LCSW Exam I Questions With Correct Answers

Asperger's disorder - Answer 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 - Answer ADHD, conduct disorder and oppositional deiant disorder ADHD - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer eating of nutrious substances Rumination disorder - Answer repeated regurgitaiton, rechewing of food without apparent nausea or disgust Feeding disorder of infancy or early child hood - Answer 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 - Answer haloperidol. Chronic motor vocla tick - Answer single or multiple motor or vocal tics but not by both. Separation anxiety disorder - Answer inappropriate, excessive anxiety related to separation from home or attachment figures. Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early child hood - Answer disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness in most settings that begins prior to the age of five. Delirium - Answer 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 - Answer an environment that is designed to minimize disorientation. (quiet room with appropriate lighting). Drug treatments for delirium: - Answer Antipsychotics such as haloperidol Dementia - Answer 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 - Answer deterioration in language functioning agnosia - Answer inability to recognize and identify familiar objects and people. Delirium and dementia - Answer 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.