MFT EXAM : CHAPTER 1 HISTORY OF MFT
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY
WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY
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In 1974, who wrote the most popular book on family therapy ever written
entitled, Families and Family Therapy. - ANSWERS-Salvador Minuchin
In 1959, who founded the Boston Family Institute and developed an integrative
model of family therapy? - ANSWERS-Fred and Bunny Duhl and David Kantor. The
Duhls and Kantor combined techniques from several models and created
expressive, experiential, and nonverbal techniques.
Who developed the techniques: spacialization and family sculpting? - ANSWERS-
Fred and Bunny Duhl and David Kantor
Which European pioneers worked with couples and/or families in London? -
ANSWERS-- Henry Dicks: at the Tavistock Institute
- Robin Skynner: wrote about brief approach to family therapy
,Which European pioneer worked with families in Germany? - ANSWERS-Helm
Stierlin: Wrote on the ways in which adolescents were launched from their
families
Who started the family therapy movement in Italy by forming the Institute for
Family Studies in Milan? - ANSWERS-Mara Selvini Palazzoli
In what year was the Milan systemic therapy founded? - ANSWERS-1967
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the field of
psychology? - ANSWERS-Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model, moving towards
family therapy models? - ANSWERS-Clinicians discovered the powerful influence
of the family on treatment outcomes and identified problems that seemed more
likely to be resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed to the growth
of family therapy models? - ANSWERS-- clinical and research developments in
hospital psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
, Who founded psychoanalysis? - ANSWERS-Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? - ANSWERS-Freud's theory about the individual as he/she
negotiated the stages of psychosexual development. The theory focuses on
individuals but acknowledges the importance of the family.
Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone other than the
patient would contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into the causes of
schizophrenia during the 1950s? - ANSWERS-1) When the patients got better,
someone else in the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often deteriorated when they
returned home.
General Systems Theory - ANSWERS-Researchers were discovering that a whole
group has properties and characteristics that emerge from the group itself,
beyond those of its individual members. Once working with families, this concept
became equally applicable
Who initiated the Child Guidance Movement? - ANSWERS-Alfred Adler in the
early 1900s
Alfred Adler Concepts - ANSWERS-- Broadened the understanding of
psychological problems from a intrapsychic view to include the social context
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY
WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY
GRADED A+
In 1974, who wrote the most popular book on family therapy ever written
entitled, Families and Family Therapy. - ANSWERS-Salvador Minuchin
In 1959, who founded the Boston Family Institute and developed an integrative
model of family therapy? - ANSWERS-Fred and Bunny Duhl and David Kantor. The
Duhls and Kantor combined techniques from several models and created
expressive, experiential, and nonverbal techniques.
Who developed the techniques: spacialization and family sculpting? - ANSWERS-
Fred and Bunny Duhl and David Kantor
Which European pioneers worked with couples and/or families in London? -
ANSWERS-- Henry Dicks: at the Tavistock Institute
- Robin Skynner: wrote about brief approach to family therapy
,Which European pioneer worked with families in Germany? - ANSWERS-Helm
Stierlin: Wrote on the ways in which adolescents were launched from their
families
Who started the family therapy movement in Italy by forming the Institute for
Family Studies in Milan? - ANSWERS-Mara Selvini Palazzoli
In what year was the Milan systemic therapy founded? - ANSWERS-1967
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the field of
psychology? - ANSWERS-Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model, moving towards
family therapy models? - ANSWERS-Clinicians discovered the powerful influence
of the family on treatment outcomes and identified problems that seemed more
likely to be resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed to the growth
of family therapy models? - ANSWERS-- clinical and research developments in
hospital psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
, Who founded psychoanalysis? - ANSWERS-Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? - ANSWERS-Freud's theory about the individual as he/she
negotiated the stages of psychosexual development. The theory focuses on
individuals but acknowledges the importance of the family.
Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone other than the
patient would contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into the causes of
schizophrenia during the 1950s? - ANSWERS-1) When the patients got better,
someone else in the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often deteriorated when they
returned home.
General Systems Theory - ANSWERS-Researchers were discovering that a whole
group has properties and characteristics that emerge from the group itself,
beyond those of its individual members. Once working with families, this concept
became equally applicable
Who initiated the Child Guidance Movement? - ANSWERS-Alfred Adler in the
early 1900s
Alfred Adler Concepts - ANSWERS-- Broadened the understanding of
psychological problems from a intrapsychic view to include the social context
