NCMHCE- Diagnosis questions with correct answers

Acute Stress Disorder correct answer The primary feature is the development of characteristic negative mood, and arousal, avoidance, dissociative, and intrusion symptoms that typically begin immediately after a trauma and last for a minimum of three days up to a month. The person is exposed to an event that involved or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation. At least nine symptoms need to be experienced which include but are not limited to exaggerated startle response, altered sense of reality, sleep disturbance, distressing memories, recurrent dreams, and an inability to experience positive emotions. The event is persistently re-experienced by the person and there is typically a noted avoidance of stimuli that arouse recollections. This type of disturbance causes significant distress or an impairment to social, occupational, or other areas of necessary functioning. D: Adjustment Disorders, panic disorders, PTSD CBT, Stimulant Use Disorder correct answer Substance abuse and dependence is now a single disorder measured on a continuum from mild to severe. Each substance is addressed as a separate use disorder but based on same overarching criteria. 11 criteria, 2-3 must be met in order to diagnose mild, six or more for severe. Duration of symptoms: 12 months. - AA, family therapy, antabus. LEAST: psychodynamic treatment Adjustment disorder with.... (depressed mood, anxiety, disturbance of conduct) correct answer CHANGED. stress-response syndromes of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor occuring within 3 months of the onset. Once the stressor has ended, the symptoms do not presist for more than an additional 6 months. 1 or more of the following: depressed mood (sadness and depression); anxiety (nervousness, jitteriness, worry, separation anxiety), disturbance of conduct (sudden changes in behavior combined with feelings of depression or anxiety); maladaptive reactions. 6 subtypes: Depressed mood, anxiety, mixed anxiety and depressed mood, disturbance of conduct, mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct, unspecified. studies suggest that adults with adjustment disorders have a good long-term prognosis while adolescents with this disorder eventually may develop major psychiatric illnesses.