LCSW Exam I Latest Update Graded A

LCSW Exam I Latest Update Graded A Asperger's disorder severe impairments in social interactions and a restricted repertoire of behaviors and activities. No delays in language, self help skills, cognitive development or curiosity about the environment. Attention deficit and disruptive behavior disorder ADHD, conduct disorder and oppositional deiant disorder ADHD persistent, developmentally -inappropriate pattern of inattention and or hyperactivity impulsivity. ONSET prior to the age of seven. Last for six months and apparent in at least two settings. More common in males. As adolescents, engage in more antisocial behaviors and drug use than their peers. Conduct disorder persistent pattern of behaviors that violate the rights of others and age appropriate social rules. 1. aggression to people and animals, bullies, threatens or intimidates others. IF over eighteen only diagnosed if criteria for antisocial personality disorder is not met. Associated features of conduct disorder low self esteem, low frustration tolerance, irritability, temper outbursts. Additional substance related disorder may be warranted. Oppositional defiant disorder recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant and hostile behaviors toward authority figures. Loses temper, argues with adults, actively defies or challenges the rules or requests of adults, deliberately annoys people, blames others for their mistakes Pica eating of nutrious substances Rumination disorder repeated regurgitaiton, rechewing of food without apparent nausea or disgust Feeding disorder of infancy or early child hood persistent failure to eat adequately for at least one month accompanied by a resulting failure to gain weight or substance weight loss. What drug used to help with tic disorders haloperidol. Chronic motor vocla tick single or multiple motor or vocal tics but not by both. Separation anxiety disorder inappropriate, excessive anxiety related to separation from home or attachment figures. Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early child hood disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness in most settings that begins prior to the age of five. Delirium disturbance in consciousness. Change in cognition or development of perceptual abnormalities. Experiences reduced awareness of the environment, shifts in attention and distractibility. Disorientation to place and time. Important component treatment for delirium an environment that is designed to minimize disorientation. (quiet room with appropriate lighting). Drug treatments for delirium: Antipsychotics such as haloperidol Dementia development of cognitive deficits that include some degree of memory impairment and at least one of the following disturbances in cognition: Aphasia, apriazia, agnosia and disturbance in executive functioning aphasia deterioration in language functioning agnosia inability to recognize and identify familiar objects and people. Delirium and dementia both have impairment in memory but dementia does not exhibit loss of consciousness. In MDD, decline in memory and cognition is abrupt and person is aware of these impairments. People with dementia are not. Etiology Alzheimer's disease picks disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. Alzheimer's type gradual onset of symptoms and slow progressive decline in cognitive functioning. begins with deficits of memory and personality change or irritability. Diagnosed only when other causes of dementia have been ruled out. duration is until death. Vascular dementia caused by arteriosclerosis or other cerebrovascular disease. alcohol withdrawal delirium delirium tremens, disturbance in consciousness and other cognitive functions, autonomic hyperactivity, vivid hallucinations, delusions, agitation following a period of prolonged or heavy use of alcohol. alcohol induced persisting amnesic disorder (weirnicke korsakoff's syndrome): retrograde and anterograde amnesia, confabulation due to thiamine and other vitamin b deficiencies Amphetamine intoxication maladaptive behavioral and psychological changes (euphoria, anxiety, hyperactivity grandiosity, confusion, anger, paranoid ideation, auditory hallucination, tachycardia, elevated or lowered blood pressure, perspiration or chills, nausea or vomiting, weight loss Amphetamine withdrawal depressed mood, fatigue, vivid and unpleasant dreams, insomnia or hypersomnia, increased appetite and weight gain, psychomotor agitation or retardation following heavy or prolonged use of amphetamine Caffeine intoxication restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, gastrointestinal problems, muscle twitching, rambling thoughts of speech, Cannabis intoxication Euphoria, grandiosity, inappropriate laughter initially, followed by sedation, lethargy, disturbed sensory perceptions, impaired short term memory, judgment, impaired motor performance and a sense that time is passing slowly Cocaine intoxication Euphoria, gregariousness, hyperactivity, hypervifilence, anxiety, anger initially, affective blunting, sadness, social withdrawal with chronic use Cocaine withdrawal dysphoric mood, fatigue, vivid and unpleasant dreams, insomnia, or hyper somnia, increased appetite, psychomotor agitation or retardation, followed by heavy or prolonged use of cocaine. Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder transient recurrence of perceptual disturbances that previously occur during hallucinogen intoxication Sedative, hypnotic or anxiolytic maladaptive behavioral and psychological changes (inappropriate sexual or aggressive behavior, mood, lability, impaired judgment, Slurred speech, coordination, unsteady gait, nystagmus, impaired attention and memory stupor or coma Sedative, hypnotic or anxiolytic withdrawal autonomic hyperactivity, hand tremor, insomnia, nausea, anxiety, psychomotor agitation following heavy or prolonged use of a sedative hypnotic or anxiolotics schizophrenia positive symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized behaviors. experiences a lot of auditory hallucinations. Referential believes that passages from books or newspapers or other messages are specifically directed at her. Negative symptoms restricted range and intensity of emotions. affective flatenning9 reduced body language, expressionless face alogia (poverty of thought), avolition (restricted imitation of goal directed behavior) Five subtypes of schizophrenia paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, residual, undifferentiated.