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LCSW exam I

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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.
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