LMFT EXAM Questions and Answers
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Adlerian psychology (Individual Psychology) - ✔✔Inferiority, social context.
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Adler
Difficulties stem from innate feelings of inferiority or false view of self.
Including social context
Child guidance movement
Style of life > Social interest
Collaborative therapeutic relationship built on trust.
Optimism to promote change.
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,Bowenian family therapy (Integenerational therapy) - ✔✔Differentiation,
fusion, decrease anxiety, genograms, triangulation. Assume responsibility
for own problems.
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Problems develop thorough a lack of differentiation and fusion (lower the
level, higher the anxiety)
Triangulation
Differentiation of self (scale)
Family projection process
Multigenerational transmission process
Nuclear Family Emotional Process/undifferentiated family mass ego
Emotional cutoff
Sibling positioning
Attachment theory - ✔✔Bowlby & Ainsworth
Trust cultivates autonomy and confidence
Safe haven
Secure base
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,Secure attachment: stressed/soothed
Avoidant attachment: not distressed/avoid
Disorganized attachment: stressed/resist
Ambivalent attachment: distressed/ambivalent
Discriminate attachment at 7-11 months
Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔Reinforcement/Punishment.
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Skinner & Watson
Behaviors are learned responses involuntarily acquired and reinforced.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment ex. Spanking
Negative punishment ex. Taking toys away
Token Economy
Shaping
Cognitive behavioral therapy - ✔✔Thoughts, feelings and behaviors. /
Change pattern of thinking. / Collaborative.
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, _____________
Beck & Ellis
Examines the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Problem focused; goal oriented
Therapist may use socratic questioning to explore a client's maladaptive
thoughts or beliefs. Correct automatic negative thoughts.
>Negative cognitive triad: view of self, world and prospects for the future.
>Automatic thoughts
>Maladaptive automatic thoughts
>Schemes
>Socratic questioning
>Therapeutic metaphors
Collaborative language systems - ✔✔Problems are created through
language. Reflective team. Not knowing postion.
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Anderson & Goolishian
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Adlerian psychology (Individual Psychology) - ✔✔Inferiority, social context.
________________
Adler
Difficulties stem from innate feelings of inferiority or false view of self.
Including social context
Child guidance movement
Style of life > Social interest
Collaborative therapeutic relationship built on trust.
Optimism to promote change.
1
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,Bowenian family therapy (Integenerational therapy) - ✔✔Differentiation,
fusion, decrease anxiety, genograms, triangulation. Assume responsibility
for own problems.
___________________
Problems develop thorough a lack of differentiation and fusion (lower the
level, higher the anxiety)
Triangulation
Differentiation of self (scale)
Family projection process
Multigenerational transmission process
Nuclear Family Emotional Process/undifferentiated family mass ego
Emotional cutoff
Sibling positioning
Attachment theory - ✔✔Bowlby & Ainsworth
Trust cultivates autonomy and confidence
Safe haven
Secure base
2
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,Secure attachment: stressed/soothed
Avoidant attachment: not distressed/avoid
Disorganized attachment: stressed/resist
Ambivalent attachment: distressed/ambivalent
Discriminate attachment at 7-11 months
Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔Reinforcement/Punishment.
_____________
Skinner & Watson
Behaviors are learned responses involuntarily acquired and reinforced.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment ex. Spanking
Negative punishment ex. Taking toys away
Token Economy
Shaping
Cognitive behavioral therapy - ✔✔Thoughts, feelings and behaviors. /
Change pattern of thinking. / Collaborative.
3
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, _____________
Beck & Ellis
Examines the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Problem focused; goal oriented
Therapist may use socratic questioning to explore a client's maladaptive
thoughts or beliefs. Correct automatic negative thoughts.
>Negative cognitive triad: view of self, world and prospects for the future.
>Automatic thoughts
>Maladaptive automatic thoughts
>Schemes
>Socratic questioning
>Therapeutic metaphors
Collaborative language systems - ✔✔Problems are created through
language. Reflective team. Not knowing postion.
______________
Anderson & Goolishian
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