Quick Quiz: Name That Diagnosis II

Back by popular demand, quick quiz help for your ASWB exam prep. Like electronic flash cards or a unusual game show. Below find a set of partial diagnostic criteria from throughout the DSM. Your task, should you accept it: Name That Diagnosis.

1. Low or absent desire for sex for six months or more, in men.

2. Intrusion symptoms, negative mood, dissociative, avoidance, or arousal symptoms between three days and one month after exposure to trauma.

3. A combination of depressed mood, anhedonia, appetite, sleep, and focus problems, restlessness, fatigue, and/or feelings of worthlessness almost every day for at least two weeks.

4. Frequent angry, unplanned, and outsized outbursts after age six.

5. High level of stress in connection with physical symptoms which have no apparent medical explanation.

What do you think?

This set is a little easier than the ones from Name That Diagnosis I, but you still need to have a good handle on the DSM to people answer these without some wild guesses. If the ASWB exam were made up of questions like these, it'd be pretty easy to prepare for. You'd just memorize and ton of content and you'd be set. The actual exam contains vignette questions which combine memorizable content with close-call, real-world social work situations. Prepping for those is trickier. For most, taking lots and lots of practice tests is the best way to prepare. But as you're doing those, come back here. This kind of mental weightlifting is helpful too.

Good luck on the exam!

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1. Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

2. Acute Stress Disorder

3. Major Depressive Disorder

4. Intermittent Explosive Disorder

5. Somatic Symptom Disorder