MFT Practice Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Experiential Therapists - CORRECT ANSWER - Would exhibit empathy and facilitate
expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
Parent Child Relational Problem - CORRECT ANSWER - Given when the focus of
attention is a pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication and
the behavior impair family functioning.
Undifferentiated family ego mass - CORRECT ANSWER - Bowenian Term referring to
intense interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
Splitting - CORRECT ANSWER - Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable
feelings by disowning them
Projective Identification - CORRECT ANSWER - process of projecting one's disowned
parts onto others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act out or assume those disowned
parts
The active phase of Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWER - two or more of the following:
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviors,
negative symptoms)
Euphoria Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Initial Stage of acculturation process during
which the family is in a state of excitement about being in the new culture.
Rumination Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - A condition in which a child repeatedly
chews, swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over again.
Object Relations Termination Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER - resolution of internal
conflicts and resistances
, Cognitive restructuring - CORRECT ANSWER - a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more balanced thoughts
Empty Chair Technique - CORRECT ANSWER - Having client's talk to different parts of
themselves (or to introject others)
Core solution focused technique - CORRECT ANSWER - helping the couple/family
determine what is working so as to encourage them to do more of it
Mapping the problem - CORRECT ANSWER - narrative therapy intervention
Soltuion Focused therapists focus - CORRECT ANSWER - client's strengths and on
"solutions" or new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
Antisocial Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - characterized by aggressive,
violent and unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal norms
Schizotypical Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - Includes cognitive or
perceptual distortions and eccentric behavior
Avoidant Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - self imposed social isolation,
typically desire close relationships and are distressed by their lack of social connections, but
isolate themselves out of fear of rejection or criticism
Schizoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - Characterized by an absence of
desire for close relationships, showing flattened affect and indifference to praise or criticism.
Family mapping - CORRECT ANSWER - A structural family system of diagramming that
depicts family patterns and structure to examine family dynamics
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Experiential Therapists - CORRECT ANSWER - Would exhibit empathy and facilitate
expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
Parent Child Relational Problem - CORRECT ANSWER - Given when the focus of
attention is a pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication and
the behavior impair family functioning.
Undifferentiated family ego mass - CORRECT ANSWER - Bowenian Term referring to
intense interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
Splitting - CORRECT ANSWER - Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable
feelings by disowning them
Projective Identification - CORRECT ANSWER - process of projecting one's disowned
parts onto others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act out or assume those disowned
parts
The active phase of Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWER - two or more of the following:
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviors,
negative symptoms)
Euphoria Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Initial Stage of acculturation process during
which the family is in a state of excitement about being in the new culture.
Rumination Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - A condition in which a child repeatedly
chews, swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over again.
Object Relations Termination Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER - resolution of internal
conflicts and resistances
, Cognitive restructuring - CORRECT ANSWER - a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more balanced thoughts
Empty Chair Technique - CORRECT ANSWER - Having client's talk to different parts of
themselves (or to introject others)
Core solution focused technique - CORRECT ANSWER - helping the couple/family
determine what is working so as to encourage them to do more of it
Mapping the problem - CORRECT ANSWER - narrative therapy intervention
Soltuion Focused therapists focus - CORRECT ANSWER - client's strengths and on
"solutions" or new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
Antisocial Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - characterized by aggressive,
violent and unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal norms
Schizotypical Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - Includes cognitive or
perceptual distortions and eccentric behavior
Avoidant Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - self imposed social isolation,
typically desire close relationships and are distressed by their lack of social connections, but
isolate themselves out of fear of rejection or criticism
Schizoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - Characterized by an absence of
desire for close relationships, showing flattened affect and indifference to praise or criticism.
Family mapping - CORRECT ANSWER - A structural family system of diagramming that
depicts family patterns and structure to examine family dynamics
