NCMHCE Test Study Guide Questions
and answers, Rated A+. latest update.
What are the specific tasks that should be devoted to an initial interview? In order of time that should
be spent on them? - ✔✔-History of Viol
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NCMHCE Test Study Guide Questions
and answers, Rated A+. latest update.
What are the specific tasks that should be devoted to an initial interview? In order of time that should
be spent on them? - ✔✔-History of Violence - 30%
Personal, Social and Character Pathology - 25%
Chief Complaints - 15%
Medical History - 15%
Mental Status - 10%
Diagnosis and Treatment Discussion - 5%
Predispositions have been found in family histories of the following disorders: - ✔✔-Substance Use,
Mood Disorders, Tics and Eating Disorders
Some Diagnostic Assessment instruments for mood disorders include: - ✔✔-MMPI-2, the Beck
Depression Inventory (BDI)
For personality disorders a good diagnostic tool is: - ✔✔-the MCMI-III
To monitor for client improvement in mood disorders use: - ✔✔-the Beck Depression Inventory, Burns
Anxiety Inventory or the SASSI
A good treatment approach for panic disorder has been proven to be: - ✔✔-CBT
Two short acting anti-depressants that have had similar withdrawal symptoms as alcohol, narcotics,
marijuana, anxiolytics and some muscle relaxants are: - ✔✔-Paxil and Effexor
Bipolar Disorder rapid cycling has been linked to ____________. - ✔✔-Thyroid Abnormalities
Two corticosteroids are: - ✔✔-Prednisone and Cortisone
Corticosteroids can can cause what symptoms/disorders? - ✔✔-Can cause changes in mood and
cognition, are generally dose related and can precipitate psychosis, hypomania, depression, cognitive
and memory problems.
Interferon (treatment for Hep C) has caused what disorder in 23% of patients? - ✔✔-Depression
Cold meds can cause atropine. What is atropine? - ✔✔-confusion, disorientation, agitation,
hallucinations, and memory problems.
Acne medicine (Isotrentinoin) can cause severe.... - ✔✔-depression and suicidal behavior.
Cormorbid traits of Tourette's Syndrome. - ✔✔-Relatives of clients with Tourette's have a higher
incidence of tics, OCD and ADHD.
Some disorders that have family predispositions are: - ✔✔-Tourette's, Eating Disorders, Tics, Alcoholism,
ADHD
The top scales used in mental health are: - ✔✔-MMPI-2, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -R, Bender
Gestalt, Sentence Completion.
The top scales used with adolescents are: - ✔✔-Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Rorschach Ink Blot Test,
Bender Gestalt, Sentence Completion
What is the NEPSY-II? - ✔✔-Neuropsychology II assesses brain development in ages 3-16. Helps ID
academic, social and behavioral difficulties, ADHD, PDD/autism spectrum disorder, language disorder,
mathematics disorder and reading disorder. NOTE: prior to administering the NEPSY-II gather data on
their lives, medical risk factors, demands placed on child at home
What is the Bender Gestalt II? - ✔✔-It measures visual motor behavior in ages 4-85.
What is the MCMII-III? - ✔✔-The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory measures personality traits and
psychopathology. Helps ID schizoid personality, avoidant personality, depressive personality, dependent
personality, histrionic personality, narcissistic personality, antisocial personality, sadistic personality
(aggressive), compulsive personality, negativistic personality (passive-aggressive), self-defeating
personality (masochistic). AS WELL as schizotypal, borderline and paranoid.
BDI-II - ✔✔-Beck Depression Inventory can be used in diagnosing panic disorder, schizophrenia and
mood disorders.
What is the SCLR-90? - ✔✔-Gives PRESUMPTIVE OR IMPRESSIONISTIC MARKERS about the
characteristics of a disease or condition. It is used with people with eating disorders (bulimic), anxiety or
depressive disorders, stress, suicidal behavior, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid ideation,
psychoticism, sleep disorders, AOD abuse, physical or sexual abuse and sexual dysfunction and
sensitivity to drug vs. placebo.
SASSI-3 - ✔✔-Self report and screens for substance dependent disorder
SCID-I and SCID-II - ✔✔-A set of questions to be used in conjunction with the bipolar spectrum
diagnostic scale. Measures mood episodes, psychotic symptoms and disorders, mood disorders,
substance use disorders, anxiety, adjustment disorders.
BSDS - ✔✔-Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale - identifies presence or absence of bipolar disorder.
MDQ - ✔✔-Mood Disorder Questionnaire - easy SCREENING tool for detecting bipolar I or disorder.
NOTE: It is NOT used for monitoring for improvement.
DAST and SMAST - ✔✔-Drug Abuse Screening Test (for drugs) and Short Michigan Alcoholism Test (for
people with drinking problems)
DES - ✔✔-Dissociative Experiences Scale is used in tandem with the SCID-D (for dissociative disorders
WISC-IV and WPPSI-III - ✔✔-Wechsler Intelligence Scales for ages 6-16, the WPPSI is for age 2.5-7.
CDI - ✔✔-Children's Depression Inventory is FOR PARENTS about their children for ages 7-17.
RCMAS-2 - ✔✔-Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale - most widely used questionnaire assesses
type and level of anxiety in ages 6-19.
Achenback system of Emprically Based Assessment (ASEBA) - ✔✔-for ages 6-18 measures affective,
anxiety, somatic, ADH, oppositional defiant and conduct problems.
Behavior Assessment System for Children - ✔✔-Used to evaluate behavior and self-perceptions of
children - one for TEACHERS and one for PARENTS.
Conners 3 - Parent, Teacher, Adolescent Forms - ✔✔-For ages 6-18. Short and long forms for each. IDs
ADHD and late disorders.
Intellectual Disability (in children) - ✔✔-I: Wechsler Intelligence Test and Stanford-Binet Scales
DD: ADHD, Depressive & Bipolar Disorders, anxiety
Tx: Behavior Modification for self injury, parent training and community based Tx and individual
psychotherapy
Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔-I: Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Disorders Screening Test II, the Social
Communication Questionnaire, Taylor and Jaspers's Social Skills Inventory
DD: Specific learning difficulties, coordination disorders, medical conditions
Tx: Behavioral, floor technique, the Pervasive Development Pivotal Response Training
ADHD - ✔✔-I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Behavior Assessment System for Children, Conner's
Rating Scale-R, Conner's Teacher Rating Scales.
DD: OppDefi, Conduct Disorder
Tx: Stimulant medications, parent training, counseling, behavioral targeted classroom intervention,
social skills, intereferes with functioning in social, academic and occupational domains.
Conduct Disorder (CD) - ✔✔-I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist and Behavior Assessment System
DD: Antisocial personality disorder, specific learning disorders
Tx: Problem-Solving Skill dysregulation, imulsivity social skills, anger management, parent management
Oppositional Defiant (OD) - ✔✔-I: Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Behavioral Assessment System,
Conner's Teacher Rating Scales-R
DD: Conduct Disorder, ADHD, anxiety/depression
Tx:Problem-Solving Skills Training (PSST), Cognitive, Behavioral, Individual Therapy.
Separation Ansiety (SAD) in children - ✔✔-I: Child's Depression Inventory, The Washington University
Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, Young Mania Rating Scale
DD: GAD, specific phobia
Tx: Exposure Therapy (highly effective), Cognitive-Behavioral, Coping Cat Model
Bipolar 1 (in children) - ✔✔-I: Child's Depression Inventory, The Washington University Schedule, Young
Mania Rating Scale
DD: Anxiety disorders, panic disorder
Tx: CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Combination family focused and CBT, psychoeducational and maybe
DBT
PTSD (in Children) - ✔✔-I: Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children, Beck Anxiety Inventory
DD: Depressive, bipolar, anxiety, substance use
Tx: CBT, Exposure Therapy, Emotion Focused Cognitive-Behavioral, Trauma Focused CBT
Adjustment Disorder (6 types) - ✔✔-I: The SCAD
DD: Most mental health disorders
Tx: Crisis-Intervention Model - Relieving acute symptoms, brief psychodynamic psychotherapy
Major Depressive Disorder - ✔✔-I: Beck Depression Inventory, Hamilton Rating Scale, SCID
DD: Substance related disorders, panic disorder, OCD
Tx: CBT, low level of social functioning perform best with interpersonal psychotherapy. New therapies
are Behvioral Activation Therapy, CBT-1, Mindfulness, exercise, Vagus nerve therapy
Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymic disorders) - ✔✔-I: Beck Depression Inventory, Steen
Happiness Index
DD: Anxiety Disorder and substance use disorders
Tx: CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Social Skills, Assertiveness and decision making
Bipolar Disorder - ✔✔-I: SCID, The Treatment Attitudes Questionnaire, Bipolar 2 use the hypomania
checklist 32
DD: Panic attack, social anxiety, ADHD, conduct disorder, impulse control, substance use, intermittent
explosive, opp-defi
Tx: Medication first line, family focused psycho-educational treatment, social rhythm therapy and CBT,
group therapy during recovery
Combination Tx: Family focused therapy, IPT with social rhythm therapy, and CBT. Also good are day
treatment, group therapy, self-help groups, electroconvulsive therapy and Vagus Nerve stimulation.
Cyclothymic Disorder - ✔✔-I: Hypomanic Checklist
DD: Substance related and sleep disorders
Tx: IPF, FFT, regulating sleep, circadian rhhthms and social rhythm. career counseling, interpersonal skill
development, group counseling. Immediate family often has bipolar or hx of being hypersensitive.
ANXIETY DISORDERS - ✔✔-I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule and
Structured Clinical
Ethnicity: African Americans tend to use gratitude and religiosity more than Europeans. Panic disorder
co-exists with sleep paralysis more frequently in African Americans (60%) than Caucasians (8%). Hispanic
patients may experience uncontrollable behaviors. Cambodian refugees have a high incidence of Panic
disorder with physical discomfort.
Tx: DBT, Exposure therapy, acceptance-based therapy, group therapy, cultural factors.
Panic Disorder - ✔✔-I: ADVIS - measures avoidance, severity of panic; Burns Anxiety Inventory
DD: Anxiety disorders, agoraphobia, major deprsesion, bipolar disorder, alcohol use
Tx: CBT, panic control therapy, ACT, SFIT, family support, group therapy & Systematic Desensitization
Phobias - ✔✔-I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Burns Anxiety Inventory
Tx: Exposure-based as relaxation training, breathing retraining and paradoxical intention
Agoraphobia - ✔✔-I: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia, Agoraphobic
Cognition Questionnaire
DD: Anxiety disorders, panic disorder, social anxiety, depressive
Tx: Panic Control Therapy (PCT) is well docum
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