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MFT National Exam – Questions And Answers
MFT National Exam – Questions And Answers
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MFT National Exam – Questions And AnswersMRI Primary Contributors ✔️Ans - Bateson, Jackson, Satir, Haley,
Weakland, Watzlawick
MRI Therapy Structure ✔️Ans - 1. Intro to treatment setup. 2. Inquiry
and definition of problem. 3. Estimation of the solution (pos. feedback)
maintaining. 4. Setting goals for treatment. 5. Selecting and making
behavioral or strategic interventions.
6. Termination
MRI Out-of-Session Directive ✔️Ans - Instructing the clients to engage
in behavioral change outside of the session as opposed to in session.
MRI Prescribing the Symptom ✔️Ans - Paradoxical intervention where
one instructs the client to intentionally engage in the behavior they wish to
change. Client may rebel and experience desired change or comply and
realize they have control.
MRI Restraining the Progress of Change ✔️Ans - Paradoxical
intervention where clients come into session and report that they are
experiencing change so therapist encourages them to slow down and be
cautious about changing too fast.
MRI Positioning ✔️Ans - Paradoxical intervention of pushing a family
member further into the absurdity of their initial position, thereby making
them realize their own absurdity.
MRI Paradoxical Intervention ✔️Ans - Used to address that families are
naturally resistant to change. Involves instructing fam not to change or to
change in ways that contradict their desired change.
MRI Treatment Duration ✔️Ans - Limited to 10 sessions, less if
problem is solved.
MRI Therapy Goals ✔️Ans - Resolve current problem, provide
symptoms relief and create second-order change.
,MRI Diagnosing ✔️Ans - Non-pathologizing and systemic.
MRI Assessment ✔️Ans - Get description of problem. Understand the
problem, then therapist identifies the behavioral patterns that maintain
that pattern.
MRI Symmetrical Relationship ✔️Ans - Based on equality, behavior of
one mirrors that of the other.
MRI Complementary Relationship ✔️Ans - Based on differences that fit
together.
MRI Metacommunication ✔️Ans - Communicating about
communicating. Essentially refers to non-verbals going on in the room that
have an impact on what is being said verbally.
MRI Report and Command Functions ✔️Ans - Every communication
has 2 components:
Report- Content of the message.
Command- A message about the relationship.
MRI More of the Same ✔️Ans - Problem when families fail to
appropriately respond to normal life circumstances, families will do more
of the failed solution as opposed to trying a different solution.
MRI Problem as Attempted Solution ✔️Ans - The problem is not the
problem, the attempted solutions to fix the problem reinforces the
interactional behavioral sequence.
MRI First-Order Change ✔️Ans - Changes in family patterns that occur
at the behavioral level.
MRI Second-Order Change ✔️Ans - Changes in family patterns of
interaction that occurs at the level of beliefs or rules.
Object-Relations Diagnosing ✔️Ans - Non-pathologizing.
, Object-Relations Therapy Goals ✔️Ans - Develop insight and work
through unresolved conflict. Eventually, individuals develop healthy egos
and begin to relate to others maturely without projection.
Object-Relations Therapy Structure ✔️Ans - 1. Assess early childhood
experiences and current and past relationships. Explore current
relationship style.
2. Foster insight and begin working through.
3. Individual begins to experiment with developing new behaviors and
ways to interact. Fosters later experiences that can re-shape internalized
objects.
Object-Relations Assessment ✔️Ans - Non-Structured. Explores:
-Early childhood experiences and the clients' interpretations of them.
-Past and present relationship with caregivers.
-Current relationship style and where they are struggling with healthy
relationships.
Object-Relations Introject ✔️Ans - Internalized objects become
introjects, and are split into being either all-good or all-bad.
Object-Relations Countertransference ✔️Ans - The therapist's tendency
to attribute qualities that reflect unresolved grievances from a previous
relationship onto a client.
Object-Relations Transference ✔️Ans - Tendency of individuals to
attribute qualities to other individuals that reflect unresolved grievances
from a previous relationship.
Object-Relations Interpretation ✔️Ans - Therapist's hypothesis about
the influence of the client's past experiences on their current behaviors and
struggles.
Object-Relations Working Through ✔️Ans - After insight is achieved,
working through process entails translating insight into more desirable
and constructive ways of being.
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