MFT LICENSURE ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Battle for initiative. Answer: who has the most investment and
initiative to change. Should be won by the client.
◉ Experiential family therapy. Answer: works from the inside out
strengthening families by encouraging individual self expression
◉ Stages of Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Information
gathering
Increase affective intensity and anxiety to uncover problem
Clarify communication and increase expressiveness
Therapist pushes for expansion of self for family members
Include as many family members and generations as possible.
◉ Satir Stages of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Making contact, Chaos,
Integration, Termination occurs when goals are met
◉ Commitment to emotional well-being as opposed to problem solving.
Answer: A major concept of Experiential Family Therapy
,◉ Theory of Change. Answer: Family desperation is a sign of readiness
for change, Immediate shared experience produces new responses which
produce both individual and family growth,
Increasing the family's creativity, spontaneity and ability to play
◉ Theory of Dysfunction. Answer: Scapegoat provides anxiety relief for
the family, Lack of tolerance for difference,
Symptoms are nonverbal messages in reaction to the dysfunction
communication working in the system
◉ Role of the Therapist. Answer: Honest, Safe, Interpret & Reinterpret
◉ Techniques of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Existential encounter
Role Playing
Family Sculpting
Family Drawing
Spontaneity
◉ Existential Encounter. Answer: Therapist share insides so client is
lead to share insides
◉ Leaders of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Carl Whitaker, Virginia
Satir
, ◉ Honest Emotion. Answer: people are allowed to follow their own
instinct
◉ Family Myths. Answer: A set of beliefs on a distortion of historical
reality and shared by all family members that help shape the rules of
governing family functioning
◉ Experiential belief cause of all problems. Answer: Emotional
Supression
◉ Focus of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Emotional Process
◉ Five Stances in Experiential Therapy. Answer: Placater, Blamer,
Computer, Distractor and Congruent Communicator
◉ Placater Stance. Answer: acts weak, apologizes, tries to please
◉ Blamer Stance. Answer: dominates, doesn't accept responsibility,
finds fault with others
◉ Computer Stance. Answer: adopts a rigid stance, detached, calm cool,
maintains an intellectual control
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Battle for initiative. Answer: who has the most investment and
initiative to change. Should be won by the client.
◉ Experiential family therapy. Answer: works from the inside out
strengthening families by encouraging individual self expression
◉ Stages of Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Information
gathering
Increase affective intensity and anxiety to uncover problem
Clarify communication and increase expressiveness
Therapist pushes for expansion of self for family members
Include as many family members and generations as possible.
◉ Satir Stages of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Making contact, Chaos,
Integration, Termination occurs when goals are met
◉ Commitment to emotional well-being as opposed to problem solving.
Answer: A major concept of Experiential Family Therapy
,◉ Theory of Change. Answer: Family desperation is a sign of readiness
for change, Immediate shared experience produces new responses which
produce both individual and family growth,
Increasing the family's creativity, spontaneity and ability to play
◉ Theory of Dysfunction. Answer: Scapegoat provides anxiety relief for
the family, Lack of tolerance for difference,
Symptoms are nonverbal messages in reaction to the dysfunction
communication working in the system
◉ Role of the Therapist. Answer: Honest, Safe, Interpret & Reinterpret
◉ Techniques of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Existential encounter
Role Playing
Family Sculpting
Family Drawing
Spontaneity
◉ Existential Encounter. Answer: Therapist share insides so client is
lead to share insides
◉ Leaders of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Carl Whitaker, Virginia
Satir
, ◉ Honest Emotion. Answer: people are allowed to follow their own
instinct
◉ Family Myths. Answer: A set of beliefs on a distortion of historical
reality and shared by all family members that help shape the rules of
governing family functioning
◉ Experiential belief cause of all problems. Answer: Emotional
Supression
◉ Focus of Experiential Therapy. Answer: Emotional Process
◉ Five Stances in Experiential Therapy. Answer: Placater, Blamer,
Computer, Distractor and Congruent Communicator
◉ Placater Stance. Answer: acts weak, apologizes, tries to please
◉ Blamer Stance. Answer: dominates, doesn't accept responsibility,
finds fault with others
◉ Computer Stance. Answer: adopts a rigid stance, detached, calm cool,
maintains an intellectual control
