Definitions
Symptomatology
MSE
DSM 5 TR
Diagnosing
200

To increase severity of symptoms for financial or personal gain.

What is malingering?

200

Clients explain their symptoms from their point of view, while clinicians look at the presenting _______ for congruency.

What are signs?

200

The acronym MSE stands for what?

What is the Mental Status Exam?

200

These are used to justify each diagnosis and define symptomatology.

What are criteria?

200

It means to occur over and over in episodes

What is recurrent?

400

Syndromes such as Stockholm and Munchausen syndromes are not the same as mental health disorders. T or False

What is true?

400

Hallucinations cover the 5 senses: visual (see), gustatory (taste), tactile (feel), olfactory (smell) and this.

What is auditory (hear)?

400

When measuring orientation, check for the client's sense of person, place, location, and ______.

What is time or date?

400

This is described as a syndrome that causes clinically significant distress in behaviors, cognition, and emotional regulation.

What is a mental disorder?

400

When diagnosing these two things are always ruled out first. 

What is substance abuse and medical?

600

Thinking that I can become president next week is a symptom od this type of thinking.

What is delusional? 

600

Diagnosing involves using parsimony or Occam's razor, which means this:

What is interpreting results in the simplest way?

600

How often is an MSE done?

What is every time you see a client?

600

What does the DSM 5 TR acronym stand for?

What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th edition Text Revision?

600

Billing occurs from the ICD 10 using these codes for mental health. 

What is Fcodes?

800

These types of diagnoses encompass all that they client could possibly have.

What are differential diagnoses?

800

If a person has had at least one manic episode in their lifetime they are automatically diagnosed with what?

What is Bipolar I D/O?

800

The clinician wants to ensure that mood is _________ to affect.

What is congruent?

800

These codes are not diagnoses, but may be of clinical significance or focus.

What are zcodes?

800

Horses are more common than zebras and always seek this, which means the simplest diagnosis for the symptoms.

What is Occam's Razor or Parsimony?

1000

Euthymic is described as a normal mood while this indicates rapidly fluctuating moods in a short period of time.

What is labile?

1000

When a person goes from mania to baseline and then into depression, this is known as..........

What is cycling?

1000

WNL means what?

What is within normal limits?

1000

Which broad section would skin-picking (excoriation) and hair-pulling (Trichotillomania) disorders be found in?

What is Obsessive Compulsive and Related D/Os?

1000

LCMHCs cannot diagnose this nor can they treat this.

What are Autism and Substance Abuse?

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