Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination (CPCE) Exam| Actual Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct| Grade A (2023/ 2024 Update)

Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination (CPCE) Exam| Actual Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct| Grade A (2023/ 2024 Update) Q: Client presents with his wife both complaining the patient has had a change in cognitive function including language and memory. Client denies loss of pleasure in normal activities and denies feeling sad, but client is able to manage his medications but requires someone to set up his medication box and set a timer for him. What type of disorder? Answer: Neurocognitive Disorder Q: Disorder of thought; disorder of mood. What type of disorder? Answer: Schizophrenia; bipolar disorder Q: Type of theory: Mirroring back client's verbalizations, and not passing judgment. Facilitating in assisting his client in reaching resolution of the presenting problems. Answer: Rogerian, client-centered therapy Q: Binge eating coupled with inappropriate methods of controlling one's weight may be a symptom of Answer: Bulimia Q: Concerns of his health; reports chronic intestinal difficulties, but has not sought medical treatment for his concerns. For the last five years he rarely feels at ease while at his job. Feels uneasy when outside the home. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Agoraphobia Q: loss of appetite; nervousness, and recurrent nightmares of a past hospital experience from years prior, where she says she almost died. What is the diagnosis? Answer: PTSD Q: Actively defiant of instructions, argues regularly, spiteful, and resentful. School performance is marginal. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Oppositional defiant disorder Q: 40-year old client not feeling comfortable socially after gaining weight. Unwilling to try new activities and avoiding activities he once found enjoyable. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Avoidant Personality Disorder Q: Client believes his favorite actress is in love with him. He is appropriate in every other way and substance use is not the factor. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Delusional Disorder Q: Mild form of bipolar disorder. Cause is unknown Answer: Cyclothymia Q: Client needs help with substance use, uses recreationally on the weekends. Two DUIs within 3 years. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Stimulant Use Disorder Q: Complaints about significant Chronic back pain and shoulder pain (basis of a disability claim), when seen he looks fully physical capable of bending and picking up things. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Malingering - to receive an external reward Q: Symptoms of Schizophrenia categorized in three groups Answer: Positive, Negative, and Disorganized Q: Couple comes in. Wife displays feelings of distrust and no tolerance for relationships and also experiences excessive over-valuation "he's the best thing that every happened to me". What is the diagnosis? Answer: Borderline Personality Disorder Q: A patient diagnosed with depression/suicide ideation suddenly appears to feel better and think more clearly. What should we realize? Answer: Suicide has increased! Q: 20 year-old male college student. Last 6-7 months grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior and speech, hallucinations, poor responses. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Schizophrenia...Paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual Q: When a client's physical symptoms have a psychological cause it is referred to as Answer: Conversion Disorder Q: Any means by which by which a counselor assesses a client. ie: mental health exam, IQ test Answer: Appraisal Q: Type of test - NCE (objective or subjective?) Answer: Objective Q: Type of Test created by David Wechsler Answer: IQ