CBHT CBHT Mental Health Disorders and Symptoms 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: PTSD symptoms are grouped into which four main clusters?
- Intrusion, avoidance, negative cognitions/mood, hyperarousal (Correct answer)
- Mania, depression, anxiety, psychosis
- Hallucinations, delusions, disorganization, negative symptoms
- Impulsivity, instability, self-harm, dissociation
Correct answer: Intrusion, avoidance, negative cognitions/mood, hyperarousal
DSM-5 organizes PTSD symptoms into intrusion, avoidance, negative alterations in cognition/mood, and hyperarousal.
Question 2: Which of the following is a negative symptom of schizophrenia?
- Auditory hallucinations
- Grandiose delusions
- Alogia (poverty of speech) (Correct answer)
- Disorganized speech
Correct answer: Alogia (poverty of speech)
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include alogia, avolition, anhedonia, and flat affect—representing diminished functioning.
Question 3: A client reports feeling detached from their own thoughts and body as if watching themselves from outside. This is called:
- Derealization
- Depersonalization (Correct answer)
- Dissociative amnesia
- Paranoia
Correct answer: Depersonalization
Depersonalization is the feeling of being detached from one's own mental processes or body.
Question 4: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by:
- Fear confined to a single specific object
- Excessive, uncontrollable worry about multiple topics for at least 6 months (Correct answer)
- Sudden intense fear with no warning
- Anxiety triggered only in social situations
Correct answer: Excessive, uncontrollable worry about multiple topics for at least 6 months
GAD involves excessive, difficult-to-control worry about various topics persisting for at least six months.
Question 5: Which of the following sleep disturbances is commonly reported in clients with depression?
- Hypersomnia or insomnia (Correct answer)
- Sleepwalking
- Night terrors exclusively
- REM sleep behavior disorder
Correct answer: Hypersomnia or insomnia
Depression commonly presents with either insomnia (most frequent) or hypersomnia as a neurovegetative symptom.
Question 6: A client with borderline personality disorder (BPD) engages in impulsive self-harm after feeling abandoned. Which core feature of BPD does this reflect?
- Grandiosity
- Fear of abandonment driving impulsive behaviors (Correct answer)
- Persistent delusional thinking
- Chronic fatigue
Correct answer: Fear of abandonment driving impulsive behaviors
BPD is characterized by intense fear of abandonment and impulsive, self-destructive behaviors.
CBHT CBHT Mental Health Disorders and Symptoms 2
PTSD symptoms are grouped into which four main clusters?