LCSW CORE PRACTICE EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Persistent Motor/vocal tic Disorder - ✔✔need to have one tic only either motor or
vocal not both
✔✔Encopresis - ✔✔child who has been potty trained is pooping in inappropriate places.
Child has to be 4 years of age. Child can do this voluntary and involuntary
✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔in children, different levels of impairment. Persistent
issues with social engagement no eye contact lacks ability to understand emotions.
Restricted behavior such as motor movements. Clapping hands, repeat what others say
indifferent to pain or temperature. Very specific pattern of play. They are very rigid.
Onset in early childhood.
✔✔Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder - ✔✔In children only have deficit in
communication. Marked deficit in greeting. Not able to change either verbal cues. If they
are outside they are speaking loudly and when they go inside they continue. Onset in
early childhood.
✔✔Specific learning disorder - ✔✔A person cannot learn in a specific manner.
Example- reading disability. Cannot processing things in a typical manner. No able to
break up sounds.
✔✔Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔unstable relationships altercation between
idealization and
devaluation. Good object bad object. Feelings of emptiness, mood reactivity. Angry
outbursts followed by shame and guilt. Impulsivity that is self-damaging. Avoidance of
abandonment real or perceived suicidal thoughts self-mutilating behaviors. Identity
disturbance transient paranoia or dissociation.
✔✔Narcissist
Personality Disorder - ✔✔sense of entitlement- using others for personal gain
,grandiosity. Belief that they are special unique need for excessive admiration lack of
empathy envious of others and belief that others are envious of them fantasies of
success power, love arrogance.
✔✔Histrionic Personality Disorder - ✔✔constant demands for approval/praise
exaggeration of
emotion, discomfort when not the center of attention; sexual seductiveness use of
physical appearance to draw attention content of speech lacking detail, suggestibility,
rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotion belief that relationships are more
intimate than they really are view of themselves as glamorous and impressive
✔✔Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ✔✔diagnosed prior to age of 12 need to
have inability to pay attention in two settings Have a lot hyperactivity cannot sit still
excessive talking impulsivity. Hard time sustaining their attention. Hard time taking a
test. Child can have impulsivity. Hard time taking turns.
✔✔Delirium - ✔✔due to medication or medical illness it's a fast
onset memory impairment only last a few hours to a day
✔✔Mild Neurocognitive disorder - ✔✔person requires some assistance and their daily
activities
of living person has awareness that they need assistance
✔✔Illness anxiety disorder - ✔✔symptoms are very mild fear that the person will have a
serious disease even though they are fine. They have been told by the doctor they have
no illness. They avoid the doctor symptoms have to be present for 6 months.
✔✔Somatic Symptom Disorder - ✔✔one or more somatic symptoms concern with
symptoms spend their time worried about it. Symptoms have to be present for 6
months.
✔✔Conversion disorder - ✔✔when a psychological stressor turns into a somatic issue.
Example: A person get so mad their arm will go numb
✔✔Factitious disorder - ✔✔someone makes up they are sick to get attention
✔✔Malingering - ✔✔when someone fakes a disorder to get out something. Example
:when someone pleads insanity but they are not crazy.
✔✔Munchausen Syndrome by proxy - ✔✔a parent has a child get sick because they
like playing the
parent of a sick child.
✔✔Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔someone restricts their dietary intake that they lose
weight. Intense fear of gaining weight or to fat.
, ✔✔Bulimia nervosa - ✔✔binge eating excessive food more than usual. Self-induced
vomiting or excessive exercise
✔✔Binge eating disorder - ✔✔lack of control with their eating. Person will eat alone
because they are embarrassed of all the food they consume
✔✔Unspecified eating disorder - ✔✔person who does not meet criteria other eating
disorders.
✔✔Body Dysmorphic Disorder - ✔✔someone who is self-conscious about a part of
their body. Example people who get excessive surgery plastic surgery
✔✔Depersonalization/Derealization
Disorder - ✔✔report that they are in a dream state. Feel their
surroundings are unreal
✔✔Dissociative Amnesia - ✔✔person forgets specific events due to a
stressful event
✔✔Dissociative Identity Disorder - ✔✔two or more personality states. Shift between
two people
✔✔Genital -Pelvic Pain Penetration Disorder - ✔✔pain during intercourse or fear of pain
when they do have intercourse. Sometimes person unable to have sex.
✔✔Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder - ✔✔lack of sexual interest of arousal.
Lack of initiation no
interest in sex or decline in intimacy. Need to be present for 6 months
✔✔Insomnia - ✔✔difficulty sleeping 3 or more times a week for 3 months.
Falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up to early or person complaining of not getting
enough sleep.
✔✔Hyperinsomlance disorder - ✔✔excessive sleepiness needs more than 7 hours of
sleep
✔✔Nigthmare disorder - ✔✔someone wakes up with a nightmare and they can recall
the
dream which causes them distress
✔✔Schiziod personality disorder - ✔✔detachment from school relationships preference
of being
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Persistent Motor/vocal tic Disorder - ✔✔need to have one tic only either motor or
vocal not both
✔✔Encopresis - ✔✔child who has been potty trained is pooping in inappropriate places.
Child has to be 4 years of age. Child can do this voluntary and involuntary
✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔in children, different levels of impairment. Persistent
issues with social engagement no eye contact lacks ability to understand emotions.
Restricted behavior such as motor movements. Clapping hands, repeat what others say
indifferent to pain or temperature. Very specific pattern of play. They are very rigid.
Onset in early childhood.
✔✔Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder - ✔✔In children only have deficit in
communication. Marked deficit in greeting. Not able to change either verbal cues. If they
are outside they are speaking loudly and when they go inside they continue. Onset in
early childhood.
✔✔Specific learning disorder - ✔✔A person cannot learn in a specific manner.
Example- reading disability. Cannot processing things in a typical manner. No able to
break up sounds.
✔✔Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔unstable relationships altercation between
idealization and
devaluation. Good object bad object. Feelings of emptiness, mood reactivity. Angry
outbursts followed by shame and guilt. Impulsivity that is self-damaging. Avoidance of
abandonment real or perceived suicidal thoughts self-mutilating behaviors. Identity
disturbance transient paranoia or dissociation.
✔✔Narcissist
Personality Disorder - ✔✔sense of entitlement- using others for personal gain
,grandiosity. Belief that they are special unique need for excessive admiration lack of
empathy envious of others and belief that others are envious of them fantasies of
success power, love arrogance.
✔✔Histrionic Personality Disorder - ✔✔constant demands for approval/praise
exaggeration of
emotion, discomfort when not the center of attention; sexual seductiveness use of
physical appearance to draw attention content of speech lacking detail, suggestibility,
rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotion belief that relationships are more
intimate than they really are view of themselves as glamorous and impressive
✔✔Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ✔✔diagnosed prior to age of 12 need to
have inability to pay attention in two settings Have a lot hyperactivity cannot sit still
excessive talking impulsivity. Hard time sustaining their attention. Hard time taking a
test. Child can have impulsivity. Hard time taking turns.
✔✔Delirium - ✔✔due to medication or medical illness it's a fast
onset memory impairment only last a few hours to a day
✔✔Mild Neurocognitive disorder - ✔✔person requires some assistance and their daily
activities
of living person has awareness that they need assistance
✔✔Illness anxiety disorder - ✔✔symptoms are very mild fear that the person will have a
serious disease even though they are fine. They have been told by the doctor they have
no illness. They avoid the doctor symptoms have to be present for 6 months.
✔✔Somatic Symptom Disorder - ✔✔one or more somatic symptoms concern with
symptoms spend their time worried about it. Symptoms have to be present for 6
months.
✔✔Conversion disorder - ✔✔when a psychological stressor turns into a somatic issue.
Example: A person get so mad their arm will go numb
✔✔Factitious disorder - ✔✔someone makes up they are sick to get attention
✔✔Malingering - ✔✔when someone fakes a disorder to get out something. Example
:when someone pleads insanity but they are not crazy.
✔✔Munchausen Syndrome by proxy - ✔✔a parent has a child get sick because they
like playing the
parent of a sick child.
✔✔Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔someone restricts their dietary intake that they lose
weight. Intense fear of gaining weight or to fat.
, ✔✔Bulimia nervosa - ✔✔binge eating excessive food more than usual. Self-induced
vomiting or excessive exercise
✔✔Binge eating disorder - ✔✔lack of control with their eating. Person will eat alone
because they are embarrassed of all the food they consume
✔✔Unspecified eating disorder - ✔✔person who does not meet criteria other eating
disorders.
✔✔Body Dysmorphic Disorder - ✔✔someone who is self-conscious about a part of
their body. Example people who get excessive surgery plastic surgery
✔✔Depersonalization/Derealization
Disorder - ✔✔report that they are in a dream state. Feel their
surroundings are unreal
✔✔Dissociative Amnesia - ✔✔person forgets specific events due to a
stressful event
✔✔Dissociative Identity Disorder - ✔✔two or more personality states. Shift between
two people
✔✔Genital -Pelvic Pain Penetration Disorder - ✔✔pain during intercourse or fear of pain
when they do have intercourse. Sometimes person unable to have sex.
✔✔Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder - ✔✔lack of sexual interest of arousal.
Lack of initiation no
interest in sex or decline in intimacy. Need to be present for 6 months
✔✔Insomnia - ✔✔difficulty sleeping 3 or more times a week for 3 months.
Falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up to early or person complaining of not getting
enough sleep.
✔✔Hyperinsomlance disorder - ✔✔excessive sleepiness needs more than 7 hours of
sleep
✔✔Nigthmare disorder - ✔✔someone wakes up with a nightmare and they can recall
the
dream which causes them distress
✔✔Schiziod personality disorder - ✔✔detachment from school relationships preference
of being
