MFT National Exam Questions And Answers 100%Verified Already Passed!!!
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Marital and Family Therapy
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Marital And Family Therapy
MFT National Exam Questions And Answers 100%Verified Already Passed!!!
Detriangulation - correct answer...Bowen: The process by which an individual removes self from emotional field of two others
Formulation - correct answer...A therapeutic hypothesis about what is responsible for creating an...
MFT National Exam Questions And
Answers 100%Verified Already Passed!!!
Detriangulation - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: The process by which an individual
removes self from emotional field of two others
Formulation - correct answer...✔✔A therapeutic hypothesis about what is responsible
for creating and maintaining a client's presenting problem
Process - correct answer...✔✔How members of a family or group relate; in contrast to
content, which is what they talk about
Treatment contract - correct answer...✔✔An explicit agreement between the client and
therapist that specifies the terms of therapy, including things such as frequency and
length of sessions, who is to attend, and fees
Differentiation of self - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Psychological seperation of intellect
and emotions and independence of self from others; opposite of fusion; major goal of
therapy
Emotional cutoff - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: term for flight from an unresolved
emotional attachment
Family life cycle - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Bowen: stages of fam life
from separation from parents to marriage, children, growing older, retirement, to death
Family of origin - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: a person's parents and siblings: usually
refers to the original nuclear family of an adult
Fusion - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Blurring of psychological boundaries between self
and others and a contamination of emotional and intellectual functioning; oppositive of
differentiation
Genogram - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Schematic diagram of family system; major
technique
I-position - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Statement acknowleding one's personal
opinions rather than blaming others or moralizing; both clients and therapist can use
Multigenerational transmission process - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: projection of
varying degrees of immaturity to different children in the same family; the child who is
most involved in the family emotional process emerges with the lowest level of
differentiation and passes problems on to succeeding generations
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,Process questions - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Designed to help family members
think about their own reactions to what others are doing; major therapy technique
Relationships experiments - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Suggestions for trying new
ways of responding to family stresses, designed more to help family members
understand how emotional processes work than to solve problems; major therapy
technique
Triangle - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: a 3 person system; the smallest stable unit of
human relations; technique of therapy is to neutralize this
Triangulation - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: Detouring conflict between two people by
involving a third person, stabilzing the relationship between the original pair, but freezes
conflict in place
Undifferentiated family ego mass - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: early term for emotional
"stuck-togetherness" or fusion in the family, especially prominent in schizophrenic
families
Emotional fusion - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: often the major problem in families;
grows out of an instinctual need for others but is an unhealthy distortion of the need,
based on anxious attachment
Coaching - correct answer...✔✔Bowen: therapist hopes to avoid taking over for clients
or becoming embroiled in family triangles; asking questions designed to help people
figure out family emotional processes and their role in them
Murray Bowen - correct answer...✔✔Bowen Family Systems Therapy
Philip Guerin - correct answer...✔✔Student of Murray Bowen
Circular causality - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: idea that events
are related through a series of interacting loops or repeating cycles
Circular questioning - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: method of
interviewing developed by the Milan Associates in which questions are asked that
highlight differences among family members
Communications theory - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: study of
relationships in terms of the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages
Cybernetics - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: study of control
processes in systems, especially analysis of the flow of information in closed systems
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, Directives - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: homework assignments designed to help
families interrupt homeostatic patterns of problem-maintaining behavior
Double bind - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: a conflict created when a person receives
contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship
and cannot leave or comment; Milton Erickson's technique of prescribing resistance
Family homeostasis - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: tendency of families to resist
change to maintain a steady state
Family ritual - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: technique used by Milan Associates that
prescribes a set of actions designed to change a family system's rules
Family rules - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: Descriptive term for redundant behavioral
patterns
Feedback loops - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: return of a portion
of the output of a system, especially when used to maintain the output within
predetermined limits (negative feedback) or to signal a need to modify the system
(positive feedback)
First order change - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: superficial
change in a system that stays invariant; mild adjustments in systems but system
basically stays the same
Function of symptoms - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: Idea that
symptoms are often ways to distract or protect family members from threatening
conflicts
General systems theory - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: biological model of living
systems a whole entities that maintain themselves through continuous input and output
from the environment; developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Hierarchical structure - correct answer...✔✔Strategic and Structural: Family functioning
based on clear generational boundaries, whereby the parents maintain control and
authority
Identified patient - correct answer...✔✔Systems theory and Strategic: the symptom
bearer or official patient
Invariant prescription - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: technique developed by Mara
Selvini Palazzoli in which parents are directed to mysteriously sneak away together
Meta communication - correct answer...✔✔Strategic: every message has two levels,
report and command; the implied command or qualifying message
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