MFT Practice Exam Questions Exam
Ethics with complete solutions 2024/2025
Experiential Therapists - ANSWER- Would exhibit empathy and facilitate
expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
Parent Child Relational Problem - ANSWER- Given when the focus of attention is
a pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication
and the behavior impair family functioning.
Undifferentiated family ego mass - ANSWER- Bowenian Term referring to intense
interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
Splitting - ANSWER- Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable feelings
by disowning them
Projective Identification - ANSWER- process of projecting one's disowned parts
onto others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act out or assume those
disowned parts
The active phase of Schizophrenia - ANSWER- two or more of the following:
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic
behaviors, negative symptoms)
Euphoria Stage - ANSWER- Initial Stage of acculturation process during which
the family is in a state of excitement about being in the new culture.
Rumination Disorder - ANSWER- A condition in which a child repeatedly chews,
swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over again.
Object Relations Termination Criteria - ANSWER- resolution of internal conflicts
and resistances
, Cognitive restructuring - ANSWER- a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more balanced thoughts
Empty Chair Technique - ANSWER- Having client's talk to different parts of
themselves (or to introject others)
Core solution focused technique - ANSWER- helping the couple/family determine
what is working so as to encourage them to do more of it
Mapping the problem - ANSWER- narrative therapy intervention
Soltuion Focused therapists focus - ANSWER- client's strengths and on
"solutions" or new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
Antisocial Personality Disorder - ANSWER- characterized by aggressive, violent
and unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal norms
Schizotypical Personality Disorder - ANSWER- Includes cognitive or perceptual
distortions and eccentric behavior
Avoidant Personality Disorder - ANSWER- self imposed social isolation, typically
desire close relationships and are distressed by their lack of social connections,
but isolate themselves out of fear of rejection or criticism
Schizoid Personality Disorder - ANSWER- Characterized by an absence of desire
for close relationships, showing flattened affect and indifference to praise or
criticism.
Family mapping - ANSWER- A structural family system of diagramming that
depicts family patterns and structure to examine family dynamics
Genogram - ANSWER- Bowenian relationship diagrams depicting historical
information fating back three generations
Family Life Chronology - ANSWER- Satir- Charts historical and family-of-origin
relationships
Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia - ANSWER- physiological arousal in response
to being in situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
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