MFT exam questions (terms) Questions
Wih Complete Solutions(Guaranteed
Success)
Spectatoring - correct answer...✔✔"From Masters & Johnson
- When sexual dysfunction results from preoccupation with your performance"
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule - correct answer...✔✔Every CORRECT response
is reinforced
Robber's Cave Study - correct answer...✔✔showed that two hostile groups could b
emade to get along well and even be friends if they had a superordinate goal to work
together for
Adler's biggest theory - correct answer...✔✔Influence of birth order on core personality
(first borns are most achievement-oriented)
Vaginismus - correct answer...✔✔female experiencing painful spasms during
intercourse
Cybernetics - correct answer...✔✔study of how systems are controlled and how
information feedback loops work
Double bind - correct answer...✔✔one person receives contradictory commands from
which there is no escape (MRI)
"Family Rules: Marital Quid Pro Quo" - correct answer...✔✔Jackson's paper on marital
relationships - roles that spouses develop don't just come from gender differences, but
as a result of a series of quid pro quos or mutual exchanges
Marital schism - correct answer...✔✔parents overly focused on their own problems,
undercut each other, compete for children's attention while failing to attend to children's
needs
Marital Skew - correct answer...✔✔"One parent dominates the family and the other is
dependent;
children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that dysfunction
or schizophrenia result"
Pseudomutuality - correct answer...✔✔"Lyman Wynne
Systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that masks conflict and blocks intimacy"
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,Pseudohostility - correct answer...✔✔"Lyman Wynne
Noisy and intense way of masking and distorting both affection and splits"
Rubber Fence Boundary - correct answer...✔✔"Lyman Wynne
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impenetrable to information from
the outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation"
Emotional Divorce - correct answer...✔✔"Murray Bowen
Parents whose relationship is cool and vacillates between overcloseness and over-
distance"
Differentiation of Self - correct answer...✔✔Autonomy from one's family and ability to
differentiate between one's thoughts and feelings
Multigenerational ethical accountability - correct answer...✔✔"Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
loyalty, trust, and relational ethics across generations"
Multidirectional Partiality - correct answer...✔✔Therapist is accountable to everyone
and solutions must be in the best interest of everyone
Who wrote "Families and Family Therapy" - correct answer...✔✔Salvador Minuchin
Integrative family therapy - correct answer...✔✔"Fred & Bunny Duhl, David Kantor
expressive, experiential, nonverbal
spacialization and family sculpting
Milan "Rituals" - correct answer...✔✔engaged family in behaviors that violated the
family rules
Positive Connotations - correct answer...✔✔"Milan group
Compliments to family members for devising the symptom to maintain homeostasis"
Invariant Prescription - correct answer...✔✔"Milan group
used to counteract the ""dirty game"" or power struggle between parents and child"
Self Focus - correct answer...✔✔Bowen's term for ability to see one's own role in
interpersonal processes
More-of-the-same solutions are promoted and maintained by - correct answer...✔✔
"Family Rules
MRI Brief Therapy"
Pre-Session Change - correct answer...✔✔"Solution-focused therapy
Changes client made between time he/she set up appointment and first session -
represents momentum"
AGRADESOLUTIONS
, Paradoxical Injunction - correct answer...✔✔"Strategic therapy technique
Directive to continue with maladaptive and symptomatic behavior - if follow, then
admitting they have control over the symptom; if rebels, they give up the maladaptive
behavior"
Cybernetics - definition, components - correct answer...✔✔"Refers to control
mechanisms that provide feedback to the primary system
Cybernetic systems consist of frameworks which function according to the laws of
recursiveness, feedback, and self-correction"
Boundary interface - correct answer...✔✔regions between each subsystem of the
family and between the family and its suprasystem
Properties of boundaries - correct answer...✔✔permeability, selectivity, and variability
Circular causality - correct answer...✔✔Circular or mutual causality in which two or
more people mutually influence one another in a recursive relationship
Entropy - correct answer...✔✔refers to a system's tendency to break down which, over
time, threatens the survival of the system
Negative entropy - correct answer...✔✔a systemic state that emerges when a system
is balanced between openness and closedness - information is allowed to enter the
system and change can occur when appropriate
Equifinality - correct answer...✔✔A system can reach a certain end state from a variety
of different sources, conditions, or means or from different initial states
Equipotentiality - correct answer...✔✔Different end states can occur from the same
initial conditions
Feedback loops - correct answer...✔✔"core of cybernetics
Self-correcting mechanisms by which families attempt to adjust deviations from the
established patterns and maintain its organizational integrity
Feedback occurs from outside the system while input occurs from inside the system"
Negative or "attenuating" feedback loops - correct answer...✔✔Maintain stability or
homeostasis (thermostat) - parents' behavior to keep children in line
Positive or "amplifying" feedback loops - correct answer...✔✔Attempt to change the
system from it's steady state to a new steady state or balance - reaction results in
increase of the behavior
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