LCSW MAIN REVIEWS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Anti-Anxiety Medications - ✔✔Buspar, Alprazolam/Xanax, Diazepam/Valium--
Potentially addictive
✔✔Somatization Disorder - ✔✔Recurrent and multiple somatic complaints (at least 13)
begins in teens, onset before age 30
✔✔Conversion Disorder - ✔✔A change or loss in physical functioning and not related to
a physical condition, individual does not have voluntary control of symptoms
✔✔Hypochondriasis - ✔✔Unrealistic interpretation of physical symptoms as an
abnormal, preoccupation with the fear of being seriously ill. They can acknowledge that
there are no grounds for fear.
✔✔Body Dysmorphic Disorder - ✔✔Preoccupation with an imagined body flaw
✔✔Factitous Disorder - ✔✔Person creating physical symptoms for attention
✔✔Depersonalization Disorder - ✔✔Causing significant distress for the individual,
during episodes reality testing remains intact
✔✔Fetishism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving use of non-living objects
✔✔Transvestitism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving cross dressing
✔✔Pedophilia - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving interest in prepubertal
children, to be considered a perpetrator you must be five years older than the victim,
and the perpetrator must be at least 16 years of age
✔✔Exhibitionism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving exposing genitals
, ✔✔Voyeurism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving observing others engaging
in sex
✔✔Sexual Masochism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving sexual excitement
through pain infliction
✔✔Frotteurism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving touching/rubbing against a
nonconsenting person
✔✔Male Erectile Disorder - ✔✔Failure to obtain/maintain erection
✔✔Premature Ejaculation - ✔✔Does so with minimal simulation after insertion into
vagina
✔✔Dysparenuria - ✔✔Genital pain in male/female during/after sex
✔✔Vaginismus - ✔✔Recurrent or persistent involuntary spasm of muscalature that
interferes with sex
✔✔Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔Intense fear of gaining weight, usually underweight
✔✔Bulimia Nervosa - ✔✔Episodes of binge eating, self induced vomiting
✔✔Schizoid Personality Disorder - ✔✔Very detached with a pattern of indifference, lack
of desire for intimacy
✔✔Schizotypal Personality Disorder - ✔✔More typical of shizophrenia, numerous social
and interpersonal problems--Ideas of Reference found here
✔✔Ideas of Reference - ✔✔Incorrect interpretation of a causal incident as having a
particular or unusual meaning to a person
✔✔Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔Instability of self, Needs clear boundaries,
Defuse crisis formulation in treatment, DBT
✔✔Narcissistic - ✔✔Grandiose sense of self-importance, lack of empathy is a criteria
✔✔Histrionic Personality Disorder - ✔✔Overly dramatic behavior
✔✔Assessing Danger to Self - ✔✔A "Do no harm agreement" or a "No suicide
agreement" is used to document and plan for avoidance of the potential harm to self or
others
✔✔WAIS - ✔✔Intelligence Assessment for adults
SET A+
✔✔Anti-Anxiety Medications - ✔✔Buspar, Alprazolam/Xanax, Diazepam/Valium--
Potentially addictive
✔✔Somatization Disorder - ✔✔Recurrent and multiple somatic complaints (at least 13)
begins in teens, onset before age 30
✔✔Conversion Disorder - ✔✔A change or loss in physical functioning and not related to
a physical condition, individual does not have voluntary control of symptoms
✔✔Hypochondriasis - ✔✔Unrealistic interpretation of physical symptoms as an
abnormal, preoccupation with the fear of being seriously ill. They can acknowledge that
there are no grounds for fear.
✔✔Body Dysmorphic Disorder - ✔✔Preoccupation with an imagined body flaw
✔✔Factitous Disorder - ✔✔Person creating physical symptoms for attention
✔✔Depersonalization Disorder - ✔✔Causing significant distress for the individual,
during episodes reality testing remains intact
✔✔Fetishism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving use of non-living objects
✔✔Transvestitism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving cross dressing
✔✔Pedophilia - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving interest in prepubertal
children, to be considered a perpetrator you must be five years older than the victim,
and the perpetrator must be at least 16 years of age
✔✔Exhibitionism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving exposing genitals
, ✔✔Voyeurism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving observing others engaging
in sex
✔✔Sexual Masochism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving sexual excitement
through pain infliction
✔✔Frotteurism - ✔✔strong sexual fantasy or urges involving touching/rubbing against a
nonconsenting person
✔✔Male Erectile Disorder - ✔✔Failure to obtain/maintain erection
✔✔Premature Ejaculation - ✔✔Does so with minimal simulation after insertion into
vagina
✔✔Dysparenuria - ✔✔Genital pain in male/female during/after sex
✔✔Vaginismus - ✔✔Recurrent or persistent involuntary spasm of muscalature that
interferes with sex
✔✔Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔Intense fear of gaining weight, usually underweight
✔✔Bulimia Nervosa - ✔✔Episodes of binge eating, self induced vomiting
✔✔Schizoid Personality Disorder - ✔✔Very detached with a pattern of indifference, lack
of desire for intimacy
✔✔Schizotypal Personality Disorder - ✔✔More typical of shizophrenia, numerous social
and interpersonal problems--Ideas of Reference found here
✔✔Ideas of Reference - ✔✔Incorrect interpretation of a causal incident as having a
particular or unusual meaning to a person
✔✔Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔Instability of self, Needs clear boundaries,
Defuse crisis formulation in treatment, DBT
✔✔Narcissistic - ✔✔Grandiose sense of self-importance, lack of empathy is a criteria
✔✔Histrionic Personality Disorder - ✔✔Overly dramatic behavior
✔✔Assessing Danger to Self - ✔✔A "Do no harm agreement" or a "No suicide
agreement" is used to document and plan for avoidance of the potential harm to self or
others
✔✔WAIS - ✔✔Intelligence Assessment for adults
