LCSW Exam 2025 Questions and
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Schizophrenia - ✔✔last for six months and includes at least one month of active-phase
symptoms, e.g. delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, affective flattening,
alogia and avolition; typcially onsets in late teens to early 30's
Paranoid schizophrenia - ✔✔preoccupation with one or more delusions and/or
frequent auditory hallucinations within the context of relatively intact cognition and
affect. Usually the delusions are organized around a coherent theme ; delusions are
usually delusions of persecution or of grandeur.
Disorganized schizophrenia - ✔✔fragmentary delusions, not organized into a theme.
Speech and behavior may also be disorganized. Affect may be inappropriate or flat
Catatonic schizophrenia - ✔✔symptoms include at least two of the following: motoric
immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism, mutism, echolalia, echopraxia
Undifferentiated schizophrenia - ✔✔the symptoms do not meet the criteria for a specific
subtype
Residual schizophrenia - ✔✔person is not currently exhibiting delusions, hallucinations
or other positive symptoms. The person has had these symptoms in the past and
continues to display negative symptoms (affective flattening, alogia and avolition)
and/or attenuated positive symptoms
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, alogia - ✔✔Poverty of thinking as manifested by restricted speech consisting mostly of
short, concrete, repetitive, and sterotyped replies lacking in spontaneity or information
avolition - ✔✔loss of willingness or ability to pursue goals
Schizophreniform Disorder - ✔✔the criteria are identical to schizophrenia EXCEPT that
the disturbance is present for at least one month but less than six months; impaired
social and occupational functioning is not required to make this diagnosis, although
they may be present
Schizoaffective Disorder - ✔✔an uninterrupted period of disturbance in which there are
concurrent symptoms of a mood disorder and the psychotic, active-phase symptoms of
schizophrenia and during which hallucinations or delusions are present without a
mood disturbance for at least 2 weeks
Delusional disorder - ✔✔the presence of one or more nonbizzare delusions that last at
least one month
Brief psychotic disorder - ✔✔delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or
grossly catatonic behavior that is present for at least one day but less than one month
(with an eventual return to full functioning)
Depersonalization disorder - ✔✔one or more episodes of depersonalization (a feeling of
detachment or estrangement from oneself).
Dissociative amnesia - ✔✔one or more episodes of an inability to recall important
personal information that cannot be attributed to ordinary forgetfulness.
Dissociative Fugue - ✔✔abrupt, unexpected travel away from home or work with an
inability to recall some or all of one's past
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Schizophrenia - ✔✔last for six months and includes at least one month of active-phase
symptoms, e.g. delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, affective flattening,
alogia and avolition; typcially onsets in late teens to early 30's
Paranoid schizophrenia - ✔✔preoccupation with one or more delusions and/or
frequent auditory hallucinations within the context of relatively intact cognition and
affect. Usually the delusions are organized around a coherent theme ; delusions are
usually delusions of persecution or of grandeur.
Disorganized schizophrenia - ✔✔fragmentary delusions, not organized into a theme.
Speech and behavior may also be disorganized. Affect may be inappropriate or flat
Catatonic schizophrenia - ✔✔symptoms include at least two of the following: motoric
immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism, mutism, echolalia, echopraxia
Undifferentiated schizophrenia - ✔✔the symptoms do not meet the criteria for a specific
subtype
Residual schizophrenia - ✔✔person is not currently exhibiting delusions, hallucinations
or other positive symptoms. The person has had these symptoms in the past and
continues to display negative symptoms (affective flattening, alogia and avolition)
and/or attenuated positive symptoms
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, alogia - ✔✔Poverty of thinking as manifested by restricted speech consisting mostly of
short, concrete, repetitive, and sterotyped replies lacking in spontaneity or information
avolition - ✔✔loss of willingness or ability to pursue goals
Schizophreniform Disorder - ✔✔the criteria are identical to schizophrenia EXCEPT that
the disturbance is present for at least one month but less than six months; impaired
social and occupational functioning is not required to make this diagnosis, although
they may be present
Schizoaffective Disorder - ✔✔an uninterrupted period of disturbance in which there are
concurrent symptoms of a mood disorder and the psychotic, active-phase symptoms of
schizophrenia and during which hallucinations or delusions are present without a
mood disturbance for at least 2 weeks
Delusional disorder - ✔✔the presence of one or more nonbizzare delusions that last at
least one month
Brief psychotic disorder - ✔✔delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or
grossly catatonic behavior that is present for at least one day but less than one month
(with an eventual return to full functioning)
Depersonalization disorder - ✔✔one or more episodes of depersonalization (a feeling of
detachment or estrangement from oneself).
Dissociative amnesia - ✔✔one or more episodes of an inability to recall important
personal information that cannot be attributed to ordinary forgetfulness.
Dissociative Fugue - ✔✔abrupt, unexpected travel away from home or work with an
inability to recall some or all of one's past
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