MFT Exam-Questions with Correct solutions
A fundamental tenant of a Constructivist perspective is that language shapes reality. In
Solution-Focused Therapy this notion was...
Accentuated to stating that language creates reality
A 42 year-old woman reports panic attacks most nights. Her recent history includes the
breakup of her engagement to be married. Her father died when she was 9 and she has
lived alone with her mother throughout most of her childhood and adult life. The
clinician's next steps should be:
Assess her impulse control to rule out the possibility of harming herself or anyone else.
You are consulting with a colleague who is working in therapy with a 2nd grade child who
has been referred by his school counselor for bullying other children. She has been both
verbally and physically aggressive towards other children. Using Dreikur's concept of
Mistaken Goals, you might suggest she respond to this child by...
Assessing for and showing empathy towards the ways in which the child herself has been hurt.
A family is referred to Kathy A. By the school for therapy because John, age 12, is
disruptive at school and has been diagnosed as having ADD. The mother in her phone
conversation with Kathy says how reluctant they are to start therapy again since the
previous therapist had spend most of the time talking about the mother being too
inconsistent and overprotective and the father being angry and uninvolved. They felt
blamed and that the therapist did not offer anything of use to address John's disruptive
behavior at school or at home. After meeting with the family and reading the medical
,reports, Kathy agreed with the diagnosis and decided to help the family and John
understand ADD and teach them how to cope with it. She decided to use what model?
Psychoeducational approach
One of the defining characteristics of the therapist's stance of the Narrative Therapy
movement is its emphasis on...
Neutrality
A therapist seeing an extended family consisting of a grandmother, mother and 2
daughters, notices that the grandmother speaks to her daughter with a certain disdain.
This seems similar to the way the older daughter speaks to her sister. This is an example of:
Isomorphism
Both the Constructivist and Milan Systemic therapists agree that
Living systems are characterized by loop formations rather than linear cause-effect
All of the following are true of the Behavioral Model, EXCEPT:
A. Systems descriptions are inferred from observable and represent motor constructs
B. the main interest is in observable, operationalizability and a molecular view
C. Resistance is rejected, there is a concern with long-term maintenance
D. Therapy is more likely to engage in subsystem analysis: causal factors that can be tested
are hypothesized.
Systems descriptions are inferred from observable and represent motor constructs
You are on the road when you call a client to make a scheduling change. You forget to hide
your number and inadvertently your personal cell number is logged on your client's phone.
,A couple weeks later, this same client texts you with a couple of follow-up questions from
your last session. The most ethical response is to:
In a supportive manner, inform the client that the answers he/she is looking for require more than
a text and would best be discussed in their next session.
Mr. & Mrs. W. were worried about their youngest daughter. They described her as
isolating herself from her friends, acting somewhat listless, having a significant weight gain
and not sleeping. These symptoms best describe:
Persistent Depressive Disorder
A feminist approach to family therapy includes all EXCEPT:
A. A recognition of women's subordination and inferior social position
B. An awareness of attempts to counteract the ways in which family therapy may reinforce
women's subordinate position
C. The idea that family therapists often have stereotypical expectations of men and women
D. The idea that family therapy attempts to empower and stregthen all family members
D. The idea that family therapy attempts to empower and strengthen all family members
A therapist is working with a family, and hypothesizes that a scapegoated child's behavior
may be his/her means of loyally acting out his/her parents' need for expressing anger (a
cycle that may have connections to behavioral sequences begun generations before). This
therapist is most likely assessing from the..
Contextual model
, When a Structural therapist assesses a family and notes that boundaries are weak and
there is excessive proximity among members, the therapist is suggesting:
Enmeshment
The philosopher Foucault exposed how various discourses with a society
Are dehumanized, objectified, and marginalized by various social groups who are in power over
the other groups
Studies show that children of gay and lesbian couples compared with straight couples have:
The same problems
A 12 year old boy told a friend in school that he was going to kill himself so that he didn't
have to tell his parents about a recent poor test grade. The friend told a teacher who
contacted the mother who became very upset over the phone. The teacher recommended an
urgent appointment with a local family therapist. The boy has an older sister who has been
in treatment for depression and a father who abuses alcohol. Before his initial interview
with the boy, the clinician learns from the parents through a phone call, that although he
did ultimately go home and tell his parents about the poor grade, he has repeated his
suicide threat to other people. From this new information the clinician concludes:
It is not good practice to determine the risk level from this information alone.
Which of the following are similarities between strategic and structural model?
A. They both consider the impact of the life-cycle stage
B. They use in-session interactions to assess the family and emphasize process over content
A fundamental tenant of a Constructivist perspective is that language shapes reality. In
Solution-Focused Therapy this notion was...
Accentuated to stating that language creates reality
A 42 year-old woman reports panic attacks most nights. Her recent history includes the
breakup of her engagement to be married. Her father died when she was 9 and she has
lived alone with her mother throughout most of her childhood and adult life. The
clinician's next steps should be:
Assess her impulse control to rule out the possibility of harming herself or anyone else.
You are consulting with a colleague who is working in therapy with a 2nd grade child who
has been referred by his school counselor for bullying other children. She has been both
verbally and physically aggressive towards other children. Using Dreikur's concept of
Mistaken Goals, you might suggest she respond to this child by...
Assessing for and showing empathy towards the ways in which the child herself has been hurt.
A family is referred to Kathy A. By the school for therapy because John, age 12, is
disruptive at school and has been diagnosed as having ADD. The mother in her phone
conversation with Kathy says how reluctant they are to start therapy again since the
previous therapist had spend most of the time talking about the mother being too
inconsistent and overprotective and the father being angry and uninvolved. They felt
blamed and that the therapist did not offer anything of use to address John's disruptive
behavior at school or at home. After meeting with the family and reading the medical
,reports, Kathy agreed with the diagnosis and decided to help the family and John
understand ADD and teach them how to cope with it. She decided to use what model?
Psychoeducational approach
One of the defining characteristics of the therapist's stance of the Narrative Therapy
movement is its emphasis on...
Neutrality
A therapist seeing an extended family consisting of a grandmother, mother and 2
daughters, notices that the grandmother speaks to her daughter with a certain disdain.
This seems similar to the way the older daughter speaks to her sister. This is an example of:
Isomorphism
Both the Constructivist and Milan Systemic therapists agree that
Living systems are characterized by loop formations rather than linear cause-effect
All of the following are true of the Behavioral Model, EXCEPT:
A. Systems descriptions are inferred from observable and represent motor constructs
B. the main interest is in observable, operationalizability and a molecular view
C. Resistance is rejected, there is a concern with long-term maintenance
D. Therapy is more likely to engage in subsystem analysis: causal factors that can be tested
are hypothesized.
Systems descriptions are inferred from observable and represent motor constructs
You are on the road when you call a client to make a scheduling change. You forget to hide
your number and inadvertently your personal cell number is logged on your client's phone.
,A couple weeks later, this same client texts you with a couple of follow-up questions from
your last session. The most ethical response is to:
In a supportive manner, inform the client that the answers he/she is looking for require more than
a text and would best be discussed in their next session.
Mr. & Mrs. W. were worried about their youngest daughter. They described her as
isolating herself from her friends, acting somewhat listless, having a significant weight gain
and not sleeping. These symptoms best describe:
Persistent Depressive Disorder
A feminist approach to family therapy includes all EXCEPT:
A. A recognition of women's subordination and inferior social position
B. An awareness of attempts to counteract the ways in which family therapy may reinforce
women's subordinate position
C. The idea that family therapists often have stereotypical expectations of men and women
D. The idea that family therapy attempts to empower and stregthen all family members
D. The idea that family therapy attempts to empower and strengthen all family members
A therapist is working with a family, and hypothesizes that a scapegoated child's behavior
may be his/her means of loyally acting out his/her parents' need for expressing anger (a
cycle that may have connections to behavioral sequences begun generations before). This
therapist is most likely assessing from the..
Contextual model
, When a Structural therapist assesses a family and notes that boundaries are weak and
there is excessive proximity among members, the therapist is suggesting:
Enmeshment
The philosopher Foucault exposed how various discourses with a society
Are dehumanized, objectified, and marginalized by various social groups who are in power over
the other groups
Studies show that children of gay and lesbian couples compared with straight couples have:
The same problems
A 12 year old boy told a friend in school that he was going to kill himself so that he didn't
have to tell his parents about a recent poor test grade. The friend told a teacher who
contacted the mother who became very upset over the phone. The teacher recommended an
urgent appointment with a local family therapist. The boy has an older sister who has been
in treatment for depression and a father who abuses alcohol. Before his initial interview
with the boy, the clinician learns from the parents through a phone call, that although he
did ultimately go home and tell his parents about the poor grade, he has repeated his
suicide threat to other people. From this new information the clinician concludes:
It is not good practice to determine the risk level from this information alone.
Which of the following are similarities between strategic and structural model?
A. They both consider the impact of the life-cycle stage
B. They use in-session interactions to assess the family and emphasize process over content
