LCSW UPDATED TEST ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Schizophrenic, Resifual Type - ✔✔Not currently displaying symptoms displayed in
the past
✔✔Mood - ✔✔The general feeling (e.g. depressed)
✔✔Affect - ✔✔How you show it (e.g. flat or blunted)
✔✔Brief Psychotic Disorder - ✔✔AKA 3 day schizophrenia, symptoms have existed no
longer than a month with a sudden onset linked to a psychosocial stressor
✔✔Schizophreniform Disorder - ✔✔Episode is less than six months
✔✔Schizoaffective Disorder - ✔✔Having a mixture of symptoms suggestive of both an
affective (mood) disorder and schizophrenia
✔✔Shared Psychotic Disorder - ✔✔Folie a Deux, two people share and create a
delusional system
✔✔Positive symptoms - ✔✔refers to hallucinations and/or delusions
✔✔Delusions - ✔✔Strong beliefs held against strong contrary evidence
✔✔Hallucinations - ✔✔Inaccurate perceptions where inaccurate auditory stimuli is the
most common
✔✔Negative symptoms - ✔✔Refers to lack of movement (avolition) or speech (alogia)
✔✔Old or Typical Antipsychotic Medications - ✔✔Chlorpromazine/Thorazine,
Thioridazine/Mellaril, Trifluoperazine/Stelazine, Phenazine/Prolixin, Haloperidol/Haldol
, ✔✔General side effects with Antipsychotic medications - ✔✔Drowsiness or Sleepiness
✔✔Dystonia - ✔✔Acute contractions of the tongue (stiff or thick tongue)
✔✔Akathisia - ✔✔Most common form of EPS
✔✔Anti-Parkinsonian Medications used to decrease EPS side effects -
✔✔Cogentin/benzotrpine, Artane/trihexxyphenidyl, Benadryl/diphenhydramine
✔✔Tardive Dyskinesia - ✔✔Permanent neurological condition that can result from using
the older antipsychotic medications and not taking anything to help control the EPS side
effects
✔✔New or Ayypical Anti-psychotic Medications - ✔✔Clozapine/Clozaril,
Risperdone/Risperdal, Olanzapine/Zyprexa
✔✔Manic Episode - ✔✔Presenting mood is persistently elevated. Must have at least 3
of these symptoms: increased psychomotor agitation, flight of ideas, decreased need for
sleep, grandiosity, sexual preoccupation, positive symptoms, episodes last
approximately 1 week
✔✔Hypomanic Episode - ✔✔Symptoms not severe enough to interfere with functioning,
expansive, irritable and elevated mood that lasts at least 4 days
✔✔Major Depressive Episode - ✔✔Depressed mood lasting approximately 2 weeks;
changes in sleeping or eating (increase or decrease) appetite disturbance, gatigue,
reduced ability to concentrate, delusions are possible
✔✔Mixed Episode - ✔✔Alternating moods lasting approximately 1 week, must meet
criteria for both manic and depressive
✔✔Bipolar I Disorder - ✔✔One or more manic episodes, usually with a history of
depressive episodes, can have psychotic aspects
✔✔Bipolar II Disorder - ✔✔One or more depressive with at least one hypomanic
episodes, no psychosis
✔✔Cyclothymic Disorder - ✔✔Persistant mood disturbance lasting at least two years,
must not be without for two months
✔✔Dysthymia - ✔✔Two year history of depressed mood, must not be without for two
months
✔✔Lithium - ✔✔Used to treat Bipolar disorder, Need routine lithuim levels
SET A+
✔✔Schizophrenic, Resifual Type - ✔✔Not currently displaying symptoms displayed in
the past
✔✔Mood - ✔✔The general feeling (e.g. depressed)
✔✔Affect - ✔✔How you show it (e.g. flat or blunted)
✔✔Brief Psychotic Disorder - ✔✔AKA 3 day schizophrenia, symptoms have existed no
longer than a month with a sudden onset linked to a psychosocial stressor
✔✔Schizophreniform Disorder - ✔✔Episode is less than six months
✔✔Schizoaffective Disorder - ✔✔Having a mixture of symptoms suggestive of both an
affective (mood) disorder and schizophrenia
✔✔Shared Psychotic Disorder - ✔✔Folie a Deux, two people share and create a
delusional system
✔✔Positive symptoms - ✔✔refers to hallucinations and/or delusions
✔✔Delusions - ✔✔Strong beliefs held against strong contrary evidence
✔✔Hallucinations - ✔✔Inaccurate perceptions where inaccurate auditory stimuli is the
most common
✔✔Negative symptoms - ✔✔Refers to lack of movement (avolition) or speech (alogia)
✔✔Old or Typical Antipsychotic Medications - ✔✔Chlorpromazine/Thorazine,
Thioridazine/Mellaril, Trifluoperazine/Stelazine, Phenazine/Prolixin, Haloperidol/Haldol
, ✔✔General side effects with Antipsychotic medications - ✔✔Drowsiness or Sleepiness
✔✔Dystonia - ✔✔Acute contractions of the tongue (stiff or thick tongue)
✔✔Akathisia - ✔✔Most common form of EPS
✔✔Anti-Parkinsonian Medications used to decrease EPS side effects -
✔✔Cogentin/benzotrpine, Artane/trihexxyphenidyl, Benadryl/diphenhydramine
✔✔Tardive Dyskinesia - ✔✔Permanent neurological condition that can result from using
the older antipsychotic medications and not taking anything to help control the EPS side
effects
✔✔New or Ayypical Anti-psychotic Medications - ✔✔Clozapine/Clozaril,
Risperdone/Risperdal, Olanzapine/Zyprexa
✔✔Manic Episode - ✔✔Presenting mood is persistently elevated. Must have at least 3
of these symptoms: increased psychomotor agitation, flight of ideas, decreased need for
sleep, grandiosity, sexual preoccupation, positive symptoms, episodes last
approximately 1 week
✔✔Hypomanic Episode - ✔✔Symptoms not severe enough to interfere with functioning,
expansive, irritable and elevated mood that lasts at least 4 days
✔✔Major Depressive Episode - ✔✔Depressed mood lasting approximately 2 weeks;
changes in sleeping or eating (increase or decrease) appetite disturbance, gatigue,
reduced ability to concentrate, delusions are possible
✔✔Mixed Episode - ✔✔Alternating moods lasting approximately 1 week, must meet
criteria for both manic and depressive
✔✔Bipolar I Disorder - ✔✔One or more manic episodes, usually with a history of
depressive episodes, can have psychotic aspects
✔✔Bipolar II Disorder - ✔✔One or more depressive with at least one hypomanic
episodes, no psychosis
✔✔Cyclothymic Disorder - ✔✔Persistant mood disturbance lasting at least two years,
must not be without for two months
✔✔Dysthymia - ✔✔Two year history of depressed mood, must not be without for two
months
✔✔Lithium - ✔✔Used to treat Bipolar disorder, Need routine lithuim levels
