MFT Practice Exam Questions and
Answers
Experiential Therapists - -Would exhibit empathy and facilitate expression of
feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
- Parent Child Relational Problem - -Given when the focus of attention is a
pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication
and the behavior impair family functioning.
- Undifferentiated family ego mass - -Bowenian Term referring to intense
interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
- Splitting - -Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable feelings by
disowning them
- Projective Identification - -process of projecting one's disowned parts onto
others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act out or assume those
disowned parts
- The active phase of Schizophrenia - -two or more of the following:
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or
catatonic behaviors, negative symptoms)
- Euphoria Stage - -Initial Stage of acculturation process during which the
family is in a state of excitement about being in the new culture.
- Rumination Disorder - -A condition in which a child repeatedly chews,
swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over again.
- Object Relations Termination Criteria - -resolution of internal conflicts and
resistances
- Cognitive restructuring - -a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more balanced
thoughts
- Empty Chair Technique - -Having client's talk to different parts of
themselves (or to introject others)
- Core solution focused technique - -helping the couple/family determine
what is working so as to encourage them to do more of it
- Mapping the problem - -narrative therapy intervention
, - Soltuion Focused therapists focus - -client's strengths and on "solutions" or
new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
- Antisocial Personality Disorder - -characterized by aggressive, violent and
unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal norms
- Schizotypical Personality Disorder - -Includes cognitive or perceptual
distortions and eccentric behavior
- Avoidant Personality Disorder - -self imposed social isolation, typically
desire close relationships and are distressed by their lack of social
connections, but isolate themselves out of fear of rejection or criticism
- Schizoid Personality Disorder - -Characterized by an absence of desire for
close relationships, showing flattened affect and indifference to praise or
criticism.
- Family mapping - -A structural family system of diagramming that depicts
family patterns and structure to examine family dynamics
- Genogram - -Bowenian relationship diagrams depicting historical
information fating back three generations
- Family Life Chronology - -Satir- Charts historical and family-of-origin
relationships
- Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia - -physiological arousal in response to
being in situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
- Paranoid Personality Disorder - -a pervasive and long-standing pattern of
distrust and suspiciousness of others
- Specific Phobia - -fear of common or familiar objects or situations
- Treatment for Anorexia - -Family therapy focusing on issues of
enmeshment, communication, power and control
- Denial - -blocks reality from consciousness
- Compensation - -masking perceived weaknesses by developing other
positive traits to make up for limitations
- Displacement - -shifting aggressive impulses from a threatening object to
a safer target
Answers
Experiential Therapists - -Would exhibit empathy and facilitate expression of
feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
- Parent Child Relational Problem - -Given when the focus of attention is a
pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication
and the behavior impair family functioning.
- Undifferentiated family ego mass - -Bowenian Term referring to intense
interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
- Splitting - -Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable feelings by
disowning them
- Projective Identification - -process of projecting one's disowned parts onto
others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act out or assume those
disowned parts
- The active phase of Schizophrenia - -two or more of the following:
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or
catatonic behaviors, negative symptoms)
- Euphoria Stage - -Initial Stage of acculturation process during which the
family is in a state of excitement about being in the new culture.
- Rumination Disorder - -A condition in which a child repeatedly chews,
swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over again.
- Object Relations Termination Criteria - -resolution of internal conflicts and
resistances
- Cognitive restructuring - -a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more balanced
thoughts
- Empty Chair Technique - -Having client's talk to different parts of
themselves (or to introject others)
- Core solution focused technique - -helping the couple/family determine
what is working so as to encourage them to do more of it
- Mapping the problem - -narrative therapy intervention
, - Soltuion Focused therapists focus - -client's strengths and on "solutions" or
new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
- Antisocial Personality Disorder - -characterized by aggressive, violent and
unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal norms
- Schizotypical Personality Disorder - -Includes cognitive or perceptual
distortions and eccentric behavior
- Avoidant Personality Disorder - -self imposed social isolation, typically
desire close relationships and are distressed by their lack of social
connections, but isolate themselves out of fear of rejection or criticism
- Schizoid Personality Disorder - -Characterized by an absence of desire for
close relationships, showing flattened affect and indifference to praise or
criticism.
- Family mapping - -A structural family system of diagramming that depicts
family patterns and structure to examine family dynamics
- Genogram - -Bowenian relationship diagrams depicting historical
information fating back three generations
- Family Life Chronology - -Satir- Charts historical and family-of-origin
relationships
- Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia - -physiological arousal in response to
being in situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
- Paranoid Personality Disorder - -a pervasive and long-standing pattern of
distrust and suspiciousness of others
- Specific Phobia - -fear of common or familiar objects or situations
- Treatment for Anorexia - -Family therapy focusing on issues of
enmeshment, communication, power and control
- Denial - -blocks reality from consciousness
- Compensation - -masking perceived weaknesses by developing other
positive traits to make up for limitations
- Displacement - -shifting aggressive impulses from a threatening object to
a safer target
