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LMFT Exam Questions And Answers
3 primary phenomena that emerged into MFT - Answers✔Psychoanalysis, group therapy, and
race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's research of family communication)
Betrand Russell - Answers✔Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based on level of
abstraction)
Norbert Weiner - Answers✔Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to self-correct a
family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new features: feedback is an
essential feature of effective communication & said a communication theory which focuses
only on information overlooks important dimensions of human communication. (Overlooks
feelings, motives, needs, history, etc.)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy - Answers✔General Systems Theory- parts of systems are interrelated,
and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept was advanced but Kurt Lewis
within Field Theory. General systems theory was first applied to groups.
John Bowlby - Answers✔attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure attachment (anxious-
resistant and anxious-avoidant types), and disorganized/disoriented attachment.
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Paul Popenoe - Answers✔Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast
Emily Mudd - Answers✔-1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which became AAMFT
in 1979.
John Bell - Answers✔May have been the first to treat families. He did so in multiple family
therapy groups and called his approach family group therapy (child-centered phase, parent-
centered phase, and family-centered phase)
Robert MacGregor - Answers✔Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum impact on
families who came from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of professionals
Don Jackson - Answers✔Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses were seen
together
Josef Breuer - Answers✔studied the effects of hypnotism and used it to treat patients with
hysteria, first treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the Talking Cure. Breuer later
referred to it as the Cathartic Method. Freud expanded on this concept into what we now know
Psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler - Answers✔Believed that the individual was influenced by more than internal
drives (Freud) and instead identified the role of society and others had on individual personality
development and functioning. He launched the Child Guidance Movement in Austria, which was
brought to US by Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: overcompensation for felt inferiority,
social interest, sibling birth order, and working with families in front of a live audience.
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Nathan Ackerman - Answers✔Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment (family system
as a client). He was always lively and open to effective use of therapist self-disclosure while
emphasizing the importance of paying attention to non-verbal cues as a means to
understanding the hidden and unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most notable
intervention: Tickling the Defenses teasing, provoking, and stimulating the members of a family
to open up and say what is really on their minds. FATHER OF FAMILY THERAPY
Lyman Wynne - Answers✔Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families with severe
mental and physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality- systemic pretense of harmony
and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility- volatile and
intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits, Rubber-Fence boundary- the
families seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from outside
systems.
Kurt Lewin (group therapy) - Answers✔Field theory, " the whole of group was greater than the
sum of its individuals". Developed the process of change: 1) unfreezing- creating the motivation
and readiness to change, 2) changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things
differently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client to integrate the new
point of view into the organization as well as the individual personality).
Wilfred Bion (Group therapy) - Answers✔Studied groups, importance of group dynamics,
Process vs. content
Jacob Moreno (Group therapy) - Answers✔Created a term Psychodrama
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Peter Laque - Answers✔Started Multiple Family Group Therapy, seeing several families
together in a large group using techniques from traditional therapy, psychodrama, and
encounter groups. Co-therapists were often used.
David Levy - Answers✔Coined Maternal-Overprotectiveness as a result of his studies of
schizophrenia, which described mothers who were deprived of love when they were children,
resulting in a characterological makeup defined by dominance and indulgence.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann - Answers✔schizophrenogenic mother- domineering, aggressive,
rejecting and insecure women who influenced the development of schizophrenia in children.
Theodore Lidz - Answers✔Invested research into causes of schizophrenia. Viewed the etiology
of illness as occurring systematically within the family. did not believe that the mother was the
cause of schizophrenia. His concepts: marital schism: the parents are overly focused on their
own problems which harms marriage, the individuals and children, Marital skew- one parent
dominates the family, and the other is dependent.
The Mental Research Institute (MRI) as Palo Alto - Answers✔Gregory Bateson, William Fry, Jay
Haley, John Weakland, Don Jackson, Virginia Satir
Double bind - Answers✔a situation in which an individual is given two different and
inconsistent messages. It must have 6 characteristics: important emotional relationship,
repeated experience, command not to do or not to NOT do (some act), non verbal abstract
injunction, third injunction that demands a response and prevents escape, individual becomes
conditioned to double-bind.
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LMFT Exam Questions And Answers
3 primary phenomena that emerged into MFT - Answers✔Psychoanalysis, group therapy, and
race to cure schizophrenia (and Bateson's research of family communication)
Betrand Russell - Answers✔Theory of logical types (to define hierarchies based on level of
abstraction)
Norbert Weiner - Answers✔Cybernetics - Family has feedback loops(ongoing) to self-correct a
family system
refined Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication by adding two new features: feedback is an
essential feature of effective communication & said a communication theory which focuses
only on information overlooks important dimensions of human communication. (Overlooks
feelings, motives, needs, history, etc.)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy - Answers✔General Systems Theory- parts of systems are interrelated,
and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept was advanced but Kurt Lewis
within Field Theory. General systems theory was first applied to groups.
John Bowlby - Answers✔attachment theory- secure attachment, insecure attachment (anxious-
resistant and anxious-avoidant types), and disorganized/disoriented attachment.
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Paul Popenoe - Answers✔Founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast
Emily Mudd - Answers✔-1932 founded Marriage Council of Philadelphia, which became AAMFT
in 1979.
John Bell - Answers✔May have been the first to treat families. He did so in multiple family
therapy groups and called his approach family group therapy (child-centered phase, parent-
centered phase, and family-centered phase)
Robert MacGregor - Answers✔Multiple Impact Theory as a way to have maximum impact on
families who came from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of professionals
Don Jackson - Answers✔Conjoint Therapy, marital therapy in which the spouses were seen
together
Josef Breuer - Answers✔studied the effects of hypnotism and used it to treat patients with
hysteria, first treated "Anna O" with what she then deemed the Talking Cure. Breuer later
referred to it as the Cathartic Method. Freud expanded on this concept into what we now know
Psychoanalysis
Alfred Adler - Answers✔Believed that the individual was influenced by more than internal
drives (Freud) and instead identified the role of society and others had on individual personality
development and functioning. He launched the Child Guidance Movement in Austria, which was
brought to US by Rudolph Dreikers. Adele's concepts: overcompensation for felt inferiority,
social interest, sibling birth order, and working with families in front of a live audience.
2|Page
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Nathan Ackerman - Answers✔Classified the family as a solitary unit of treatment (family system
as a client). He was always lively and open to effective use of therapist self-disclosure while
emphasizing the importance of paying attention to non-verbal cues as a means to
understanding the hidden and unspoken aspects of family functioning. Most notable
intervention: Tickling the Defenses teasing, provoking, and stimulating the members of a family
to open up and say what is really on their minds. FATHER OF FAMILY THERAPY
Lyman Wynne - Answers✔Applied psychoanalytic ideas to his work with families with severe
mental and physical disorders. His concepts: pseudomutuality- systemic pretense of harmony
and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy, pseudo hostility- volatile and
intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits, Rubber-Fence boundary- the
families seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from outside
systems.
Kurt Lewin (group therapy) - Answers✔Field theory, " the whole of group was greater than the
sum of its individuals". Developed the process of change: 1) unfreezing- creating the motivation
and readiness to change, 2) changing- helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things
differently, based on a new point of view, 3) refreezing- helping the client to integrate the new
point of view into the organization as well as the individual personality).
Wilfred Bion (Group therapy) - Answers✔Studied groups, importance of group dynamics,
Process vs. content
Jacob Moreno (Group therapy) - Answers✔Created a term Psychodrama
3|Page
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Peter Laque - Answers✔Started Multiple Family Group Therapy, seeing several families
together in a large group using techniques from traditional therapy, psychodrama, and
encounter groups. Co-therapists were often used.
David Levy - Answers✔Coined Maternal-Overprotectiveness as a result of his studies of
schizophrenia, which described mothers who were deprived of love when they were children,
resulting in a characterological makeup defined by dominance and indulgence.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann - Answers✔schizophrenogenic mother- domineering, aggressive,
rejecting and insecure women who influenced the development of schizophrenia in children.
Theodore Lidz - Answers✔Invested research into causes of schizophrenia. Viewed the etiology
of illness as occurring systematically within the family. did not believe that the mother was the
cause of schizophrenia. His concepts: marital schism: the parents are overly focused on their
own problems which harms marriage, the individuals and children, Marital skew- one parent
dominates the family, and the other is dependent.
The Mental Research Institute (MRI) as Palo Alto - Answers✔Gregory Bateson, William Fry, Jay
Haley, John Weakland, Don Jackson, Virginia Satir
Double bind - Answers✔a situation in which an individual is given two different and
inconsistent messages. It must have 6 characteristics: important emotional relationship,
repeated experience, command not to do or not to NOT do (some act), non verbal abstract
injunction, third injunction that demands a response and prevents escape, individual becomes
conditioned to double-bind.
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