NCMHCE Test prep Study Guide with Complete Solutions

NCMHCE Test prep Study Guide with Complete Solutions the presence of one or more nonbizarre delusions that persist for at least one month. The diagnosis is not given if the individual has ever had a symptom presentation that met Criterion A for Schizophrenia - Answer️️ -Delusional Disorder an uninterrupted period of illness during which there is a Major Depressive, Manic, or Mixed Episode concurrent with symptoms that meet Criterion A for Schizophrenia. During the same period of illness, there have been delusions or hallucinations for at least 2 weeks in the absence of prominent mood symptoms (Criterion B). Mood symptoms are present for a substantial portion of the total duration of the illness (Criterion C). - Answer️️ -Schizoaffective Disorder Psychological response to an identifiable stressor or stressors that results in the development of clinically significant emotional or behavioral symptoms - Answer️️ - Adjustment Disorder Persistent and excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation) about a number of life circumstances accompanied by muscle tension; restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge; easy fatigability; difficulty concentrating or mind going blank; sleep disturbance - Answer️️ -Generalized Anxiety Disorder A paralyzing fear of interacting with others - Answer️️ -Social Phobia ©SOPHIABENNETT EXAM SOLUTIONS Saturday, September 7, 2024 6:58 PM Page | 2 development of severe anxiety, dissociative (ie. depersonalization, derealization, dissociative amnesia) and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor, lasts 2 days-1 week. The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced. - Answer️️ -Acute Stress Disorder the development of memory impairment as manifested by impairment in ability to learn new information or inability to recall previously learned information - Answer️️ - Amnestic Disorder Preoccupation with a defect in appearance; the defect is either imagined, or, if a slight physical anomaly is present, the individual's concern is markedly excessive - Answer️️ -Body Dysmorphic Disorder Sudden onset of at least one of the following positive psychotic symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized behavior. Lasting at least one day but less than a month and the individual has full return to premorbid level of functioning - Answer️️ -Brief Psychotic Disorder Presence of symptoms or deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory function suggesting neurological or general medical condition. Alteration or loss of physical functioning that suggests physical disorder, but that instead is apparently an expression of a psychological conflict or need. (Not diagnosed if symptoms limited to pain or sexual functioning.) - Answer️️ -Conversion Disorder A disturbance of consciousness that is accompanied by a change in cognition that develops over a short period of time and cannot be better accounted for by a preexisting or evolving dementia - Answer️️ -Delirium ©SOPHIABENNETT EXAM SOLUTIONS Saturday, September 7, 2024 6:58 PM Page | 3 The development of multiple cognitive deficits that include memory impairment and at least one of the following cognitive disturbances: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or a disturbance in executive functioning - Answer️️ -Dementia Persistent or recurrent episodes of depersonalization characterized by a feeling of detachment or estrangement from one's self - Answer️️ -Depersonalization Disorder an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic nature, that is too extensive to be explained by normal forgetfulness - Answer️️ -Dissociative Amnesia Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of daily activities, with inability to recall some or all of one's past - Answer️️ -Dissociative Fugue Presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of behavior - Answer️️ -Dissociative Identity Disorder Recurrent or persistent genital pain associated with sexual intercourse in either a male or a female - Answer️️ -Dyspareunia Intentional production of physical or psychological signs or symptoms; the motivation for the behavior is to assume the sick role - Answer️️ -Factitious Disorder Preoccupation with fears of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on a misinterpretation of one or more bodily signs or symptoms - Answer️️ - Hypochondriasis Preoccupation with pain in the absence of adequate physical findings to account for the pain or its intensity. Pain in one or more anatomical sites is the predominant focus of the clinical presentation and is of sufficient severity to warrant clinical attention. ©SOPHIABENNETT EXAM SOLUTIONS Saturday, September 7, 2024 6:58 PM Page | 4 Psychological factors play important role in onset/exacerbation of the pain, symptoms not intentionally produced. - Answer️️ -Pain Disorder A delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or functioning of one's body - Answer️️ -Somatic Delusion a multiple year pattern of medically unexplained complaints of multiple physical symptoms (4 pain, 2 gastro, 1 sexual, 1 pseudoneurological) that begin before age 30 that cause significant impairment in important areas of functioning and cannot be explained by general medical condition or substance effects, or are in excess of what would be expected for medical condition. - Answer️️ -Somatization Disorder A clinical course that is characterized by the occurrence of one or