ASWB CLINICAL EXAM 2026 PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ Anxiety disorders. Answer: Panic Attack, Agoraphobia, OCD, Acute
Stress, Generalized Anxiety, etc
◉ Panic Attack. Answer: Discrete periods of sudden onset of intense
apprehension, fearfulness, or terror, often associated with feelings of
impending doom. Physical symptoms occur
◉ OCD. Answer: Characterized by obsessions (which cause marked
anxiety or distress) and/or by compulsions which serve to neutralize the
anxiety
◉ Autism. Answer: Onset before 3 years. A failure to develop usual
relatedness to parent and people. Signs: lack of eye contact, no cuddling,
lack social smile, fail to develop normal language, maybe echolalis,
repetitive and/or rigid play that lacks variety
◉ Asbergers. Answer: No clinical delays in speech, a sever and
sustained impairment of social interactions and restricted repetitive
patterns of behavior, interest and activities
4-5 times more likely in males
,◉ Mood disorders. Answer: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Dysthymic Disorder
are in what category
◉ Bipolar I. Answer: Major Depression lasting 2 weeks with Mania
lasting at least 1 week. Life time diagnosis and marked social
impairment
◉ Bipolar II. Answer: Depression lasting 2 weeks with hypomanic
episode of 4 or more days.
◉ Major Depression. Answer: 2 weeks of depressed mood, loss of
interest in pleasure, insomnia, weight loss or gain, psychomotor
agitation, fatigue, guilt, reoccurring thoughts of death. Marked social
impairment
◉ Mania. Answer: Elevated mood, increased energy/activity,
grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, more talkative, flight of ideas,
distractibility, increased goal-directed activity, excessive involvement in
activities that have potential high consequence
◉ Hypomanic. Answer: A less severe version of a manic episode that
does not cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning,
and only needs to last 4 days rather than a full week. No psychosis
episodes or sever interference with social interaction
,◉ Postmorbid. Answer: after disease onset
◉ Decision making stages of Groups. Answer: Orientation: getting to
know one another
Conflict: disputes occur as members get to know each other
Emergence: Clear up vague opinions by discussion
Reinforcement: Final decision
◉ Interventive Roles. Answer: Consultant, Case manager, Enabler,
Mediator, Instructor, Advocate, Catalyst, Broker, Facilitator, Lobbyist
◉ Problem Solving Process. Answer: Engaging
Assessing
Planning
Intervening
Evaluating
Terminating
◉ Psychotic. Answer: experiencing delusions or hallucinations
◉ Disorientation. Answer: Confusion about the time of day, date or
season(time), where on is (place), or who one is (person)
, ◉ Delusion. Answer: A false belief or opinion, especially one held in
spite of contradictory evidence
◉ Contraindicted. Answer: when medications have such dangerous
effects that their use must be immediately discontinued. Not
recommended for safe use
◉ Introjection. Answer: taking an external feeling/attribute and
symbolically absorbing it within oneself
◉ Comorbid. Answer: Coexistence of two or more disorders
◉ Displacement. Answer: directing an impulse, wish or felling towards
a person or situation that is not its real object. Thus permitting
expression in a less threatening situation
◉ Sublimation. Answer: dealing with emotional conflict or
internal/external stressors by which people redirect socially unacceptable
impulses toward acceptable goals or activies
◉ Regression. Answer: A partial or symbolic return to a prior stage after
a person has progressed through the various stages of development;
caused by anxiety.
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ Anxiety disorders. Answer: Panic Attack, Agoraphobia, OCD, Acute
Stress, Generalized Anxiety, etc
◉ Panic Attack. Answer: Discrete periods of sudden onset of intense
apprehension, fearfulness, or terror, often associated with feelings of
impending doom. Physical symptoms occur
◉ OCD. Answer: Characterized by obsessions (which cause marked
anxiety or distress) and/or by compulsions which serve to neutralize the
anxiety
◉ Autism. Answer: Onset before 3 years. A failure to develop usual
relatedness to parent and people. Signs: lack of eye contact, no cuddling,
lack social smile, fail to develop normal language, maybe echolalis,
repetitive and/or rigid play that lacks variety
◉ Asbergers. Answer: No clinical delays in speech, a sever and
sustained impairment of social interactions and restricted repetitive
patterns of behavior, interest and activities
4-5 times more likely in males
,◉ Mood disorders. Answer: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Dysthymic Disorder
are in what category
◉ Bipolar I. Answer: Major Depression lasting 2 weeks with Mania
lasting at least 1 week. Life time diagnosis and marked social
impairment
◉ Bipolar II. Answer: Depression lasting 2 weeks with hypomanic
episode of 4 or more days.
◉ Major Depression. Answer: 2 weeks of depressed mood, loss of
interest in pleasure, insomnia, weight loss or gain, psychomotor
agitation, fatigue, guilt, reoccurring thoughts of death. Marked social
impairment
◉ Mania. Answer: Elevated mood, increased energy/activity,
grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, more talkative, flight of ideas,
distractibility, increased goal-directed activity, excessive involvement in
activities that have potential high consequence
◉ Hypomanic. Answer: A less severe version of a manic episode that
does not cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning,
and only needs to last 4 days rather than a full week. No psychosis
episodes or sever interference with social interaction
,◉ Postmorbid. Answer: after disease onset
◉ Decision making stages of Groups. Answer: Orientation: getting to
know one another
Conflict: disputes occur as members get to know each other
Emergence: Clear up vague opinions by discussion
Reinforcement: Final decision
◉ Interventive Roles. Answer: Consultant, Case manager, Enabler,
Mediator, Instructor, Advocate, Catalyst, Broker, Facilitator, Lobbyist
◉ Problem Solving Process. Answer: Engaging
Assessing
Planning
Intervening
Evaluating
Terminating
◉ Psychotic. Answer: experiencing delusions or hallucinations
◉ Disorientation. Answer: Confusion about the time of day, date or
season(time), where on is (place), or who one is (person)
, ◉ Delusion. Answer: A false belief or opinion, especially one held in
spite of contradictory evidence
◉ Contraindicted. Answer: when medications have such dangerous
effects that their use must be immediately discontinued. Not
recommended for safe use
◉ Introjection. Answer: taking an external feeling/attribute and
symbolically absorbing it within oneself
◉ Comorbid. Answer: Coexistence of two or more disorders
◉ Displacement. Answer: directing an impulse, wish or felling towards
a person or situation that is not its real object. Thus permitting
expression in a less threatening situation
◉ Sublimation. Answer: dealing with emotional conflict or
internal/external stressors by which people redirect socially unacceptable
impulses toward acceptable goals or activies
◉ Regression. Answer: A partial or symbolic return to a prior stage after
a person has progressed through the various stages of development;
caused by anxiety.
