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Prepare effectively for the DSM-5 Exam – Latest 2025 with this revised and comprehensive study resource featuring real exam-style questions and correct detailed answers. This downloadable PDF study guide covers psychiatric diagnostic criteria, mental disorders, case scenarios, and assessment strategies, providing students and mental health professionals with a complete tool to master DSM-5 concepts and confidently excel in exams for 2026.

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DSM 5 EXAM
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DSM 5 EXAM LATEST 2025 REVISED EXAM
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Characterized by abnormalities of one or more: delusions,hallucinations,
disorganized thinking (speech), disorganized or abnormal motor (including
catatonia) & negative symptoms. Severity is rated by assessing the primary
symptoms of psychosis on a 5point scale for each so based on presence & strength
of the screen from 0 (not present) to 4 (present & severe). Disorders presented in
order of severity.
Schizophrenia Spectrum & Psychotic Other Disorders




Fixed, false beliefs that are unchangeable. Content varies and can be bizarre or non-
bizarre. Non-bizarre are situations that are possible and bizarre are those that are
clearly implausible
Delusions (thinking)




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, DSM 5 EXAM
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Vivid & clear perceptions that occur w/out external stimuli. May occur in any
sensory modality. Auditory experiences are the most common and tend to be
experienced as voices that are distinct from one's own thoughts
Hallucinations (perception)




Usually inferred from speech - person switches from topic to topic (derailment or
loose associations) or provides answers that diverge from questions asked
(tangentiality)
Disorganized Thinking




May range from childlike silliness to unexpected agitation, typically interfering with
goal-directed behaviors and activities of daily living. Catatonia is a marked decrease
in reactivity that ranges from resistance to instructions (negativism), to maintaining
odd posture,to lack of verbal or motor response (mutism and stupor). Can also
involve excessive motor activity (catatonic excitement) repeated stereotype
movement, grimacing, and echoing of speech.
Grossly Disorganized or Abnormal Motor Behavior (including catatonia)




Include diminished emotional expression and avolition (decrease in self-initiated
purposeful activities), alogia (reduced speech output), anhedonia (diminished
pleasure) & asociality (lack of interest in social interactions)
Negative Symptoms



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Can be coded for any of the disorders. Criteria involve a clinical picture that is
dominated by 3 or more: stupor (no psychomotor activity), catalepsy (posture is
held passively, against gravity), waxy flexibility (resistance to positioning by
another), mutism (no verbal response), negativism (no response instructions or
external stimuli), posturing (actively maintaining a posture against gravity),
mannerism (caricature of normal actions), stereo to be repetitive non-goal directed
movements, agitation, grimacing, echolalia (mimicking another's speech) or
echopraxia (imitating another's movement)
Specifier w/catatonia




Is considered part of the schizophrenia spectrum and is also in the personality
disorders.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder




One or more delusions for at least one month with no additional symptoms found
in schizophrenia. The person's behavior is relatively unimpaired and is not
obviously. If manic or major depressive episodes occur concur with the delusions,
the duration of the moon episode is brief relative to the duration of the delusion.
Specifiers include erotomanic type, grandiose type, jealous type, persecutory type,
somatic type, mixed type, and unspecified type. Specifier with bizarre content if
bizarre. Onset is typically in middle to late adulthood & the most common subtype
is persecutory




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Delusional Disorder




Involves delusions and which another person, usually of higher status, is in love
with the individual
Erotomanic type




Characterized by delusions of inflated self-worth, power, knowledge, or a special
relationship to a deity or famous person
Grandiose type




Involves delusions in which the person believes that a sexual partner is being
unfaithful
Jealous type




Characterized by delusions in which the person is being persecuted or ill treated,
which may trigger violent behavior
Persecutory type



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