdrawn behavior towards adult caregivers
◉ Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder. Answer: Overly familiar
behavior w/ relative strangers
◉ Dissociation. Answer: Splitting off from conscious awareness an
aspect of self usually as a coping strategy for stress
◉ Dissociative Amnesia. Answer: Memory loss for autobiographical
information, which doesn't occur due to another disorder
- localized: total loss of personal memory during a circumscribed
period
- selective: some recall of personal memories during a circumscribed
period of time
- generalized: loss of personal memory of entire life up to and
including event
,W/ dissociative fugue: purposeful travel/bewildered wandering
associated w/ amnesia for identify or autobiographical information
- brief (hours to days)
- unobtrusive lifestyle during fugue
- spontaneous termination of amnesia
- rarely recurs
◉ Dissociative Identity Disorder. Answer: Disruption of identity
characterized by > 2 distinct personality states:
- Primary (host)
- An alter
Inability to recall personal information
◉ Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder. Answer: - Either/both
depersonalization/derealization
- Reality testing remains intact
- Result in functional impairment
- Metabolic, neurologic, or pathological conditions should be
eliminated as casual agents
◉ Derealization. Answer: experiences of unreality or detachment
with respect to surroundings
, ◉ Depersonalization. Answer: experiences of unreality, detachment
or being an outside observer with respect to one's thoughts, feelings,
sensations, body or actions
◉ Major Depressive Disorder. Answer: - Must experience >1 MDE
- NO history of mania/hypomania (no swinging to opposite pole)
◉ Major Depressive Episode. Answer: At least 2wks of >5 (MUST be
1 OR 2)
Affective:
1) depressed mood
2) anhedonia
Neurovegetative:
3) significant weight change
4) insomnia/hypersomnia
5) loss of energy
Cognitive:
6) psychomotor changes
ASSESSMENT 2026 CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION EXPERT CHECKED
◉ Acute Stress Disorder. Answer: - Exposure to a traumatic stressor
- Numerous PTSD-like symptoms develop from 4 PTSD symptom
categories
Duration: 3 days - 1 mo after trauma exposure
◉ Adjustment Disorder. Answer: Development of
significant/disproportional emotional/behavioral symptoms
- causal stressor AND no other disorder explains the symptoms
Due to an identifiable stressor:
- acute onset = develop w/in a few months of stressor onset
- brief duration = expected to resolve w/in several months after
stressor/consequences have terminated
Subtypes:
- with depressed mood
- with anxiety
,- with disturbance of conduct
- with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- with mixed disturbances of emotion & conduct
- unspecified
◉ Reactive Attachment Disorder. Answer: Inhibited and emotionally-
withdrawn behavior towards adult caregivers
◉ Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder. Answer: Overly familiar
behavior w/ relative strangers
◉ Dissociation. Answer: Splitting off from conscious awareness an
aspect of self usually as a coping strategy for stress
◉ Dissociative Amnesia. Answer: Memory loss for autobiographical
information, which doesn't occur due to another disorder
- localized: total loss of personal memory during a circumscribed
period
- selective: some recall of personal memories during a circumscribed
period of time
- generalized: loss of personal memory of entire life up to and
including event
,W/ dissociative fugue: purposeful travel/bewildered wandering
associated w/ amnesia for identify or autobiographical information
- brief (hours to days)
- unobtrusive lifestyle during fugue
- spontaneous termination of amnesia
- rarely recurs
◉ Dissociative Identity Disorder. Answer: Disruption of identity
characterized by > 2 distinct personality states:
- Primary (host)
- An alter
Inability to recall personal information
◉ Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder. Answer: - Either/both
depersonalization/derealization
- Reality testing remains intact
- Result in functional impairment
- Metabolic, neurologic, or pathological conditions should be
eliminated as casual agents
◉ Derealization. Answer: experiences of unreality or detachment
with respect to surroundings
, ◉ Depersonalization. Answer: experiences of unreality, detachment
or being an outside observer with respect to one's thoughts, feelings,
sensations, body or actions
◉ Major Depressive Disorder. Answer: - Must experience >1 MDE
- NO history of mania/hypomania (no swinging to opposite pole)
◉ Major Depressive Episode. Answer: At least 2wks of >5 (MUST be
1 OR 2)
Affective:
1) depressed mood
2) anhedonia
Neurovegetative:
3) significant weight change
4) insomnia/hypersomnia
5) loss of energy
Cognitive:
6) psychomotor changes
