LCSW FINAL EXAM 2022 GRADED A+(UPDATED)
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Wheel of Change - ANSWER: Pre-contemplation, comtemplation,
determination/preparation, action, maintenance and relapse
Pre-contemplation - ANSWER: The Client has not contemplated having a problem.
Contemplation - ANSWER: The client considers change but rejects it.
Determination/Preparation - ANSWER: The client gives the therapist a window of
opportunity by saying, such things as "this is serious".
Action - ANSWER: Active steps to help Client change.
Maintenance - ANSWER: Helps the Client identify and use strategies to prevent
relapse.
Relapse - ANSWER: Help client renew the processes of contemplation, determination
and action without becoming stuck or demoralized because of people.
Intervention Skill - ANSWER: Social worker behavior that seeks to guide the helping
process but is independent of any theory. (e.g., empathy, respect, genuineness, self-
disclosure, confrontation, close-ended questions, summarizing, paraphrasing,
referral, interview skills, open-ended question, etc.)
Dysphoric Mood - ANSWER: Unpleasant mood, sadness, anxiety or irritability
Elevated Mood - ANSWER: Exaggerated feeling of well-being, or euphoria or elation
(high on top of the world)
Expansive Mood - ANSWER: Lack of restraint in expressing one's feelings with over
evaluation of significant.
Euphoric Mood - ANSWER: Intense elation with feelings of grandeur.
Anxious Mood - ANSWER: Vague diffuse apprehension that is associated with
feelings of uncertainty and helplessness
Depressed Mood - ANSWER: Feelings of sadness.
Reason for Outpatient Visit - ANSWER: The condition that is chiefly responsible for
the ambulatory care medical services received during the visit.
Deferred Diagnosis - ANSWER: Information inadequate to make any diagnostic
judgment about an Axis II diagnosis.
, Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) - ANSWER: It is impossible for the diagnostic
nomenclature to cover every possible situation due to diversity.
Provisional Diagnosis - ANSWER: Used when a strong presumption that the full
criteria will ultimately be met for a disorder but not enough information is available
to make a firm diagnosis.
Principal Diagnosis - ANSWER: The condition established after study to be chiefly
responsible for occasioning the admission (inpatient)
Lifetime Prevalence - ANSWER: The number of cases in a lifetime.
Period of Prevalence - ANSWER: The number of cases in certain time period.
Point of Prevalence - ANSWER: The number of cases at a particular time.
Incidence - ANSWER: Newly diagnosed mental illness at any given time.
Prevalence - ANSWER: Provided for different settings the total number of new and
existing cases in population.
Thomas & Chess Children Temperaments - ANSWER: Easy, difficult, and slow to
warm up.
Easy Temperament - ANSWER: Even tempered, regular sleep and eating habits,
adapt easy to new situation and people. Positive moods
Difficult Temperament - ANSWER: Irritable, withdraw from new situations and
people, unpredictable habits and negative moods.
Slow to warm up Temperament - ANSWER: Inactive, somewhat negative mood, take
time to adjust to new situations or people.
Ruminations - ANSWER: Mood-congruent ideas, mulled over repeatedly.
Ideas of Reference - ANSWER: The feeling that casual incidents and external events
have a particular and unusual meaning that is specific to the person.
Echopraxia - ANSWER: Repetition by imitation of the movement of another, the
action is not a wiled or voluntary one and has a semi-automatic and uncontrollable
quality.
Echolalia - ANSWER: The pathological, parrot-like and apparently senseless
repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person.
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Wheel of Change - ANSWER: Pre-contemplation, comtemplation,
determination/preparation, action, maintenance and relapse
Pre-contemplation - ANSWER: The Client has not contemplated having a problem.
Contemplation - ANSWER: The client considers change but rejects it.
Determination/Preparation - ANSWER: The client gives the therapist a window of
opportunity by saying, such things as "this is serious".
Action - ANSWER: Active steps to help Client change.
Maintenance - ANSWER: Helps the Client identify and use strategies to prevent
relapse.
Relapse - ANSWER: Help client renew the processes of contemplation, determination
and action without becoming stuck or demoralized because of people.
Intervention Skill - ANSWER: Social worker behavior that seeks to guide the helping
process but is independent of any theory. (e.g., empathy, respect, genuineness, self-
disclosure, confrontation, close-ended questions, summarizing, paraphrasing,
referral, interview skills, open-ended question, etc.)
Dysphoric Mood - ANSWER: Unpleasant mood, sadness, anxiety or irritability
Elevated Mood - ANSWER: Exaggerated feeling of well-being, or euphoria or elation
(high on top of the world)
Expansive Mood - ANSWER: Lack of restraint in expressing one's feelings with over
evaluation of significant.
Euphoric Mood - ANSWER: Intense elation with feelings of grandeur.
Anxious Mood - ANSWER: Vague diffuse apprehension that is associated with
feelings of uncertainty and helplessness
Depressed Mood - ANSWER: Feelings of sadness.
Reason for Outpatient Visit - ANSWER: The condition that is chiefly responsible for
the ambulatory care medical services received during the visit.
Deferred Diagnosis - ANSWER: Information inadequate to make any diagnostic
judgment about an Axis II diagnosis.
, Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) - ANSWER: It is impossible for the diagnostic
nomenclature to cover every possible situation due to diversity.
Provisional Diagnosis - ANSWER: Used when a strong presumption that the full
criteria will ultimately be met for a disorder but not enough information is available
to make a firm diagnosis.
Principal Diagnosis - ANSWER: The condition established after study to be chiefly
responsible for occasioning the admission (inpatient)
Lifetime Prevalence - ANSWER: The number of cases in a lifetime.
Period of Prevalence - ANSWER: The number of cases in certain time period.
Point of Prevalence - ANSWER: The number of cases at a particular time.
Incidence - ANSWER: Newly diagnosed mental illness at any given time.
Prevalence - ANSWER: Provided for different settings the total number of new and
existing cases in population.
Thomas & Chess Children Temperaments - ANSWER: Easy, difficult, and slow to
warm up.
Easy Temperament - ANSWER: Even tempered, regular sleep and eating habits,
adapt easy to new situation and people. Positive moods
Difficult Temperament - ANSWER: Irritable, withdraw from new situations and
people, unpredictable habits and negative moods.
Slow to warm up Temperament - ANSWER: Inactive, somewhat negative mood, take
time to adjust to new situations or people.
Ruminations - ANSWER: Mood-congruent ideas, mulled over repeatedly.
Ideas of Reference - ANSWER: The feeling that casual incidents and external events
have a particular and unusual meaning that is specific to the person.
Echopraxia - ANSWER: Repetition by imitation of the movement of another, the
action is not a wiled or voluntary one and has a semi-automatic and uncontrollable
quality.
Echolalia - ANSWER: The pathological, parrot-like and apparently senseless
repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person.
