MFT National Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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MFT National Exam Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Detriangulation - Answer-Bowen: The process by which an individual removes self from emotional
field of two others
Formulation - Answer-A therapeutic hypothesis about what is responsible for creating and
maintaining a client's presenting pr...
Emotional fusion - 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 - 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 - Answer✔✔-Bowen Family Systems Therapy
Philip Guerin - Answer✔✔-Student of Murray Bowen
Circular causality - Answer✔✔-Systems theory and Strategic: idea that events are related through a
series of interacting loops or repeating cycles
Circular questioning - 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 - Answer✔✔-Systems theory and Strategic: study of relationships in terms of
the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages
Cybernetics - Answer✔✔-Systems theory and Strategic: study of control processes in systems, especially
analysis of the flow of information in closed systems
Directives - Answer✔✔-Strategic: homework assignments designed to help families interrupt
homeostatic patterns of problem-maintaining behavior
Double bind - 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
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