Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker (LBSW) Practice Exam

Dissociative fugue is described by sudden, purposeful travel or wandering away from home accompanied by an inability to recall one's past and, in some cases, the assumption of a new identity. This pattern follows intense stress or trauma and involves amnesia for autobiographical information during the fugue state, with memory often returning afterward or revealing gaps. In current classifications, the condition is treated as a specifier of dissociative amnesia, but the defining feature remains the combination of amnesia with travel and sometimes a new identity. The other options don’t fit this hallmark: Dissociative amnesia involves memory loss without the travel or identity change; Dissociative identity disorder centers on multiple identities with gaps across identities rather than travel; PTSD centers on trauma-related symptoms like intrusive memories and hyperarousal, not amnesia with wandering.