MFT Exam Chapter 1 History of MFT Review Questions with Answers

How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? - 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. 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 Before the evolution of family therapy, which model dominated the field of psychology? Psychoanalytic theory Why did clinicians break away from the psychoanalytic model, moving towards family therapy models? 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? - clinical and research developments in hospital psychiatry - group dynamics - interpersonal psychiatry - the child guidance movement - research on schizophrenia - marriage counseling Who founded psychoanalysis? Sigmund Freud