NCTRC EXAM REVIEW 2026 DETAILED
QUESTIONS AND SOLVED SOLUTIONS
◉Type 2 schizophrenia:. Answer: display more negative symptoms
a. Restricted affect, poverty of speech, loss of volition
b. Tied largely to structural abnormailities in the brain
◉Type 1 Schizophrenia:. Answer: dominated by positive symptoms;
adjust better
a. Hallucination, delusion, certain formal thought disorder
b. Linked more closely to biochemical abnormailities
◉milieu therapy: humanistic principles. Answer: Maxwell Jones was
the first to apply milieu therapy in a hospital setting. Institutions can
help patients by creating social climate or milieu that builds
productive activity, self-respect and individual responsibility.
Patients may take on special projects, jobs, recreational activities.
Milieu-style programs has been set throughout western world. At a
minimum staff members try to encourage interactions. Patients
often improve and leave hospital at higher rates than patient in
program.
,◉Antipsychotic drugs:. Answer: Discovery of antipsychotic drugs
eliminate many symptoms; almost always part of treatment. First
antihistamine drugs combat allergies. Henri laborit discover the
phenothiazines, help calms patient to undergo surgery.
Chlorpromazine reduce psychotic symptoms sharply;
chlorpromazine is marketed under the trade name of Thorazine.
◉depression. Answer: are people who suffer from unipolar
depression. People with Depressive Disorder have no history of
mania and return to normal or nearly normal mood. People with
unipolar depression has thoughts about sad events, fatigue, or
unhappy. Unipolar disorder brings severe and long-lasting
psychological pain that may intensify as time goes by. People with
unipolar disorder may experience the lose to carry out the simplest
life activities.
◉Rehabilitation Comprehensive Services and Developmental
Disabilities Amendments of 1978. Answer: has a more functional
definition substituted for developmental disability. Developmental
disability is a severe and chornic disorder involving mental or
physical impairment that originates before 22 years of age.
◉Developmental Disabiliities Assistance Bills of Rights Act of 1970.
Answer: is the first bill in which developmental disabilities is first
mention.
is specific disabilities is classified as developmental disabilities.
,◉Cause of schizophrenia:. Answer: appears in late teen & mid 30's.
There are 3 phases of sufferer:
1. Prodromal phase: symptoms are not yet obivious; individuals
beginning to deteriorate; may withdraw socially, speak in vague/odd
ways, develop strange ideas, express little emotion
2. Active phase: symptoms become apparent
3. Residual phase: return to a prodromal like level of functioning.
-each phase last for day or years; better recovery for premorbid
functioning,
◉Cluster A. Answer: includes
PARANOID
SCHIZOID
SCHIZOTYPICAL PERSONALITY
disorders can be odd or eccentric.
◉Cluster B. Answer: includes:
ANTISOCIAL DISORDER
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
HISTRONIC
NARCISSITIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
, disorders is dramatic, emotional, and erratic
◉Cluster C. Answer: includes:
AVOIDANT Personality Disorder
DEPENDENT Personality Disorder
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER
disorders is anxiousness and fearfulness
◉Personality. Answer: a set of uniquely expressed characteristics
that influences bx, emotions, thoughts and interactions. Particular
characteristic is personality traits. lead us to react in predictable
ways, flexible.
◉Personality disorder. Answer: enduring pattern of experience,
outward bx impairs sense of self, emotional experiences, goals,
capacity for empthaty or intimacy. has extreme and dysfunctional
personality traits than most ppl w/o the personality disorder.
Personality disorder may result in poor functioning in both personal
and social realms. may have repeatedly feel angry and
unappreciated. The symptoms of personality disorder can last for
years.
QUESTIONS AND SOLVED SOLUTIONS
◉Type 2 schizophrenia:. Answer: display more negative symptoms
a. Restricted affect, poverty of speech, loss of volition
b. Tied largely to structural abnormailities in the brain
◉Type 1 Schizophrenia:. Answer: dominated by positive symptoms;
adjust better
a. Hallucination, delusion, certain formal thought disorder
b. Linked more closely to biochemical abnormailities
◉milieu therapy: humanistic principles. Answer: Maxwell Jones was
the first to apply milieu therapy in a hospital setting. Institutions can
help patients by creating social climate or milieu that builds
productive activity, self-respect and individual responsibility.
Patients may take on special projects, jobs, recreational activities.
Milieu-style programs has been set throughout western world. At a
minimum staff members try to encourage interactions. Patients
often improve and leave hospital at higher rates than patient in
program.
,◉Antipsychotic drugs:. Answer: Discovery of antipsychotic drugs
eliminate many symptoms; almost always part of treatment. First
antihistamine drugs combat allergies. Henri laborit discover the
phenothiazines, help calms patient to undergo surgery.
Chlorpromazine reduce psychotic symptoms sharply;
chlorpromazine is marketed under the trade name of Thorazine.
◉depression. Answer: are people who suffer from unipolar
depression. People with Depressive Disorder have no history of
mania and return to normal or nearly normal mood. People with
unipolar depression has thoughts about sad events, fatigue, or
unhappy. Unipolar disorder brings severe and long-lasting
psychological pain that may intensify as time goes by. People with
unipolar disorder may experience the lose to carry out the simplest
life activities.
◉Rehabilitation Comprehensive Services and Developmental
Disabilities Amendments of 1978. Answer: has a more functional
definition substituted for developmental disability. Developmental
disability is a severe and chornic disorder involving mental or
physical impairment that originates before 22 years of age.
◉Developmental Disabiliities Assistance Bills of Rights Act of 1970.
Answer: is the first bill in which developmental disabilities is first
mention.
is specific disabilities is classified as developmental disabilities.
,◉Cause of schizophrenia:. Answer: appears in late teen & mid 30's.
There are 3 phases of sufferer:
1. Prodromal phase: symptoms are not yet obivious; individuals
beginning to deteriorate; may withdraw socially, speak in vague/odd
ways, develop strange ideas, express little emotion
2. Active phase: symptoms become apparent
3. Residual phase: return to a prodromal like level of functioning.
-each phase last for day or years; better recovery for premorbid
functioning,
◉Cluster A. Answer: includes
PARANOID
SCHIZOID
SCHIZOTYPICAL PERSONALITY
disorders can be odd or eccentric.
◉Cluster B. Answer: includes:
ANTISOCIAL DISORDER
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
HISTRONIC
NARCISSITIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
, disorders is dramatic, emotional, and erratic
◉Cluster C. Answer: includes:
AVOIDANT Personality Disorder
DEPENDENT Personality Disorder
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER
disorders is anxiousness and fearfulness
◉Personality. Answer: a set of uniquely expressed characteristics
that influences bx, emotions, thoughts and interactions. Particular
characteristic is personality traits. lead us to react in predictable
ways, flexible.
◉Personality disorder. Answer: enduring pattern of experience,
outward bx impairs sense of self, emotional experiences, goals,
capacity for empthaty or intimacy. has extreme and dysfunctional
personality traits than most ppl w/o the personality disorder.
Personality disorder may result in poor functioning in both personal
and social realms. may have repeatedly feel angry and
unappreciated. The symptoms of personality disorder can last for
years.
