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LCSW Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, rated A+ SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER - ✔✔-Criteria for Schizophrenia Are Met An Episode of the Disorder Lasts at Least 1 Month but Less Than 6 Mo... nthsGood Prognosis if the Psychotic Symptoms Within 4 Weeks of Confusion or Perplexity Good Pre-morbid Social and Occupational Functioning Absence of Blunted or Flat Affect Kubler Ross Stages of Death - ✔✔-Denial Isolation, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance Conduct Disorders: - ✔✔-Repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that violate rights of others or norms. Aggression to people and animal, Destruction of property, Deceitfulness and theft, Serious violations of rules, Oppositional Defiant Disorder:- Persistent and totally negative, Hostile, and Defiant Behavior Object Relations Theory - ✔✔-psychoanalytic approach- relationships with others are based on early parent-child interactions; work on separating from the mother= full individuation; rapprochement spans the ages of 15 to 24 months and is characterized by active approach back to the caregiver. Respondent conditioning aka classical conditioning - ✔✔-Pavlov Relaxation and imagination of resolution. Graduated desensitization. Altering the antecedents of behavior. imagines problematic situations, develops a hierarchy of which to resolve. Operant Conditioning Modifications - ✔✔-response elicited by stimulus for a reward. differs from classical conditioning as reinforcement takes place after completion of action previously designated. If no unconditioned stimulus use, the desired behavior is known as an operant. Behavior occurs regularlyconditioned response. Skinner box Mahler Object Relations Theory - ✔✔-Autism- to 1 month; Symbiosis- to 5 month mother and child fused .; Separation-Individualization to 10 month; Practicing to 16 month move away from Mom; Rapprochement to 24 month move away and come back to Mom.; Consolidation and object constancy to 36 months. Freud - ✔✔-oral to 2 years; Anal to 4 years; Phallic to 6 years; Latency to 11 years; Genital and up. Piagets sensorimotor period parallels oral, language development parallels the development of the superego Erickson - ✔✔-Trust vs Mistrust to 2 years; Autonomy vs. Shame to 4 years; Initiative vs Guilt to 6 years; Industry vs Inferiority to 11; Identity vs Role Confusion to 19; Intimacy vs Isolation- young adult; Generativity vs Stagnation- Adult; Integrity vs Despair- Later Age Piaget - ✔✔-Sensorimotor 2 years; Preoperational to 7 years; Concrete operational to 11 years Formal operational and up AGORAPHOBIA Anxiety about places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing, leading to anxiety - ✔✔-Situations r avoided SPECIFIC PHOBIA Marked or Persistent Fear That Is Excessive or Unreasonable, Cued By the Presence or Anticipation of a Specific Object or Situation: Flying, Heights, Animals Mental retardation - ✔✔-Mild 55 to 70; Moderate 40 to 55; Severe 25 to 40; Profound below 20 Etiology of disorder is not a criteria for MR Schizophrenia - ✔✔-Positive- hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and negative- affective flattening, alogia or poverty of speech and avolution loss of goal directed behavior. Catatonic Schizophrenia - ✔✔-Stupor, mutism, rigidity, purposeless motor activity posturing echolalia Disorganized Schizophrenia - ✔✔-Disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, and flat or inappropriate affect are prominent. The criteria are not met for Catatonic Type. Paranoid Schizophrenia - ✔✔-Preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations. these symptoms not prominent- disorganized speech or catatonic behavior, flat or inappropriate affect Residual Schizophrenia - ✔✔-Negative symptoms or two or more criterion for schizophrenia odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences. Absence of prominent delusions. Present in an attenuated form for example odd beliefs, unusal perceptual experiences Undifferentiated Schizophrenia - ✔✔-doesn't meet criteria but there are delusions, hallucinations. Criterion A are present, but the criteria are not met for the Paranoid, Disorganized, or Catatonic Adjustment disorder - ✔✔-Major mood, anxiety, conduct/behavioral symptoms in response to a stressor. Occuring with in three months of the stressor. Does not meet criteria for MDD. not exacerbation of another Axis I or II disorder. Can cause impairment in functioning Adjustment disorder with depressed mood - ✔✔-within 3 months with signs of depressed mood not uncomplicated bereavement The stressor may be a one-time event or a recurring situation. Histrionic personality disorder - ✔✔-Marked by emotional ATTENTION-SEEKING behavior in which the person needs to be the center of attention. The person with histrionic personality disorder is impulsive and melodramatic and may act flirtatious or provocative narcissistic personality disorder - ✔✔-characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with fantasies of success or power, and a need for constant attention or admiration borderline personality disorder - ✔✔-a personality disorder characterized by lack of stability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion; impulsivity; angry outbursts; intense fear of abandonment; recurring suicidal gestures cyclothymia - ✔✔-For at least 2 Yrs, the presence of many periods with Hypomania n Depression the person has not been without smptoms for more than 2 months No episodes of Major Depression, Mania, or Mixed Episode hypomania - ✔✔-manic episodes not severe enough to seriously impair functioning. No delusions Bipolar 2 - ✔✔-• Never has had a Manic Episode May have had episode of Hypomania Bipolar 1 - ✔✔-6 criteria single manic or most recent hypomanic, manic, mixed, depressed or unspecified disorder severe mood swings that impair their daily life and negatively affect their relationships. Must have had at least 1 Episode of illness meeting the full criteria for Mania social cultural theory - ✔✔-Vgotsky views cognitive development as a socially mediated process where adult support called scaffolding helps children master skills they can't do on their own Dysthymia - ✔✔-a low-grade chronic depression with symptoms that are milder than those of severe depression but are present on a majority of days for 2 or more years major depression 5 + symptoms 2 weeks nearly every day from normal functioning. - ✔✔-Depressed mood or loss of pleasure, weight loss, insomnia, hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, worthlessness, guilt, poor concentration, recurrent thoughts of death Single Episode or Recurrent With or Without Psychotic, catatonic, melancholic, atypical & postpartum Panic Disorder - ✔✔-Chills, palpitations, Paresthesias- Numbness or Tingling, sweating trembling, SOB, nausea, dizzy, feels unreality or loss of control, faint, fears dying Tricyclid antidepressants Derealization or Depersonalization at least 1 attack then at least 1 month of concern about more attacks Manic Episode - ✔✔-Distinct Period of abnormally n persistently elevated or irritable mood at Least 1 Week during the period, 3 or more Inflated Self-esteem or Grandiosity, less need for sleep, pressured speech flight of ideas, increased in activities. Interferes w daily life Obsessive compulsive disorder - ✔✔-Recurrent persistent thoughts that are intrusive not simple worry about real life. Person tries to suppress w action and recognizes that r from own mind. Compulsions repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing distress PTSD traumatic event- fear of death or injury re experienced with - ✔✔-Dreams, intrusive recollections hallucinations, flashback, reacts external cues. Avoids stimuli n activities, people, or job. symptoms increased arousal, insomnia, anger, poor concentration, Hypervigilance. Acute less 3 Months; Chronic greater 3 Months; Delayed Onset Symptoms after 6 months Generalized Anxiety disorder - ✔✔-unrealistic and excessive anxiety and worry about two or more life circumstances in 3 months of stressor. 3 or more motor tension, vigilance, insomnia, restlessness, fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and scanning. CBT best for GAD. more days than not for 6 months Dissociative identity disorder - ✔✔-A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder. dissociative fugue - ✔✔-Abrupt change in geographic location with inability to recall past, confusion about personal identity or assumption of a new identity. . Leads to significant distress or impairment. dissociative amnesia - ✔✔-A sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature. Depersonalization disorder - ✔✔-Persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body such as feeling like one is in a dream. Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder - ✔✔-6 plus inattention: careless mistakes, tasks inattention, does not listen instructions, cannot organize, poor concentration, loses things, distracted by external stimulus. 6 or more hyperactivity- fidget, leaves seat, runs around, talks often; Impulsivity, interrupts others . Before age 7; 6 months Autistic disorder - ✔✔-Severe pervasive development disorder usually appearing before age of three. ecolalia and echokinesis Conduct disorder - ✔✔-Aggression to people and animals Destruction of property Deceitfulness or theft Serious violations of rules If 18 years or older, criteria are not met for Antisocial Personality Disorder. No emotional characteristics then it is ODD Reactive Attachment Disorder - ✔✔-Developmentally inappropriate social relatedness before age 5, inhibited, hypervigilant or ambivalent, diffuse attachments. May be due to abuse or changes of primary caregiver that prevent formation of stable attachments. somatization disorder - ✔✔-A psychological disorder involving combinations of multiple physical complaints with no medical explanation. Begins before age 30 impairment in functioning conversion disorder - ✔✔-A somatoform disorder in which a psychosocial need or conflict is converted into dramatic physical symptoms that affect voluntary motor or sensory function. Factitious disorder - ✔✔-Intentional feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal benefits that a sick role may provide, including the attention and concern of medical personnel and/or family members Anti-psychotics - ✔✔-Haldol, Risperdal, Abilify, Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Geodon Tranquilizers - ✔✔-psychoactive drugs--ex. XANAX, VALIUM, LIBRIUM--DEPRESSANT--inhibits neural arousal centers--reduces anxiety without inducing sleep Hypnotics - ✔✔-Ambien, Sonata, Lunesta- effect sleep Tricyclic antidepressants - ✔✔-Amitriptyline, Imipramine, Desipramine, Clomipramine, Doxepin, Amoxepine Tofranil Pamelor MAO Inhibitors Antidepressants - ✔✔-Eldepryl, Nardil takes 3 weeks to be effective. Other Antidepressants - ✔✔-Also used for nicotine control Wellbutrin Paxil Prozac Effexor Desyrel ADHD meds - ✔✔-Aderall Concerta Cylert Ritalin Ego psychology - ✔✔-Individual is born with a innate capacity for adaptation. The ego mediates between the individual and the environment. based on current or past functioning, inner capacity and external circumstances. to restore individual adaptive functioning [Show More]

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