MFT Exam: Chapter 1 History of MFT
Questions And Answers
How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? -
correct answer ✅- Changing social dynamics after WWII
- family roles became less predictable and options for individuals
increased creating more interpersonal tension
- divorce rates increased
- the world entered the atomic age and anxiety reached levels that
made it difficult for the family to cope as a system
- became more accepting of professional help
- some clinicians believed that individual psychological problems
could be better resolved within the context of the family
Goldenberg & Goldenberg five factors that contributed to the
evolution of family therapy. -
correct answer ✅1) the extension of psychological treatment,
eventually including work with whole families.
2) the introduction of general systems theory
3) The investigation of the family's role in the development of
schizophrenia in one of its members
4) The development of the fields of child guidance and marital
counseling.
5) The increased interest in clinical techniques such as group
therapy
,MFT Exam: Chapter 1 History of MFT
Questions And Answers
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the
field of psychology? -
correct answer ✅Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model,
moving towards family therapy models? -
correct answer ✅Clinicians discovered the powerful influence of
the family on treatment outcomes and identified problems that
seemed more likely to be resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed
to the growth of family therapy models? -
correct answer ✅- clinical and research developments in hospital
psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
, MFT Exam: Chapter 1 History of MFT
Questions And Answers
Who founded psychoanalysis? -
correct answer ✅Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? -
correct answer ✅Freud's theory about the individual as he/she
negotiated the stages of psychosexual development. The theory
focuses on individuals but acknowledges the importance of the
family.
Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone
other than the patient would contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into
the causes of schizophrenia during the 1950s? -
correct answer ✅1) When the patients got better, someone else in
the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often
deteriorated when they returned home.
General Systems Theory -
correct answer ✅Researchers were discovering that a whole group
has properties and characteristics that emerge from the group
itself, beyond those of its individual members. Once working with
families, this concept became equally applicable
Questions And Answers
How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? -
correct answer ✅- Changing social dynamics after WWII
- family roles became less predictable and options for individuals
increased creating more interpersonal tension
- divorce rates increased
- the world entered the atomic age and anxiety reached levels that
made it difficult for the family to cope as a system
- became more accepting of professional help
- some clinicians believed that individual psychological problems
could be better resolved within the context of the family
Goldenberg & Goldenberg five factors that contributed to the
evolution of family therapy. -
correct answer ✅1) the extension of psychological treatment,
eventually including work with whole families.
2) the introduction of general systems theory
3) The investigation of the family's role in the development of
schizophrenia in one of its members
4) The development of the fields of child guidance and marital
counseling.
5) The increased interest in clinical techniques such as group
therapy
,MFT Exam: Chapter 1 History of MFT
Questions And Answers
Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the
field of psychology? -
correct answer ✅Psychoanalytic theory
Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model,
moving towards family therapy models? -
correct answer ✅Clinicians discovered the powerful influence of
the family on treatment outcomes and identified problems that
seemed more likely to be resolved by treating the whole family.
According to Nichols and Schwartz, which developments attributed
to the growth of family therapy models? -
correct answer ✅- clinical and research developments in hospital
psychiatry
- group dynamics
- interpersonal psychiatry
- the child guidance movement
- research on schizophrenia
- marriage counseling
, MFT Exam: Chapter 1 History of MFT
Questions And Answers
Who founded psychoanalysis? -
correct answer ✅Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalysis? -
correct answer ✅Freud's theory about the individual as he/she
negotiated the stages of psychosexual development. The theory
focuses on individuals but acknowledges the importance of the
family.
Freud and his followers believed that to have contact with anyone
other than the patient would contaminate the therapy
What were two important observations during the research into
the causes of schizophrenia during the 1950s? -
correct answer ✅1) When the patients got better, someone else in
the family got worse.
2) Although patients improved in the hospital, they often
deteriorated when they returned home.
General Systems Theory -
correct answer ✅Researchers were discovering that a whole group
has properties and characteristics that emerge from the group
itself, beyond those of its individual members. Once working with
families, this concept became equally applicable
