MFT LICENSING EXAM Latest Updated 2024
The goals of Adlerian family therapy include:
A. Establish children as co-leaders of the family
B. Develop an understanding of the motivations involved and replace automatic,
often non-conscious, negative interactions with a conscious understanding of
family process
C. Describe unique positions each person has held in the family as a means of
redistributing the power in families
D. Challenging male and female roles that encourage boys and girls to lose a
sense of gender identity - correct answers-B. Develop an understanding of the
motivations involved and replace automatic, often non-conscious, negative
interactions with a conscious understanding of family process
Which of the following is indicative of a differentiated self?
A. Emotional cutoff
B. Triangulation
C. Emotional fusion
,D. Rational thought instead of emotional reactivity - correct answers-D. Rational
thought instead of emotional reactivity
A test of differentiation is:
A. Seeing the good in even difficult or emotionally damaging people
B. Returning to previous ways of being when one goes home and allowing parents
to re-assert attachment activities even with grown adults
C. Being able to join family gatherings as an observer who does not get drawn into
other family members' patterns of interaction and emotional processing
D. All of the above - correct answers-C. Being able to join family gatherings as an
observer who does not get drawn into other family members' patterns of
interaction and emotional processing
Emotional cutoff means:
A. Removing oneself to an observer position within the family
B. Separating emotion from events through the application of reason
C. Having no emotional contact or reaction to people with whom one has formerly
been emotionally reactive; the determination to not feel anything
,D. Telling friends to go away if they cannot be supportive - correct answers-C.
Having no emotional contact or reaction to people with whom one has formerly
been emotionally reactive; the determination to not feel anything
The goals that Bowen has for his model of therapy include:
A. Augmenting anxiety so that family problems will become apparent and
transparent
B. Actively engaging in detriangulation processes with the family
C. Closing open family ties that are dysfunctional
D. Highlighting dysfunctional communication patterns through sculpting - correct
answers-B. Actively engaging in detriangulation processes with the family
In the role of teacher or coach, a Bowen therapist might:
A. Stage family situations that are more extreme than the family is facing to help
them work through even harder processes
B. Use a series of questions designed to help family members figure out their own
role in the family emotional process
C. Work to uncover irrational ideas in one family member as a model for how
other family members might think more rationally
, D. All of the above - correct answers-B. Use a series of questions designed to help
family members figure out their own role in the family emotional process
Satir believed that the first step to individual, family, or systemic change was:
A. Making contact and acknowledging present experience and meaning
B. Validating chaos as a foundation for change
C. Using least-used senses (for example, smell) to get a new perspective of family
presentation
D. Reframing problems into potentialities - correct answers-A. Making contact and
acknowledging present experience and meaning
Whitaker identifies three types of intimacy:
A. Lust, sex, closeness
B. Brotherly love, sexual love, love of life
C. The delusion of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, the fact of intimacy
D. The experience of self, the experience of we, the experience of belonging -
correct answers-C. The delusion of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, the fact of
intimacy
The goals of Adlerian family therapy include:
A. Establish children as co-leaders of the family
B. Develop an understanding of the motivations involved and replace automatic,
often non-conscious, negative interactions with a conscious understanding of
family process
C. Describe unique positions each person has held in the family as a means of
redistributing the power in families
D. Challenging male and female roles that encourage boys and girls to lose a
sense of gender identity - correct answers-B. Develop an understanding of the
motivations involved and replace automatic, often non-conscious, negative
interactions with a conscious understanding of family process
Which of the following is indicative of a differentiated self?
A. Emotional cutoff
B. Triangulation
C. Emotional fusion
,D. Rational thought instead of emotional reactivity - correct answers-D. Rational
thought instead of emotional reactivity
A test of differentiation is:
A. Seeing the good in even difficult or emotionally damaging people
B. Returning to previous ways of being when one goes home and allowing parents
to re-assert attachment activities even with grown adults
C. Being able to join family gatherings as an observer who does not get drawn into
other family members' patterns of interaction and emotional processing
D. All of the above - correct answers-C. Being able to join family gatherings as an
observer who does not get drawn into other family members' patterns of
interaction and emotional processing
Emotional cutoff means:
A. Removing oneself to an observer position within the family
B. Separating emotion from events through the application of reason
C. Having no emotional contact or reaction to people with whom one has formerly
been emotionally reactive; the determination to not feel anything
,D. Telling friends to go away if they cannot be supportive - correct answers-C.
Having no emotional contact or reaction to people with whom one has formerly
been emotionally reactive; the determination to not feel anything
The goals that Bowen has for his model of therapy include:
A. Augmenting anxiety so that family problems will become apparent and
transparent
B. Actively engaging in detriangulation processes with the family
C. Closing open family ties that are dysfunctional
D. Highlighting dysfunctional communication patterns through sculpting - correct
answers-B. Actively engaging in detriangulation processes with the family
In the role of teacher or coach, a Bowen therapist might:
A. Stage family situations that are more extreme than the family is facing to help
them work through even harder processes
B. Use a series of questions designed to help family members figure out their own
role in the family emotional process
C. Work to uncover irrational ideas in one family member as a model for how
other family members might think more rationally
, D. All of the above - correct answers-B. Use a series of questions designed to help
family members figure out their own role in the family emotional process
Satir believed that the first step to individual, family, or systemic change was:
A. Making contact and acknowledging present experience and meaning
B. Validating chaos as a foundation for change
C. Using least-used senses (for example, smell) to get a new perspective of family
presentation
D. Reframing problems into potentialities - correct answers-A. Making contact and
acknowledging present experience and meaning
Whitaker identifies three types of intimacy:
A. Lust, sex, closeness
B. Brotherly love, sexual love, love of life
C. The delusion of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, the fact of intimacy
D. The experience of self, the experience of we, the experience of belonging -
correct answers-C. The delusion of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, the fact of
intimacy
