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Robyn's MFT Exam – Questions & Correct SolutionsSystemic therapists assume ________________ stance toward all members of a
family.
a. a disengaged
b. a nonblaming
c. a pathologizing
d. an engaged ✔️Ans -b. a nonblaming
The idea that families have a tendency to maintain a specific range of
behaviors and norms is referred to as __________.
a. homeostasis
b. enmeshment
c. self-correction
d. boundaries ✔️Ans -a. homeostasis
Which technique helps to assess and bring to light particular dynamics and
interactive patterns in the system, without requiring the therapist to
actually verbally reframe the problem?
a. reflection of feelings
b. circular questions
c. re-enactment
d. directive questions ✔️Ans -b. circular questions
"Who is most angry when Dad drives home drunk?" and "Who seems the
least bothered by this behavior?" are examples of __________.
a. circular questions
b. before-and-after questions
c. comparing and ranking questions
d. labeling ✔️Ans -c. comparing and ranking questions
What term is defined by events that exemplify the clients preferred
outcome rather than his/her problem-saturated stories?
,A. Sparkling moments
B. Shaping externalizations
C. Shaping competence
D. Spectatoring ✔️Ans -A. Sparkling moments
Feminist family therapists are critical of the cybernetic concept of circular
causality in male-female relationships because of the implication of:
A. family dysfunction
B. none of these; they support all of these concepts
C. flawed family structures
D. equal power and control ✔️Ans -D. equal power and control
A Collaborative therapist would:
A. maintain input from all members of the system, including him/herself
and mutually determine if therapy should end
B. say they have not had appropriate time to rewrite the story
C. ask the family to rate on a scale of 1-10 how they came to feel the
problem is now compared to when they came in
D. accept termination as an indication that the family's perception of the
problem had changed ✔️Ans -A. maintain input from all
members of the system, including him/herself and mutually determine if
therapy should end
________ identify a problem and want to take action toward the solution.
A. Clients
B. Customers
C. Complainants
D. Visitors ✔️Ans -B. Customers
Feminists have faulted other family therapist models as:
A. devaluing mother-child nurturance
B. being primarily based on male development
C. all of these
D. favoring masculine values ✔️Ans -C. all of these
,A family comes in for treatment and focuses on the person with the
problem despite the therapist's attempts to separate the problem from the
identified patient. Narrative therapists would call this form of tunnel
vision:
A. vicious-cycle stories
B. circular stories
C. problem-saturated stories
D. self-correcting stories ✔️Ans -C. problem-saturated stories
Solution-based therapists listen for ________ and examples of what works
when clients are talking.
A. miracles
B. symptoms
C. problems
D. exceptions ✔️Ans -D. exceptions
________ is the story in which the problem plays the leading role and the
client plays a secondary role, generally that of the victim.
A. externalization
B. sparkling moment
C. problem saturated story
D. unique outcome ✔️Ans -C. problem saturated story
One of the methods used by LoPiccolo when treating an inorgasmic
dysfunction is:
A. sensate focus
B. directed masturbation training
C. spectatoring
D. systematic desensitization ✔️Ans -B. directed masturbation
training
Behavioral sex therapy with a couple would end when:
A. Couple feels more comfortable together
B. Therapist feels clients' goals are completed
, C. When client feels ready and prepared with effective tools
D. the clients' goals are completed ✔️Ans -D. the clients' goals
are completed
When working with couples, Satir was NOT interested in:
A. a change in his/her way of manifesting thoughts and feelings
B. a change in or removal of the presenting problem
C. a change in his/her way of reacting to the stimulus and feedback of
others
D. a change in his/her perception of him/herself and of others, which has
both cognitive and affective parts ✔️Ans -B. a change in or
removal of the presenting problem
"Normal families have an evolutionary sense of time with emphasis on the
process of becoming." This statement regarding normal family functioning
is descriptive of which model of family therapy?
A. structural
B. experiential
C. psychodynamic
D. strategic ✔️Ans -B. experiential
When working with a client, an Internal Family Systems therapist must be
careful to avoid which of the following:
A. therapist assumes he/she is talking to the person's Self and is really
talking to a part
B. working with an exile before the system is ready
C. all of these
D. therapist thinks Self is doing the work, but it's really a part
✔️Ans -C. all of these
A family therapist has in-session goals to accentuate the client's expression
of attachment needs. Such emotional expression might be termed:
A. Primary emotions
B. Battle for Initiative
C. Secondary emotions
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