MFT PRACTICE SET EXAM ACTUAL PAPER
2026 SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ According to Experiential Family Therapy, metaphor, play, and
humor are used to. Answer: focus on deeper existential problems to
increase insight and promote growth
◉ After eighteen therapy sessions with a family, here is a greater
distance in the father child relationship but enhanced closeness in
the marital relationship. The change would be referred to as a
change in family. Answer: Structure
◉ A couple comes to therapy reporting conflict and decreased
affection on the part of one of the partners. The therapist initially
decides to work on their communication pattern to help them
determine its effect on their feelings. The first step is to ask them to.
Answer: Calmly listen to each other because intensifying the
interaction may be contraindicated
◉ A primary use for family life cycle information is to. Answer: c.
direct families to a subsequent healthier stage
◉ A therapist is treating a couple in which conflict between an
emotional pursuer and an emotional distance is escalating toward
emotional cutoff. An effective intervention to prevent cutoff would
,be to:. Answer: coach the emotional pursuer to pull back from the
pursuit.
◉ When working with families where violence has occurred, it is
MOST IMPORTANT for the therapist to:. Answer: b. periodically ask
about recorrences
◉ When progress in therapy becomes stalled, an intergenerational
family therapist MOST LIKELY will. Answer: invite more family
members to express their emotions
◉ Therapy sessions have resolved the presenting problems between
parents and their teenager. The teenager wants to continue therapy,
but the parents have reservations. This lack of agreement indicates
that the. Answer: parents have developed a countertransference
◉ A therapist asking circular questions is attempting to assess.
Answer: -The ways individual members make sense of their
relational problems
◉ Therapists who are guided by second-order cybernetic theory
would be MOST INTERESTED in the:. Answer: potential first-order
changes that may occur as the result of problem-solving efforts
, ◉ The most accurate statement about conflict detouring within the
family is that this process:. Answer: reduces pressure on the
children, but places more stress upon the spouses.
◉ Which one of the following phenomena would a therapist observe
in a healthy couple?. Answer: The couple deals with sex and related
issues mostly through nonverbal communication.
◉ with Mrs. Thomas and her 10-year-old daughter, Lisa, the
therapist observes that they are stuck in an ongoing argument about
whether or not Lisa can spend a week at the beach with teenage
friends. Mrs. T.: "Lisa, I've said it before and t'll say it again: I still
think that you are too young to be in an unsupervised situation. It is
just too risky and I don't want my daughter doing this. Furthermore,
I am sick and tired of arguing." "Mom, you are absolutely in the dark
ages. All my friends are allowed to go; their mothers trust them, so
why can't you ever trust me?" Lisa: In order to intervene on the level
of PROCESS, the therapist should ask:. Answer: them to work out a
compromise to resolve the situation.
◉ The mother of a 17-year-old girl enters therapy while her
husband is away on military duty. Her husband has forbidd daughter
to date her boyfriend. However, the mother has allowed the
relationship to continue, provided that the dau- does not tell her
father. The therapist instructs the mother either to (a) contact her
husband and say she feels their c should date the boyfriend, or to (b)
tell her daughter that she is not allowed to date the boyfriend, thus
2026 SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ According to Experiential Family Therapy, metaphor, play, and
humor are used to. Answer: focus on deeper existential problems to
increase insight and promote growth
◉ After eighteen therapy sessions with a family, here is a greater
distance in the father child relationship but enhanced closeness in
the marital relationship. The change would be referred to as a
change in family. Answer: Structure
◉ A couple comes to therapy reporting conflict and decreased
affection on the part of one of the partners. The therapist initially
decides to work on their communication pattern to help them
determine its effect on their feelings. The first step is to ask them to.
Answer: Calmly listen to each other because intensifying the
interaction may be contraindicated
◉ A primary use for family life cycle information is to. Answer: c.
direct families to a subsequent healthier stage
◉ A therapist is treating a couple in which conflict between an
emotional pursuer and an emotional distance is escalating toward
emotional cutoff. An effective intervention to prevent cutoff would
,be to:. Answer: coach the emotional pursuer to pull back from the
pursuit.
◉ When working with families where violence has occurred, it is
MOST IMPORTANT for the therapist to:. Answer: b. periodically ask
about recorrences
◉ When progress in therapy becomes stalled, an intergenerational
family therapist MOST LIKELY will. Answer: invite more family
members to express their emotions
◉ Therapy sessions have resolved the presenting problems between
parents and their teenager. The teenager wants to continue therapy,
but the parents have reservations. This lack of agreement indicates
that the. Answer: parents have developed a countertransference
◉ A therapist asking circular questions is attempting to assess.
Answer: -The ways individual members make sense of their
relational problems
◉ Therapists who are guided by second-order cybernetic theory
would be MOST INTERESTED in the:. Answer: potential first-order
changes that may occur as the result of problem-solving efforts
, ◉ The most accurate statement about conflict detouring within the
family is that this process:. Answer: reduces pressure on the
children, but places more stress upon the spouses.
◉ Which one of the following phenomena would a therapist observe
in a healthy couple?. Answer: The couple deals with sex and related
issues mostly through nonverbal communication.
◉ with Mrs. Thomas and her 10-year-old daughter, Lisa, the
therapist observes that they are stuck in an ongoing argument about
whether or not Lisa can spend a week at the beach with teenage
friends. Mrs. T.: "Lisa, I've said it before and t'll say it again: I still
think that you are too young to be in an unsupervised situation. It is
just too risky and I don't want my daughter doing this. Furthermore,
I am sick and tired of arguing." "Mom, you are absolutely in the dark
ages. All my friends are allowed to go; their mothers trust them, so
why can't you ever trust me?" Lisa: In order to intervene on the level
of PROCESS, the therapist should ask:. Answer: them to work out a
compromise to resolve the situation.
◉ The mother of a 17-year-old girl enters therapy while her
husband is away on military duty. Her husband has forbidd daughter
to date her boyfriend. However, the mother has allowed the
relationship to continue, provided that the dau- does not tell her
father. The therapist instructs the mother either to (a) contact her
husband and say she feels their c should date the boyfriend, or to (b)
tell her daughter that she is not allowed to date the boyfriend, thus
