LCSW STUDYS ALL SET ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔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
✔✔Functional Theory - ✔✔A problem solving focus with free will, importance is agency
function in the helping process, clients are active and are capable of individual choice
✔✔Psychosexual Theory - ✔✔Freud, little to no free will
✔✔Stage 1-Oral - ✔✔Age 0-12 months, Source of Satisfaction-Mouth, Primary conflict
weaning
✔✔Stage 2-Anal - ✔✔Age 1-3 years, Source of Satisfaction- Anal Region,
✔✔Stage 3-Phallic - ✔✔Age 3-6 years, Source of Satisfication-Genitals, Primary conflict
Oedipus/Electra Complex, identification with same sex parent and helps develop the
super-ego
, ✔✔Stage 4- Latency - ✔✔Age 6-12 years, Socialization stage, child adapts to his/her
environment
✔✔Stage 5-Genital - ✔✔Age 12+,Interpersonal relations, freedom to love/work
✔✔Ego Psychology (Psychodynamic Theory) - ✔✔Ana Freud, focus on the healthy
individual-not the sick one, utilizes effects of the conscious and unconscious
✔✔Scientific Determinism - ✔✔Individuals are products of the past, understanding the
past explains the present
✔✔Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔Used to control anxiety
✔✔Altruism - ✔✔Individual receives gratification either vicariously or from the response
of others
✔✔Humor - ✔✔Emphasizing the amusing or ironic aspects of the conflict or stressor
✔✔Sublimation - ✔✔Channeling potentially maladaptive feelings or impulses into
socially acceptable behavior
✔✔Suppression - ✔✔Intentionally avoiding thinking about disturbing problems, wishes,
feelings, or experiences
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔Transferring a feeling about, or a response to, one object onto
another
✔✔Dissociation - ✔✔A breakdown in the usually integrated functions of consciousness,
memory, perception of self or the environment, or sensory/motor behavior
✔✔Intellectualization - ✔✔Minimizing disturbing feelings
✔✔Isolation of affect - ✔✔Losing touch with the feelings associated with a given idea
✔✔Reaction Formation - ✔✔Subsituting behavior, thoughts, or feelings that are
diametrically opposed to his or her own unacceptable thoughts or feelings
✔✔Repression - ✔✔Expelling disturbing wishes, thoughts, or experiences from
conscious awareness
✔✔Devaluation - ✔✔Exaggerated negative qualities to self or others
✔✔Idealization - ✔✔Exaggerated positive qualities to others
SET A+
✔✔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
✔✔Functional Theory - ✔✔A problem solving focus with free will, importance is agency
function in the helping process, clients are active and are capable of individual choice
✔✔Psychosexual Theory - ✔✔Freud, little to no free will
✔✔Stage 1-Oral - ✔✔Age 0-12 months, Source of Satisfaction-Mouth, Primary conflict
weaning
✔✔Stage 2-Anal - ✔✔Age 1-3 years, Source of Satisfaction- Anal Region,
✔✔Stage 3-Phallic - ✔✔Age 3-6 years, Source of Satisfication-Genitals, Primary conflict
Oedipus/Electra Complex, identification with same sex parent and helps develop the
super-ego
, ✔✔Stage 4- Latency - ✔✔Age 6-12 years, Socialization stage, child adapts to his/her
environment
✔✔Stage 5-Genital - ✔✔Age 12+,Interpersonal relations, freedom to love/work
✔✔Ego Psychology (Psychodynamic Theory) - ✔✔Ana Freud, focus on the healthy
individual-not the sick one, utilizes effects of the conscious and unconscious
✔✔Scientific Determinism - ✔✔Individuals are products of the past, understanding the
past explains the present
✔✔Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔Used to control anxiety
✔✔Altruism - ✔✔Individual receives gratification either vicariously or from the response
of others
✔✔Humor - ✔✔Emphasizing the amusing or ironic aspects of the conflict or stressor
✔✔Sublimation - ✔✔Channeling potentially maladaptive feelings or impulses into
socially acceptable behavior
✔✔Suppression - ✔✔Intentionally avoiding thinking about disturbing problems, wishes,
feelings, or experiences
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔Transferring a feeling about, or a response to, one object onto
another
✔✔Dissociation - ✔✔A breakdown in the usually integrated functions of consciousness,
memory, perception of self or the environment, or sensory/motor behavior
✔✔Intellectualization - ✔✔Minimizing disturbing feelings
✔✔Isolation of affect - ✔✔Losing touch with the feelings associated with a given idea
✔✔Reaction Formation - ✔✔Subsituting behavior, thoughts, or feelings that are
diametrically opposed to his or her own unacceptable thoughts or feelings
✔✔Repression - ✔✔Expelling disturbing wishes, thoughts, or experiences from
conscious awareness
✔✔Devaluation - ✔✔Exaggerated negative qualities to self or others
✔✔Idealization - ✔✔Exaggerated positive qualities to others
