NCMHCE LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Adjustment Disorder (6 types) - ✔✔I: The SCAD
DD: Most mental health disorders
Tx: Crisis-Intervention Model - Relieving acute symptoms, brief psychodynamic
psychotherapy
✔✔Major Depressive Disorder - ✔✔I: Beck Depression Inventory, Hamilton Rating
Scale, SCID
DD: Substance related disorders, panic disorder, OCD
Tx: CBT, low level of social functioning perform best with interpersonal psychotherapy.
New therapies are Behvioral Activation Therapy, CBT-1, Mindfulness, exercise, Vagus
nerve therapy
✔✔Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymic disorders) - ✔✔I: Beck Depression
Inventory, Steen Happiness Index
DD: Anxiety Disorder and substance use disorders
Tx: CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Social Skills, Assertiveness and decision making
✔✔Bipolar Disorder - ✔✔I: SCID, The Treatment Attitudes Questionnaire, Bipolar 2 use
the hypomania checklist 32
DD: Panic attack, social anxiety, ADHD, conduct disorder, impulse control, substance
use, intermittent explosive, opp-defi
Tx: Medication first line, family focused psycho-educational treatment, social rhythm
therapy and CBT, group therapy during recovery
Combination Tx: Family focused therapy, IPT with social rhythm therapy, and CBT. Also
good are day treatment, group therapy, self-help groups, electroconvulsive therapy and
Vagus Nerve stimulation.
✔✔Cyclothymic Disorder - ✔✔I: Hypomanic Checklist
DD: Substance related and sleep disorders
Tx: IPF, FFT, regulating sleep, circadian rhhthms and social rhythm. career counseling,
interpersonal skill development, group counseling. Immediate family often has bipolar or
hx of being hypersensitive.
✔✔ANXIETY DISORDERS - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Anxiety Disorders Interview
Schedule and Structured Clinical
Ethnicity: African Americans tend to use gratitude and religiosity more than Europeans.
Panic disorder co-exists with sleep paralysis more frequently in African Americans
(60%) than Caucasians (8%). Hispanic patients may experience uncontrollable
behaviors. Cambodian refugees have a high incidence of Panic disorder with physical
discomfort.
Tx: DBT, Exposure therapy, acceptance-based therapy, group therapy, cultural factors.
, ✔✔Panic Disorder - ✔✔I: ADVIS - measures avoidance, severity of panic; Burns
Anxiety Inventory
DD: Anxiety disorders, agoraphobia, major deprsesion, bipolar disorder, alcohol use
Tx: CBT, panic control therapy, ACT, SFIT, family support, group therapy & Systematic
Desensitization
✔✔Phobias - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Burns Anxiety Inventory
Tx: Exposure-based as relaxation training, breathing retraining and paradoxical
intention
✔✔Agoraphobia - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia,
Agoraphobic Cognition Questionnaire
DD: Anxiety disorders, panic disorder, social anxiety, depressive
Tx: Panic Control Therapy (PCT) is well documented
✔✔Social Anxiety Disorder - ✔✔I: Fear of Negative Evaluation and Social Interaction
Anxiety Scale, Achenbach for aged 6-18 or Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale
for 6-19
DD: Anxiety Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, Substance Use disorder
Tx: CBT, CBGT (group version), Exposure, cognitive restructuring, social skills training,
relaxation, homework, role playing, mindfulness, attention training..
✔✔Obsessive-Compulsive - ✔✔I: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale,
Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised
DD: Panic Disorder, social anxiety disorder, GAD, specific phobia, bipolar disorder, tic,
body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, excoriation, schizophrenia/schizoaffective
Tx: Exposure, response prevention, cognitive approaches that focus on thinking,
checking family
✔✔PTSD - ✔✔I: The Clinician Administered PTSD Scale, the PTSD Checklist, for
children K-SADS PTSD section, Child Behavior Checklist, Childhood Trauma
Questionnaire, Phsychometric Evaluation of the Children's Impact of Traumatic Events
Scale-R.
DD: Depressive, bipolar, anxiety and substance use disorders
Tx: Prolonged exposure therapy (BEST), Cognitive processing therapy (for sexual
assault/traumatic brain injury), anxiety management training; EMDR, Group and family
therapy, stress inoculation training.
✔✔Generalized Anxiety Disorder - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, The Penn State Worry
Questionnaire Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule
DD: Anxiety Disorder, unipolar disorder
Tx: CBT, affective therapy (AWARE),
✔✔Alcohol Related - ✔✔I: Rapid Alcohol Problems Screen, Michigan Alcoholism
Screening Test, MAST, CAGE, Alcohol Use Disorders ID Test
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Adjustment Disorder (6 types) - ✔✔I: The SCAD
DD: Most mental health disorders
Tx: Crisis-Intervention Model - Relieving acute symptoms, brief psychodynamic
psychotherapy
✔✔Major Depressive Disorder - ✔✔I: Beck Depression Inventory, Hamilton Rating
Scale, SCID
DD: Substance related disorders, panic disorder, OCD
Tx: CBT, low level of social functioning perform best with interpersonal psychotherapy.
New therapies are Behvioral Activation Therapy, CBT-1, Mindfulness, exercise, Vagus
nerve therapy
✔✔Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymic disorders) - ✔✔I: Beck Depression
Inventory, Steen Happiness Index
DD: Anxiety Disorder and substance use disorders
Tx: CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Social Skills, Assertiveness and decision making
✔✔Bipolar Disorder - ✔✔I: SCID, The Treatment Attitudes Questionnaire, Bipolar 2 use
the hypomania checklist 32
DD: Panic attack, social anxiety, ADHD, conduct disorder, impulse control, substance
use, intermittent explosive, opp-defi
Tx: Medication first line, family focused psycho-educational treatment, social rhythm
therapy and CBT, group therapy during recovery
Combination Tx: Family focused therapy, IPT with social rhythm therapy, and CBT. Also
good are day treatment, group therapy, self-help groups, electroconvulsive therapy and
Vagus Nerve stimulation.
✔✔Cyclothymic Disorder - ✔✔I: Hypomanic Checklist
DD: Substance related and sleep disorders
Tx: IPF, FFT, regulating sleep, circadian rhhthms and social rhythm. career counseling,
interpersonal skill development, group counseling. Immediate family often has bipolar or
hx of being hypersensitive.
✔✔ANXIETY DISORDERS - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Anxiety Disorders Interview
Schedule and Structured Clinical
Ethnicity: African Americans tend to use gratitude and religiosity more than Europeans.
Panic disorder co-exists with sleep paralysis more frequently in African Americans
(60%) than Caucasians (8%). Hispanic patients may experience uncontrollable
behaviors. Cambodian refugees have a high incidence of Panic disorder with physical
discomfort.
Tx: DBT, Exposure therapy, acceptance-based therapy, group therapy, cultural factors.
, ✔✔Panic Disorder - ✔✔I: ADVIS - measures avoidance, severity of panic; Burns
Anxiety Inventory
DD: Anxiety disorders, agoraphobia, major deprsesion, bipolar disorder, alcohol use
Tx: CBT, panic control therapy, ACT, SFIT, family support, group therapy & Systematic
Desensitization
✔✔Phobias - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Burns Anxiety Inventory
Tx: Exposure-based as relaxation training, breathing retraining and paradoxical
intention
✔✔Agoraphobia - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia,
Agoraphobic Cognition Questionnaire
DD: Anxiety disorders, panic disorder, social anxiety, depressive
Tx: Panic Control Therapy (PCT) is well documented
✔✔Social Anxiety Disorder - ✔✔I: Fear of Negative Evaluation and Social Interaction
Anxiety Scale, Achenbach for aged 6-18 or Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale
for 6-19
DD: Anxiety Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, Substance Use disorder
Tx: CBT, CBGT (group version), Exposure, cognitive restructuring, social skills training,
relaxation, homework, role playing, mindfulness, attention training..
✔✔Obsessive-Compulsive - ✔✔I: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale,
Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised
DD: Panic Disorder, social anxiety disorder, GAD, specific phobia, bipolar disorder, tic,
body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, excoriation, schizophrenia/schizoaffective
Tx: Exposure, response prevention, cognitive approaches that focus on thinking,
checking family
✔✔PTSD - ✔✔I: The Clinician Administered PTSD Scale, the PTSD Checklist, for
children K-SADS PTSD section, Child Behavior Checklist, Childhood Trauma
Questionnaire, Phsychometric Evaluation of the Children's Impact of Traumatic Events
Scale-R.
DD: Depressive, bipolar, anxiety and substance use disorders
Tx: Prolonged exposure therapy (BEST), Cognitive processing therapy (for sexual
assault/traumatic brain injury), anxiety management training; EMDR, Group and family
therapy, stress inoculation training.
✔✔Generalized Anxiety Disorder - ✔✔I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, The Penn State Worry
Questionnaire Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule
DD: Anxiety Disorder, unipolar disorder
Tx: CBT, affective therapy (AWARE),
✔✔Alcohol Related - ✔✔I: Rapid Alcohol Problems Screen, Michigan Alcoholism
Screening Test, MAST, CAGE, Alcohol Use Disorders ID Test
