MFT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY WELL
DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY
GRADED A+
White Privelage - ANSWERS-a) Social Justice
b) The societal privileges that benefit white people in Western countries beyond
what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social,
political, or economic circumstances.
c) A white therapist might ignore, underestimate or be unaware of the extensive
forces of oppression that a black family undergoes and how that plays out within
the family and in the therapy room.
Validity - ANSWERS-a) Research Methods
b) The extent to which an instrument measures what it claims to measure
c) Content validity: A depression scale should include all the important symptoms
of depression and not overlook any important ones.
Unbalancing - ANSWERS-a) Structural
,b) In-session intervention where a therapist temporarily takes sides to change
family interactions/alter a dysfunctional hierarchy.
c) A therapist may temporarily align with the peripheral father and ignore the
enmeshed mother to raise the father in the hierarchy.
Boundaries - ANSWERS-a) Structural Therapy
b) Invisible lines that regulate closeness and distance and exchange of
information among family members, and between families and the environment.
Diffuse - enmeshed, Rigid - disengaged, Clear - firm but flexible
c) A Father who distances himself from a feuding Mother/daughter and does not
get involved = Rigid
AAMFT Clinical Fellow - ANSWERS-a) AAMFT
b) A credentialed member of the AAMFT; Has met the standards for independent
clinical practice.
c) 1.Clinical membership (licensure) Eligible to apply if you have a license and
reside in an accepted state.
2. Clinical membership (evaluative) Eligible to apply if you live in a state that
doesn't license mat's or does but the license isn't accepted by the AAMFT.
Accreditation - ANSWERS-a) Program Standards
b) Certification granted to an educational institution that meets performance
standards of an institution of accreditation. Enables the consumer to know the
quality of the program.
, c) The MFT program at FU is accredited by COAMFTE
*Blended Family - ANSWERS-a) Divorce
b) Step-families. Separate families united by marriage or coupling which face non-
normative developmental challenges of redefining/merging roles, rules, and
rituals for a new family structure
c) Redefining the role of parenting a new step-dad will have with his new step-
children.
Caring Day Technique - ANSWERS-a) Strategic (Richard Stuart)
b) A therapist tasks a problem couple to generate a list of small positive things
that they can do to show each other that they care.
c) Each member of a couple has to come up with a list of no more than 5 concrete
things they want the other to do. Has to be small and specific things (buy flowers,
give a hug, make the bed), has to be something the other can do, and has to be
positively framed to do something, not to not do something.
Cloe Madanes - ANSWERS-a) Strategic Family Therapist
b) Together with Jay Haley, founded the Family Therapy Institute in Washington
DC. Uses playfulness, benevolent interpretation of symptoms, humor, and
metaphor in therapy.
c) A wife's reluctance to have sex with her husband is a benevolent way to protect
him from experiencing performance anxiety.
Co-dependency - ANSWERS-a) Substance Abuse and Addiction
QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY WELL
DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY
GRADED A+
White Privelage - ANSWERS-a) Social Justice
b) The societal privileges that benefit white people in Western countries beyond
what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social,
political, or economic circumstances.
c) A white therapist might ignore, underestimate or be unaware of the extensive
forces of oppression that a black family undergoes and how that plays out within
the family and in the therapy room.
Validity - ANSWERS-a) Research Methods
b) The extent to which an instrument measures what it claims to measure
c) Content validity: A depression scale should include all the important symptoms
of depression and not overlook any important ones.
Unbalancing - ANSWERS-a) Structural
,b) In-session intervention where a therapist temporarily takes sides to change
family interactions/alter a dysfunctional hierarchy.
c) A therapist may temporarily align with the peripheral father and ignore the
enmeshed mother to raise the father in the hierarchy.
Boundaries - ANSWERS-a) Structural Therapy
b) Invisible lines that regulate closeness and distance and exchange of
information among family members, and between families and the environment.
Diffuse - enmeshed, Rigid - disengaged, Clear - firm but flexible
c) A Father who distances himself from a feuding Mother/daughter and does not
get involved = Rigid
AAMFT Clinical Fellow - ANSWERS-a) AAMFT
b) A credentialed member of the AAMFT; Has met the standards for independent
clinical practice.
c) 1.Clinical membership (licensure) Eligible to apply if you have a license and
reside in an accepted state.
2. Clinical membership (evaluative) Eligible to apply if you live in a state that
doesn't license mat's or does but the license isn't accepted by the AAMFT.
Accreditation - ANSWERS-a) Program Standards
b) Certification granted to an educational institution that meets performance
standards of an institution of accreditation. Enables the consumer to know the
quality of the program.
, c) The MFT program at FU is accredited by COAMFTE
*Blended Family - ANSWERS-a) Divorce
b) Step-families. Separate families united by marriage or coupling which face non-
normative developmental challenges of redefining/merging roles, rules, and
rituals for a new family structure
c) Redefining the role of parenting a new step-dad will have with his new step-
children.
Caring Day Technique - ANSWERS-a) Strategic (Richard Stuart)
b) A therapist tasks a problem couple to generate a list of small positive things
that they can do to show each other that they care.
c) Each member of a couple has to come up with a list of no more than 5 concrete
things they want the other to do. Has to be small and specific things (buy flowers,
give a hug, make the bed), has to be something the other can do, and has to be
positively framed to do something, not to not do something.
Cloe Madanes - ANSWERS-a) Strategic Family Therapist
b) Together with Jay Haley, founded the Family Therapy Institute in Washington
DC. Uses playfulness, benevolent interpretation of symptoms, humor, and
metaphor in therapy.
c) A wife's reluctance to have sex with her husband is a benevolent way to protect
him from experiencing performance anxiety.
Co-dependency - ANSWERS-a) Substance Abuse and Addiction
