MFT LICENSURE EXAM SCRIPT 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Emerged from the humanistic
branch of psychology
◉ Names associated with Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: David
Keith, Augustus Napier, Walter Kempler and Les Greenburg
◉ Associated with MRI. Answer: Don Jackson
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Focuses on the "here and now
experience"
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Focuses on the emotional
experience, emphasizes individuals and their emotions
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Therapy that began with
Whitaker and Satir
,◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Updated with Johnson's EFT
and Schwartz's IFS
◉ Carl Whitaker. Answer: Developer who was a former OBGYN and
psychiatrist.
◉ Virginia Satir. Answer: Developers associated with MRI from 1959-
66. Highly nurturing, empathic and genuine. Reject by male dominated
model developers.
◉ Carl Whitaker. Answer: Had initiative approach; amount first to
conduct therapy with families. Not bound by social convention.
◉ Virginia Satir. Answer: Developer who used touch and sculpting.
Stressed importance of good communication.
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Said family difficulties are
caused by emotional suppression.
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Said dysfunctional families are
not tolerant of emotions, resulting in children growing up estranged from
themselves.
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Grew out of existential
psychology
, ◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Emphasized freedom and the
immediacy of experiences. Where individual experience is valued over
family structure
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Said the needs of the family
"follow on the heels of individual enhancement."
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Says a normal families are
secure and honest about feelings.
◉ Blaming
Placating
Being irrelevant
Being ultra reasonable. Answer: Four types of destructive
communication patterns in Experiential Family Therapy
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Where therapists act as agents
of provocateurs
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Where goal of therapy is to,
increase personal integrity, liberate the affect and impulses of family
members, revitalize family relationships, and bring family together
emotionally
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Emerged from the humanistic
branch of psychology
◉ Names associated with Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: David
Keith, Augustus Napier, Walter Kempler and Les Greenburg
◉ Associated with MRI. Answer: Don Jackson
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Focuses on the "here and now
experience"
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Focuses on the emotional
experience, emphasizes individuals and their emotions
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Therapy that began with
Whitaker and Satir
,◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Updated with Johnson's EFT
and Schwartz's IFS
◉ Carl Whitaker. Answer: Developer who was a former OBGYN and
psychiatrist.
◉ Virginia Satir. Answer: Developers associated with MRI from 1959-
66. Highly nurturing, empathic and genuine. Reject by male dominated
model developers.
◉ Carl Whitaker. Answer: Had initiative approach; amount first to
conduct therapy with families. Not bound by social convention.
◉ Virginia Satir. Answer: Developer who used touch and sculpting.
Stressed importance of good communication.
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Said family difficulties are
caused by emotional suppression.
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Said dysfunctional families are
not tolerant of emotions, resulting in children growing up estranged from
themselves.
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Grew out of existential
psychology
, ◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Emphasized freedom and the
immediacy of experiences. Where individual experience is valued over
family structure
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Said the needs of the family
"follow on the heels of individual enhancement."
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Says a normal families are
secure and honest about feelings.
◉ Blaming
Placating
Being irrelevant
Being ultra reasonable. Answer: Four types of destructive
communication patterns in Experiential Family Therapy
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Where therapists act as agents
of provocateurs
◉ Experiential Family Therapy. Answer: Where goal of therapy is to,
increase personal integrity, liberate the affect and impulses of family
members, revitalize family relationships, and bring family together
emotionally
