MFT National Exam Study Guide Questions And Answers All Verified By An Expert A+ Graded
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Course
Marital And Family Therapy
Institution
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Who is the founder of Bowenian therapy? - ANS Murray Bowen & James Framo (follower, although some argue he is more object-relations, he feels he is transgenerational)
Which theory focuses on ledgers and balances? - ANS Contextual therapy
Who created the rubber fence theory? - ANS Wynn
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MFT National Exam Study Guide
Questions And Answers All
Verified By An Expert A+ Graded
,Who is the founder of Bowenian therapy? - ANS Murray Bowen & James Framo
(follower, although some argue he is more object-relations, he feels he is
transgenerational)
Which theory focuses on ledgers and balances? - ANS Contextual therapy
Who created the rubber fence theory? - ANS Wynn
Who created the term garage mechanic? - ANS Carl Whitaker
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What is the emphasis in Bowenian therapy? - ANS Differentiation of self
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What is Bowen's differentiation of self defined? - ANS refers to the autonomy of
function which results in being less reactive to family systems dynamics and other
members emotional states; the extent to which they have learned to manage
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emotionality.
what is the core problem in Bowenian theory? - ANS triangles and emotional reactivity
what are Bowenian's key techniques? - ANS genogram and process questions
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who are the founders of experiential therapy? - ANS Virginia Satir & Carl Whitaker
What is the emphasis in experiential therapy? - ANS authenticity and self-actualization
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what is the core problem in experiential therapy? - ANS emotional suppression and
mystification
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what are key techniques used in experiential therapy? - ANS confrontation and
structured exercises
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who are the founders of solution-focused therapy? - ANS Steve de Shazer and Insoo
Kim Berg
What is the emphasis in solution-focused therapy? - ANS language creates reality
What is the core problem in solution-focused therapy? - ANS problem talk
what are key techniques used in solution-focused therapy? - ANS focusing on
solutions and identifying exceptions
,who are the founders of strategic therapy? - ANS Don Jackson and Jay Haley
What is the emphasis in strategic therapy? - ANS homeostasis and feedback loops
what is the core problem in strategic therapy? - ANS more-of-the-same solutions
what are key techniques used in strategic therapy? - ANS reframing directives
who are the founders of psychodynamic therapy? - ANS Nathan Ackerman, Henry
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Dicks, and Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
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What is the emphasis in psychodynamic therapy? - ANS drives
self objects
internal objects
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what are the core problems in psychodynamic therapy? - ANS conflict
projective identification
fixation and regression
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what are the key techniques used in psychodynamic therapy? - ANS silence and
interpretation
who are the founders of narrative therapy? - ANS Michael White & David Epston
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what is the emphasis in narrative therapy? - ANS Narrative theory & social
constructionism
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what is the core problem in narrative therapy? - ANS problem-saturated stories
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What are key techniques used in narrative therapy? - ANS externalization, identifying
unique outcomes, & creating audiences of support
who are the founders of structural therapy? - ANS Salvador Minuchin
what is the emphasis in structural therapy? - ANS subsystems and boundaries
what is the core problem in structural therapy? - ANS enmeshment and
disengagement
, what are key techniques used in structural therapy? - ANS enactments and boundary
making
who are the founders of cognitive behavioral therapy? - ANS Gerald Patterson, Robert
Liberman, and Richard Stuart
what is the emphasis in cognitive behavioral therapy? - ANS reinforcement, extinction,
and schemas
what is the core problem in cognitive behavioral therapy? - ANS inadvertent
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reinforcement and aversive control
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what are key techniques used in cognitive behavioral therapy? - ANS functional
analysis and teaching positive control
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what theory emphasizes negative-feedback loops or cycles? - ANS Structural
what theory emphasizes positive-feedback cycles? - ANS strategic
what theory emphasizes the importance of structure in dysfunction? - ANS structural
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what theory emphasizes the importance of maladaptive behavioral sequences in
dysfunction? - ANS strategic
what theory is straight-forward and confrontive? - ANS structural
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what theory is indirect and nonconfrontive? - ANS strategic
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in what theory does the therapist generally work with the whole family? - ANS
structural
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in what theory does the therapist often work with only 1 or 2 members of a family
system? - ANS strategic
what theory focuses on immediate in-session behaviors? - ANS structural
what theory retrospectively focuses on out-of-session behavioral sequences? - ANS
strategic
what theory focuses on behavioral sequences? - ANS strategic
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