CA MFT EXAM THEORIES AND TERMS
Narrative - ANSWER Identify unique outcomes
OR/P - ANSWER Insight oriented
Narrative - ANSWER Enlist a witness
Strategic - ANSWER Paradoxical interventions
Gestalt - ANSWER Exploring experience by description
Reality Therapy - ANSWER Identifying and meeting needs
CBT - ANSWER Finding alternatives
Strategic - ANSWER Restraining
Existential - ANSWER Telling, talking about, and naming emotional pain
Reality Therapy - ANSWER Focus on present choices
S/C - ANSWER Family Life Chronology
Existential - ANSWER Honoring the pain
, Structural - ANSWER Enactment
Bowen - ANSWER Differentiation
Reality Therapy - ANSWER Everyone has four needs: love/belonging,
power/achievement, freedom, and
fun/relaxation
Strategic - ANSWER Ordeals
Bowen - ANSWER Reduce anxiety and emotional turmoil in family system
Gestalt - ANSWER Uses experiments
SF - ANSWER Coping Questions
Adler - ANSWER Early Recollection
Adler - ANSWER Family Constellation
Adler - ANSWER Lifestyle Assessment
Narrative - ANSWER Understand problems effects
CBT - ANSWER Three-column technique
Narrative - ANSWER Identify unique outcomes
OR/P - ANSWER Insight oriented
Narrative - ANSWER Enlist a witness
Strategic - ANSWER Paradoxical interventions
Gestalt - ANSWER Exploring experience by description
Reality Therapy - ANSWER Identifying and meeting needs
CBT - ANSWER Finding alternatives
Strategic - ANSWER Restraining
Existential - ANSWER Telling, talking about, and naming emotional pain
Reality Therapy - ANSWER Focus on present choices
S/C - ANSWER Family Life Chronology
Existential - ANSWER Honoring the pain
, Structural - ANSWER Enactment
Bowen - ANSWER Differentiation
Reality Therapy - ANSWER Everyone has four needs: love/belonging,
power/achievement, freedom, and
fun/relaxation
Strategic - ANSWER Ordeals
Bowen - ANSWER Reduce anxiety and emotional turmoil in family system
Gestalt - ANSWER Uses experiments
SF - ANSWER Coping Questions
Adler - ANSWER Early Recollection
Adler - ANSWER Family Constellation
Adler - ANSWER Lifestyle Assessment
Narrative - ANSWER Understand problems effects
CBT - ANSWER Three-column technique