LCSW Practice Exam Questions with Complete Solutions

LCSW Practice Exam Questions with Complete Solutions Schizophrenia A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. Schizophreniform Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months. Schizotypal Class A personality disorder. A personality disorder characterized by extreme discomfort in close relationships, odd forms of thinking and perceiving, and behavioral eccentricities. Researches believe that symptoms are often linked to family conflict. Schizoaffective Disorder A psychotic disorder involving an uninterrupted period of disturbance in which there are concurrent symptoms of a mood disorder and the active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia with at least a tow-week period in which hallucinations and delusions are present without predominant mood symptoms. psychotic disorder A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions. A break in reality 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 intrapsychic conflict Conflict within the mind, often due to conflict b/w id, ego, superego and reality Brief psychotic disorder A psychotic disorder lasting from a day to a month that often follows exposure to a major stressor. Delusional disorder A. Nonbizarre delusions (i.e., involving situations that occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, infected, loved at a distance, or deceived by spouse or lover, or having a disease) of at least 1 month's duration. Schizoid Cluster A personality disorder. Persistent avoidance of social relationships and limited emotional expression. Schizophrenia Paranoid type Preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations re: fear of being harmed or watched. No disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or flat or inappropriate affect If a Panic attack or Depressive Mood is caused by by a medical condition it is called? Anxiety disorder or Mood Disorder. A person with hyperthyroid condition may experience what? panic attacks Somatization Disorder A psychological disorder involving combinations of multiple physical complaints with no medical explanation. Cyclothymic Disorder A mood disorder characterized by moderate but frequent mood swings that are not severe enough to qualify as bipolar disorder. hypomanic Like manic disorder except mood disturbance is not severe enough to cause marked impairment in social/ and or occupational funcitoning or to neccessitate hospitalization. No psychotic features. Paraphilias inappropriate sexual object or practice. Parasomnias abnormal event that occurs during sleep or during sleep and waking. Dyssomnia disturbance in amount, timing, or quality of sleep. Double-bind Conflicting messages both true that contradict each other; situation where body language contradicts verbal language. reaction formation Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate. Complementarity An interactional pattern in which members of an intimate relationship establish roles and take on behavioral patterns which fulfill the unconscious needs and demands of the other. dynamic equilibrium A state of balance between continuing processes. paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. aphasia difficulty understand a persons ideas in areas reading, writing, and speaking avolition An inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities. (e.d., work, intellectual pursuits, self-care). lack of motivation ethropy increases, same Cathexis process by which the id invests energy into an object in an attempt to achieve gratification alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. There may be brief and concrete replies to questions and restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech (poverty of speech). Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive or stereotyped. (poverty of content)