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NCMHCE Exam – Questions & Verified AnswersCore conditions for effective therapeutic relationships ✔ Ans - Empathy, positive regard, personal warmth, and genuineness
Do parents have the right to know the information discussed if they are paying for services? ✔ Ans - Payment does not allow them to know all info. A consent is needed or when it is in the best interest of the client
If a physician or other professional requests a clients records, what should you do? ✔ Ans - You should comply and keep in mind other obligations. You should not provide raw rest data to someone who does not know how to read it
Clients who are minors ✔ Ans - Both legally and ethically, a minor is generally entitled to a confidential relationship with their counselor.
Pregnancy of a minor ✔ Ans - You are not ethically or legally required to tell a minor's parents about the minors pregnancy.
Clients rights with a subpoena ✔ Ans - As an ethical counselor you should not
release a clients records based on just a request from an attorney without having prior consent from the client to do so
Confidentiality when a client reveals past or planned criminal behavior ✔ Ans - A clients confession to a crime they committed in the past is a privileged communication and you have an ethical obligation to keep that information confidential unless they are going to hurt somebody or in involves child abuse.
Childhood onset fluency disorder ✔ Ans - Also known as stuttering. Usually begins between the ages of 2-7. Involves sound and syllable repetition, sound prolongation, broken words and avoids troublesome words.
Autism disorder ✔ Ans - Deficits in social communication, repetitive behaviors, interests in specific activities, the presence of symptoms in early development period, and impairment in social functioning. ADHD ✔ Ans - Characterized by a pattern of in attention and or hyperactivity-impulsivity that has persisted for at least six months and had an onset prior to 12 years of age and is present in at least two settings. It interferes with social, academic, or occupational functioning.
Specific learning disorder ✔ Ans - Impairment in reading, written expression,
and mathematics. Symptom that persists for at least 6 months
Motor disorders - tic disorders ✔ Ans - Sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization
Tourette's disorder ✔ Ans - The presence of at least one vocal tic and multiple motor tics that have persisted for more than one year and began prior to age 18
Delusional Disorder ✔ Ans - Presence of one or more delusions that last at least one month. Functioning is not impaired or Bizzarre or odd.
Bender visual motor bender visual gestalt test ✔ Ans - Used to measure the motor and cognitive development in minors over the age of four. The test may provide information regarding a subjects developmental and Neuro psychological functioning.
Schizophrenia ✔ Ans - Requires the presence of at least two active phase symptoms. For at least one more with at least one symptom being delusions, hallucinations or disorganized speech for at least 6 months. The onset is between late teens and early 30's.
Schizophreniform disorder ✔ Ans - The disturbance is present for at least one month but less than six months and impaired social or occupational functioning may occur but is not required.
Brief psychotic disorder ✔ Ans - Characterized by the presence of one or more of the characteristic symptoms with at least one symptom being delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech. Symptoms are present for at
least one day but les than one month. The onset follows exposure to an overwhelming stressor. Schizoaffective disorder ✔ Ans - Characterized by an uninterrupted period of
illness which there are at times concurrent symptoms of schizophrenia and symptoms of a major depressive or manic episode with a period of at least two weeks without prominent mood symptoms.
Cyclothymic disorder ✔ Ans - Characterized by numerous periods with hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for hypomanic episode and numerous periods. With symptoms lasting for at least two years in adults or one year in children and adolescents.
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder ✔ Ans - Has to be diagnosed before the age 10. Comes out through frequent temper outbursts with severe irritability. Requires a 10 month duration. Negative mood stay all day every day
Bipolar 2 ✔ Ans - Requires at least one hypomanic episode and one major depressive episode. It lasts for at least four consecutive days and is present most of the day, nearly everyday. The major depressive episode lasts for at least two weeks and involve five or more characteristic symptoms.
Cyclothymic disorder ✔ Ans - Characterized by numerous periods with hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for hypomanic episode and numerous periods. With symptoms lasting for at least two years in adults or one year in children and adolescents.
Major depressive disorder ✔ Ans - Requires the presence of at least five symptoms of a major depressive episode nearly every day for at least two weeks. Symptoms include loss of interest pleasure or activities. Significant weight loss, not dieting or wating insomnia agitation fatigue or loss of energy feelings of worthlessness and death.
Persistent depressive disorder ✔ Ans - Characterized by a depressed mood on most days for adults for two years or at least one year in children.
Separation anxiety disorder ✔ Ans - Excessive fear or anxiety related to separation from home or attachment figures as evidenced by at least three
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