MENTAL HEALTH, VARCAROLIS' 8TH EDITION NEWEST
TEST BANK UPDATE 2025\2026 WITH ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS/WELL ANALYSED ALL GRADED A+
bipolar 1 disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-The most severe bipolar disorder. It is
marked by shifts in mood, energy, and ability to function.
bipolar 2 disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-Classified in individuals who have
experienced at least 1 manic episode and 1 major depressive episode.
circumstantial speech - CORRECT ANSWER-adding unnecessary details when
communicating with others; person eventually gets to the point
clang association - CORRECT ANSWER-the stringing together of words
because of their rhyming sounds, without regard to their meaning
mood stabilizers - CORRECT ANSWER-classes of drugs used to treat
symptoms associated with bipolar disorder; lithium
,pressured speech - CORRECT ANSWER-Fast, ranging form rapid to frenetic
and conveys an inappropriate sense of urgency
*loud, rapid, and incoherent
rapid cycling - CORRECT ANSWER-Present in an individual who has
experienced 4 mood episodes in 12 months, in 1 month or over a 24 hour
period.
*More severe symptoms can occur such as poorer global functioning, high
recurrence risk and resistance to conventional and somatic treatments
tangential speech - CORRECT ANSWER-adding unnecessary details when
communicating with others; person does not get to the point, but loses track of
what was being said
ptsd - CORRECT ANSWER-lived through and event that could have caused
them or someone else to be killed or badly hurt; events include sexual or
physical abuse or other violent crimes
reactive attachment disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-consistent pattern of
inhibited, emotional withdrawal, due to the lack of bonding experience with a
caregiver by the age of eight months
disinhibited social engagement disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-no normal fear
of strangers, seem unfazed in response to separation from a primary
caregiver;willing to go off with people they do not know
adjustment disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-Precipitated by stressful event;
Debilitating cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms that negatively
impact normal functioning; Responses to stressful event may include
combinations of depression, anxiety, and conduct disturbances
, complicated grief - CORRECT ANSWER-intense yearning/longing for the
deceased and intense sorrow and emotional pain or preoccupation with the
deceased
acute stress disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-exposure to a traumatic event
causes numbing, detachment, and amnesia about the event for at least 3 days
but not for more than 1 month following the event
post-traumatic stress disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-exposure to a traumatic
event causes intense fear, horror, flashbacks, feelings of detachment, and
foreboding, restricted affect, and impairment for longer than 1 month after the
event; may last for years
dissociative disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-characterized by an involuntary
escape from reality by disconnecting from thoughts, identity, consciousness
and memory
dissociative identity disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-A rare dissociative disorder
in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
Also called multiple personality disorder.
dissociative fugue - CORRECT ANSWER-disorder in which one travels away
from home and is unable to remember details of his past, including often his
identity
dissociative amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER-loss of memory (partial or
complete) for important information related to personal identity
TEST BANK UPDATE 2025\2026 WITH ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS/WELL ANALYSED ALL GRADED A+
bipolar 1 disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-The most severe bipolar disorder. It is
marked by shifts in mood, energy, and ability to function.
bipolar 2 disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-Classified in individuals who have
experienced at least 1 manic episode and 1 major depressive episode.
circumstantial speech - CORRECT ANSWER-adding unnecessary details when
communicating with others; person eventually gets to the point
clang association - CORRECT ANSWER-the stringing together of words
because of their rhyming sounds, without regard to their meaning
mood stabilizers - CORRECT ANSWER-classes of drugs used to treat
symptoms associated with bipolar disorder; lithium
,pressured speech - CORRECT ANSWER-Fast, ranging form rapid to frenetic
and conveys an inappropriate sense of urgency
*loud, rapid, and incoherent
rapid cycling - CORRECT ANSWER-Present in an individual who has
experienced 4 mood episodes in 12 months, in 1 month or over a 24 hour
period.
*More severe symptoms can occur such as poorer global functioning, high
recurrence risk and resistance to conventional and somatic treatments
tangential speech - CORRECT ANSWER-adding unnecessary details when
communicating with others; person does not get to the point, but loses track of
what was being said
ptsd - CORRECT ANSWER-lived through and event that could have caused
them or someone else to be killed or badly hurt; events include sexual or
physical abuse or other violent crimes
reactive attachment disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-consistent pattern of
inhibited, emotional withdrawal, due to the lack of bonding experience with a
caregiver by the age of eight months
disinhibited social engagement disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-no normal fear
of strangers, seem unfazed in response to separation from a primary
caregiver;willing to go off with people they do not know
adjustment disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-Precipitated by stressful event;
Debilitating cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms that negatively
impact normal functioning; Responses to stressful event may include
combinations of depression, anxiety, and conduct disturbances
, complicated grief - CORRECT ANSWER-intense yearning/longing for the
deceased and intense sorrow and emotional pain or preoccupation with the
deceased
acute stress disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-exposure to a traumatic event
causes numbing, detachment, and amnesia about the event for at least 3 days
but not for more than 1 month following the event
post-traumatic stress disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-exposure to a traumatic
event causes intense fear, horror, flashbacks, feelings of detachment, and
foreboding, restricted affect, and impairment for longer than 1 month after the
event; may last for years
dissociative disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-characterized by an involuntary
escape from reality by disconnecting from thoughts, identity, consciousness
and memory
dissociative identity disorder - CORRECT ANSWER-A rare dissociative disorder
in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
Also called multiple personality disorder.
dissociative fugue - CORRECT ANSWER-disorder in which one travels away
from home and is unable to remember details of his past, including often his
identity
dissociative amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER-loss of memory (partial or
complete) for important information related to personal identity
