Marriage and Family Therapy National Exam || with 100% Errorless Answers.

Contextual correct answers The concept of balance of fairness is synonymous with which theory: Ludwig von Bertalanffy correct answers Father of General Systems Theory Bowen. (Bowen's model, performing an assessment by interviewing one partner at a time) correct answers A method for preventing marital conflict from interfering with the assessment process is a method by whom? Psychoeducational correct answers A family enters therapy because the 5 year old is uncontrollable and has been diagnosed as autistic. The recommended approach for treating the family is: When first starting out with a family in therapy, it is important to Adjust your style to the family's, paying close attention to both verbal and nonverbal cues as you attempt to engage with each member of the family. What model, technique, and person is this? correct answers Engagement technique - Structural, Minuchin Experiential (Whitaker & Satir) correct answers The theory that sees the therapist's "use of self" as central to the assessment process is: Carl Whitaker correct answers The effort to create anxiety in the large system is the goal of: Carl Whitaker (family therapist) correct answers He often used very confrontational techniques including argument, teasing, yelling, and approaches designed to produce tension and stress, which he believed where necessary for change. 1. Started the idea of mutual observation 2. Believed stress was necessary for change 3. Experiential Homeostasis correct answers A term that addresses the tendency for all systems to gravitate toward remaining the same over time. More reliant upon the therapist's personal feelings. correct answers Compared to MRI-brief therapy, Experiential is: Symptom relief is a lesser goal of which school? correct answers A. Strategic B. MRI C. Object Relations (correct answer: this type of therapy emphasizes Insight & Healing rather than symptom relief) D. Structural Invisible Loyalties correct answers From Nagy's contextual therapy, unconscious obligations that children take on in order to help their families, sacrificing their own interests and well being in the process.