Mood Disorders
This disorder includes at least one hypomanic episode and one major depressive episode, but no history of a manic episode.
Bipolar II Disorder
Excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least 6 months about multiple areas of life.
GAD
This disorder requires at least 6 months of disturbance including delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech.
Schizophrenia
Fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, and self-harm are hallmark features.
BPD
Persistent inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity interfering with functioning before age 12.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Visual hallucinations during alcohol withdrawal most strongly indicate this severe condition.
Delirium Tremens
A client reports depressed mood most days for over 2 years with no symptom-free period longer than 2 months.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
A client experiences panic attacks and begins avoiding stores, crowds, and public transportation for fear escape may be difficult.
Agorophobia
A client presents with psychosis and mood episodes, but psychotic symptoms also occur independently of mood symptoms
Schizoaffective Disorder
A client displays grandiosity, entitlement, and lack of empathy while seeking admiration.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A child demonstrates repetitive behaviors, restricted interests, and deficits in social communication.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A counselor should rule out this medical condition when a client presents with anxiety, weight loss, and tachycardia.
Hyperthyroidism
A clinician must differentiate between this disorder and grief when symptoms include guilt unrelated to the deceased, worthlessness, and suicidal ideation.
Major Depressive Disorder
A child exposed to abuse reenacts trauma themes in play, has nightmares, and shows hypervigilance for over one month.
PTSD
This disorder is characterized by one or more delusions lasting at least one month without marked impairment outside the delusion.
Delusional Disorder
This disorder is differentiated from BPD by pervasive attention-seeking and excessive emotionality without chronic emptiness or self-harm.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Argumentative behavior toward authority figures without severe rights violations most strongly suggests this disorder.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Memory impairment, confabulation, and chronic alcohol misuse suggest this neurocognitive disorder.
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
A client presents with elevated mood, decreased need for sleep, grandiosity, and hospitalization due to impairment.
Bipolar I Disorder
Symptoms begin within 3 months of a stressor but do not meet full criteria for another disorder.
Adjustment Disorder
A client abruptly develops psychotic symptoms lasting less than one month and then fully returns to baseline functioning.
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Disregard for the rights of others occurring since age 15, including deceitfulness and lack of remorse.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
A pattern of aggression, property destruction, deceitfulness, and serious rule violations before age 18.
Conduct Disorder
This withdrawal syndrome may include tremors, seizures, nausea, and autonomic hyperactivity.
Alcohol Withdrawal
This diagnosis is considered when depressive symptoms occur following substance intoxication or withdrawal and are directly linked physiologically
Substance/Medication-Induced Depressive Disorder
This diagnosis differs from PTSD because symptoms occur between 3 days and 1 month after the traumatic event.
Acute Stress Disorder
Hallucinations occurring exclusively during heavy methamphetamine use most strongly suggest this diagnosis.
Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder
A client avoids social interaction due to fears of criticism and inadequacy but desires relationships.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
This diagnosis should be ruled out when trauma-related hypervigilance mimics ADHD symptoms.
PTSD
A sudden change in mental status with fluctuating consciousness requires clinicians to first rule out this condition.
Delirium