MFT National Exam Questions And Answers All Verified By An Expert A+ Graded

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MFT National Exam Questions
And Answers All Verified By An
Expert A+ Graded

,Detriangulation - ANS Bowen: The process by which an individual removes self from
emotional field of two others

Formulation - ANS A therapeutic hypothesis about what is responsible for creating and
maintaining a client's presenting problem

Process - ANS How members of a family or group relate; in contrast to content, which
is what they talk about

Treatment contract - ANS An explicit agreement between the client and therapist that




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specifies the terms of therapy, including things such as frequency and length of
sessions, who is to attend, and fees




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Differentiation of self - ANS Bowen: Psychological separation of intellect and emotions
and independence of self from others; opposite of fusion; major goal of therapy




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Emotional cutoff - ANS Bowen: term for flight from an unresolved emotional
attachment

Family life cycle - ANS Systems theory and Bowen: stages of fam life from separation
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from parents to marriage, children, growing older, retirement, to death

Family of origin - ANS Bowen: a person's parents and siblings: usually refers to the
original nuclear family of an adult
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Fusion - ANS Bowen: Blurring of psychological boundaries between self and others
and a contamination of emotional and intellectual functioning; opposite of differentiation
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Genogram - ANS Bowen: Schematic diagram of family system; major technique
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I-position - ANS Bowen: Statement acknowledging one's personal opinions rather than
blaming others or moralizing; both clients and therapist can use

Multigenerational transmission process - ANS Bowen: projection of varying degrees of
immaturity to different children in the same family; the child who is most involved in the
family emotional process emerges with the lowest level of differentiation and passes
problems on to succeeding generations

Process questions - ANS Bowen: Designed to help family members think about their
own reactions to what others are doing; major therapy technique

, Relationships experiments - ANS Bowen: Suggestions for trying new ways of
responding to family stresses, designed more to help family members understand how
emotional processes work than to solve problems; major therapy technique

Triangle - ANS Bowen: a 3 person system; the smallest stable unit of human relations;
technique of therapy is to neutralize this

Triangulation - ANS Bowen: Detouring conflict between two people by involving a third
person, stabilzing the relationship between the original pair, but freezes conflict in place




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Undifferentiated family ego mass - ANS Bowen: early term for emotional




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"stuck-togetherness" or fusion in the family, especially prominent in schizophrenic
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Emotional fusion - ANS Bowen: often the major problem in families; grows out of an
instinctual need for others but is an unhealthy distortion of the need, based on anxious
attachment

Coaching - ANS Bowen: therapist hopes to avoid taking over for clients or becoming
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embroiled in family triangles; asking questions designed to help people figure out family
emotional processes and their role in them

Murray Bowen - ANS Bowen Family Systems Therapy
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Philip Guerin - ANS Student of Murray Bowen
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Circular causality - ANS Systems theory and Strategic: idea that events are related
through a series of interacting loops or repeating cycles
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Circular questioning - ANS Systems theory and Strategic: method of interviewing
developed by the Milan Associates in which questions are asked that highlight
differences among family members

Communications theory - ANS Systems theory and Strategic: study of relationships in
terms of the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages

Cybernetics - ANS Systems theory and Strategic: study of control processes in
systems, especially analysis of the flow of information in closed systems