LMFT EXAM 2 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Adlerian psychology (Individual Psychology) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Inferiority,
social context.
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Adler
Difficulties stem from innate feelings of inferiority or false view of self.
Including social context
Child guidance movement
Style of life > Social interest
Collaborative therapeutic relationship built on trust.
Optimism to promote change.
Bowenian family therapy (Integenerational therapy) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Differentiation, fusion, decrease anxiety, genograms, triangulation. Assume
responsibility for own problems.
___________________
Problems develop thorough a lack of differentiation and fusion (lower the level, higher the
anxiety)
Triangulation
Differentiation of self (scale)
Family projection process
Multigenerational transmission process
Nuclear Family Emotional Process/undifferentiated family mass ego
Emotional cutoff
,Sibling positioning
Attachment theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Bowlby & Ainsworth
Trust cultivates autonomy and confidence
Safe haven
Secure base
Secure attachment: stressed/soothed
Avoidant attachment: not distressed/avoid
Disorganized attachment: stressed/resist
Ambivalent attachment: distressed/ambivalent
Discriminate attachment at 7-11 months
Behavioral Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Reinforcement/Punishment.
_____________
Skinner & Watson
Behaviors are learned responses involuntarily acquired and reinforced.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment ex. Spanking
Negative punishment ex. Taking toys away
Token Economy
Shaping
,Cognitive behavioral therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Thoughts, feelings and
behaviors. / Change pattern of thinking. / Collaborative.
_____________
Beck & Ellis
Examines the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Problem focused; goal
oriented
Therapist may use socratic questioning to explore a client's maladaptive thoughts or beliefs.
Correct automatic negative thoughts.
>Negative cognitive triad: view of self, world and prospects for the future.
>Automatic thoughts
>Maladaptive automatic thoughts
>Schemes
>Socratic questioning
>Therapeutic metaphors
Collaborative language systems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Problems are created through
language. Reflective team. Not knowing postion.
______________
Anderson & Goolishian
Problems are socially constructed through language in a problem-determined system.
Therapist takes a not knowing position.
Problems are not solved; they are dissolved when a new meaning is attributed to them.
Family therapy reflective team (Anderson)
, *Reflexive questions: future oriented, observer-perspective, unexpected countercharge.
Embedded suggestion
Normative-comparison
Distinction-clarifying
Hypothesis introducing
Process-interrupting
Knowledge arises from social dialogue. Problems are created through language (want to talk
about the problem).
Constructivist theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Core Oder Process, Constructs: reality,
value, self power. Language.
__________________
Lynn Hoffman
Change requires inner motivation rather than environmental or external sources. Challenge
patterned cognition in order to allow for change to occur.
Problems arise when individuals become stuck in unconscious patters that turn into habits.
Core ordering process (COP) the way in which we organize our worldviews.
-reality: the construction of perceptions
-value: the construction of emotional judgment
-self: the construction of a sense of personal sameness or continuity
-power: the construction of a sense of agency
Therapist would utilize basic *centering techniques, problem solving skills, pattern work, and
role playing as intervention.
Adlerian psychology (Individual Psychology) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Inferiority,
social context.
________________
Adler
Difficulties stem from innate feelings of inferiority or false view of self.
Including social context
Child guidance movement
Style of life > Social interest
Collaborative therapeutic relationship built on trust.
Optimism to promote change.
Bowenian family therapy (Integenerational therapy) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Differentiation, fusion, decrease anxiety, genograms, triangulation. Assume
responsibility for own problems.
___________________
Problems develop thorough a lack of differentiation and fusion (lower the level, higher the
anxiety)
Triangulation
Differentiation of self (scale)
Family projection process
Multigenerational transmission process
Nuclear Family Emotional Process/undifferentiated family mass ego
Emotional cutoff
,Sibling positioning
Attachment theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Bowlby & Ainsworth
Trust cultivates autonomy and confidence
Safe haven
Secure base
Secure attachment: stressed/soothed
Avoidant attachment: not distressed/avoid
Disorganized attachment: stressed/resist
Ambivalent attachment: distressed/ambivalent
Discriminate attachment at 7-11 months
Behavioral Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Reinforcement/Punishment.
_____________
Skinner & Watson
Behaviors are learned responses involuntarily acquired and reinforced.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment ex. Spanking
Negative punishment ex. Taking toys away
Token Economy
Shaping
,Cognitive behavioral therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Thoughts, feelings and
behaviors. / Change pattern of thinking. / Collaborative.
_____________
Beck & Ellis
Examines the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Problem focused; goal
oriented
Therapist may use socratic questioning to explore a client's maladaptive thoughts or beliefs.
Correct automatic negative thoughts.
>Negative cognitive triad: view of self, world and prospects for the future.
>Automatic thoughts
>Maladaptive automatic thoughts
>Schemes
>Socratic questioning
>Therapeutic metaphors
Collaborative language systems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Problems are created through
language. Reflective team. Not knowing postion.
______________
Anderson & Goolishian
Problems are socially constructed through language in a problem-determined system.
Therapist takes a not knowing position.
Problems are not solved; they are dissolved when a new meaning is attributed to them.
Family therapy reflective team (Anderson)
, *Reflexive questions: future oriented, observer-perspective, unexpected countercharge.
Embedded suggestion
Normative-comparison
Distinction-clarifying
Hypothesis introducing
Process-interrupting
Knowledge arises from social dialogue. Problems are created through language (want to talk
about the problem).
Constructivist theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Core Oder Process, Constructs: reality,
value, self power. Language.
__________________
Lynn Hoffman
Change requires inner motivation rather than environmental or external sources. Challenge
patterned cognition in order to allow for change to occur.
Problems arise when individuals become stuck in unconscious patters that turn into habits.
Core ordering process (COP) the way in which we organize our worldviews.
-reality: the construction of perceptions
-value: the construction of emotional judgment
-self: the construction of a sense of personal sameness or continuity
-power: the construction of a sense of agency
Therapist would utilize basic *centering techniques, problem solving skills, pattern work, and
role playing as intervention.
