MFT NATIONAL MAIN EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔More than most family therapists, Bowen stresses the role of theory for: - ✔✔guiding
treatment, research, teaching purposes
✔✔By symbiosis, Bowen is referring to: - ✔✔an intense mother-child attachment
✔✔Which of the following is not one of Bowen's concepts? - ✔✔interlocking pathology
✔✔The opposite of self-differentiation, in Bowen's view, is: - ✔✔fusion
✔✔With his concept of self-differentiation, Bowen argues for: - ✔✔balance
✔✔The "undifferentiated family ego mass" refers to: - ✔✔family symbiotic relationships
✔✔In Bowen's Differentiation of Self Scale, people at the low end are apt to lead lives: -
✔✔dominated by the feelings of those around them
✔✔According to Bowen, the basic building block in a family's emotional system is the: -
✔✔triangle
✔✔Which of the following does not characterize a high degree of family fusion? - ✔✔the
dyad will emerge safely
✔✔Bowen believed that, generally speaking, people choose mates with
_______________ levels of differentiation than their own: - ✔✔about the same
✔✔The greater the level of undifferentiation of the parents, the more likely they will rely
on the _______________ to stabilize the system: - ✔✔family projection process
✔✔According to Kerr, which of the following is NOT characteristic of emotional cutoff? -
✔✔it is not related to family problems
✔✔Emotional cutoff, according to Bowen, is: - ✔✔a flight from unresolved emotional ties
to one's family
✔✔Bowen refers to the development of schizophrenia in a family member requiring
several generations to manifest itself as a: - ✔✔multigenerational transmission process
✔✔Bowen's concept of societal regression extends his view to: - ✔✔society's emotional
functioning
, ✔✔A major technique utilized by Bowenian therapists involves: - ✔✔studying family
transactional patterns
✔✔Genograms helps shed light on: - ✔✔a family's multigenerational relationship
patterns
✔✔Which of the following is not a goal of Family Systems Therapy? - ✔✔self-
knowledge
✔✔Family Systems Therapy attempts to modify the family's customary: -
✔✔triangulated system
✔✔In his therapeutic approach, Bowen: - ✔✔may choose to work only with the better-
differentiated partner
✔✔Bowen encouraged back home visits in order to: - ✔✔monitor distressing emotional
patterns with one's family
✔✔Bowen's work with families tended to be: - ✔✔calm and low-key
✔✔One goal in Family Systems Therapy is for each family member to: - ✔✔maximize
self-differentiation
✔✔Common terms used by experiential family therapists include all but one of the
following. Which term does not fit with the others? - ✔✔unconscious
✔✔Generally speaking, experiential therapists: - ✔✔provide a nonrational therapeutic
experience
✔✔The newest form of experiential family therapy is: - ✔✔Emotionally-Focused Couple
Therapy
✔✔Experiential therapists are especially critical of: - ✔✔intellectualization
✔✔Family Sculpting is a: - ✔✔a nonverbal communication method
✔✔In Whitaker's view of psychotherapy, both therapist and client(s): - ✔✔regress
✔✔Which therapeutic technique is frequently employed by Symbolic-experiential
therapists? - ✔✔co-therapy
✔✔Whitaker conceptualizes schizophrenia as: - ✔✔an intrapsychic and interpersonal
dilemma
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔More than most family therapists, Bowen stresses the role of theory for: - ✔✔guiding
treatment, research, teaching purposes
✔✔By symbiosis, Bowen is referring to: - ✔✔an intense mother-child attachment
✔✔Which of the following is not one of Bowen's concepts? - ✔✔interlocking pathology
✔✔The opposite of self-differentiation, in Bowen's view, is: - ✔✔fusion
✔✔With his concept of self-differentiation, Bowen argues for: - ✔✔balance
✔✔The "undifferentiated family ego mass" refers to: - ✔✔family symbiotic relationships
✔✔In Bowen's Differentiation of Self Scale, people at the low end are apt to lead lives: -
✔✔dominated by the feelings of those around them
✔✔According to Bowen, the basic building block in a family's emotional system is the: -
✔✔triangle
✔✔Which of the following does not characterize a high degree of family fusion? - ✔✔the
dyad will emerge safely
✔✔Bowen believed that, generally speaking, people choose mates with
_______________ levels of differentiation than their own: - ✔✔about the same
✔✔The greater the level of undifferentiation of the parents, the more likely they will rely
on the _______________ to stabilize the system: - ✔✔family projection process
✔✔According to Kerr, which of the following is NOT characteristic of emotional cutoff? -
✔✔it is not related to family problems
✔✔Emotional cutoff, according to Bowen, is: - ✔✔a flight from unresolved emotional ties
to one's family
✔✔Bowen refers to the development of schizophrenia in a family member requiring
several generations to manifest itself as a: - ✔✔multigenerational transmission process
✔✔Bowen's concept of societal regression extends his view to: - ✔✔society's emotional
functioning
, ✔✔A major technique utilized by Bowenian therapists involves: - ✔✔studying family
transactional patterns
✔✔Genograms helps shed light on: - ✔✔a family's multigenerational relationship
patterns
✔✔Which of the following is not a goal of Family Systems Therapy? - ✔✔self-
knowledge
✔✔Family Systems Therapy attempts to modify the family's customary: -
✔✔triangulated system
✔✔In his therapeutic approach, Bowen: - ✔✔may choose to work only with the better-
differentiated partner
✔✔Bowen encouraged back home visits in order to: - ✔✔monitor distressing emotional
patterns with one's family
✔✔Bowen's work with families tended to be: - ✔✔calm and low-key
✔✔One goal in Family Systems Therapy is for each family member to: - ✔✔maximize
self-differentiation
✔✔Common terms used by experiential family therapists include all but one of the
following. Which term does not fit with the others? - ✔✔unconscious
✔✔Generally speaking, experiential therapists: - ✔✔provide a nonrational therapeutic
experience
✔✔The newest form of experiential family therapy is: - ✔✔Emotionally-Focused Couple
Therapy
✔✔Experiential therapists are especially critical of: - ✔✔intellectualization
✔✔Family Sculpting is a: - ✔✔a nonverbal communication method
✔✔In Whitaker's view of psychotherapy, both therapist and client(s): - ✔✔regress
✔✔Which therapeutic technique is frequently employed by Symbolic-experiential
therapists? - ✔✔co-therapy
✔✔Whitaker conceptualizes schizophrenia as: - ✔✔an intrapsychic and interpersonal
dilemma
