AMFTRB MFT National Exam Practice Questions with Approved Answers |Latest 2024/2025

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Michelle will be entering a new high school this fall. The family spends
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some time animatedly describing recent events in their lives that they
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believe deepened Michelle's depression. The conversation begins to wind
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down. An Object Relations therapist would be most likely to
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details of their earlier histories
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Dr. J is seeing a family in which the husband and wife frequently argue
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in the bedroom. In fact, the two argue while preparing for bed almost
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every night. Dr. J does not ask the couple to attempt to stop their
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arguments, but directs them to only argue in the kitchen. If an argument
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starts in the bedroom, they have to move to the kitchen to compete it.
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Dr. J is using what technique?
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In addition, Dr J exaggerates the couple's arguments, calling the "battles"
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and relationship threatening. He relates to the family is fears that these "
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battles" are headed straight for the divorce court. Dr. J is most likely
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practicing from which theorist's model?__., Haley __., __., __., __.,__., __.,




Out of earshot of Dad, Mom points out one of his parenting inadequacies
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to the children. From a Contextual Family Therapy perspective, Mom's
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actions are evidence for split filial loyalty
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Bob (45) and Marianne (38) argue about what is the proper age for their
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daughter Jill (14) to begin dating. Jill hears the fighting and enters the
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room. Marianne draws Jill into the argument to side with her against Bob
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,. From a Bowen Systems perspective, what has occurred?
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Creation of a sufficient holding environment is a critical part of which the
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oretical approach? Object Relations
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Which theory believes that relative birth order is significant in determining
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specific characteristics?
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Bill (50) and Alexandria (43) present for therapy because their son Ralph (
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13) has developed school phobia. The phobia emerged after a trial separa
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tion between Bill and Alexandria. Bill moved back into the home when it
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became apparent that the only way to get Ralph to attend school was wi
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th both parents working together to help him. From Bozormenyi-
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Nagy's perspective, this is an example of
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Jonathan (47) and Samantha (46) present for help with their daughter Mic
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helle (12) who has a history of depression. The family has also recently
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The following therapist is most associated with multigenerational process o
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f psychopathology
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Introjection can only be detected by __., __., __., __., __., __.,__., __., trained therapists __.,




Anita (23) has had a conflictual relationship with her mother, Sarah (43) t
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hroughout her teens. She was rebellious and angry with her mother much
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of the time. Sarah is a single mother and very anxious about her daugh
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, ter, so much so that she frequently screamed and used inappropriate puni
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shments in an attempt to get her daughter to "behave". After Anita left
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home for college, she rarely wrote or called home and only visited on ho
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lidays. Now that she has graduated, she took a job several states away fr
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om her hometown and continues her pattern of not phoning or calling. A
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Bowenian therapist would say that Anita is engaged in
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In object relations theory, the latent meaning behind attitudes, behaviors,
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or feelings that is detected by therapists through analyzing personal reacti
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ons to session materials is knows as
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Sandy's parents divorced when she was 10 years old, and her mother we
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nt through a depression. Consequently, Sandy often was responsible for th
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e care of her 7 year old brother as well as seeing to family meals and
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other household chores. Her mother often confided in her about her feeli
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ngs and interacted with her more like an older sister than her mother. W
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hen Sandy became a young adult, her mother, who had recovered somew
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hat, was surprised to find how irresponsibly Sandy conducted her life and
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how angry she seemed. According to Bozormenyi-
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Nagy, Sandy's behavior is an example of
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The role of the therapist is Bowenian therapy is that of
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Mary's mother often calls her during the week to complain about the be
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havior of her father. Usually, Mary is highly sympathetic and supportive of
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her mother's complaints and becomes and remains angry at her father fo
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r sometime following the call. After attending therapy with a Bowenian th
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erapist, however, Mary responded to her mother's next complaining phone
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call with the following statement, That sounds like something really impor
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