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LMFT EXAM Questions And Answers
Adlerian psychology (Individual Psychology) - Answers✔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) - Answers✔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 - Answers✔Bowlby & Ainsworth
Trust cultivates autonomy and confidence
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Safe haven
Secure base
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 - Answers✔Reinforcement/Punishment.
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Skinner & Watson
Behaviors are learned responses involuntarily acquired and reinforced.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment ex. Spanking
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Negative punishment ex. Taking toys away
Token Economy
Shaping
Cognitive behavioral therapy - Answers✔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
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LMFT EXAM Questions And Answers
Adlerian psychology (Individual Psychology) - Answers✔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.
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Bowenian family therapy (Integenerational therapy) - Answers✔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 - Answers✔Bowlby & Ainsworth
Trust cultivates autonomy and confidence
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Safe haven
Secure base
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 - Answers✔Reinforcement/Punishment.
_____________
Skinner & Watson
Behaviors are learned responses involuntarily acquired and reinforced.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment ex. Spanking
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Negative punishment ex. Taking toys away
Token Economy
Shaping
Cognitive behavioral therapy - Answers✔Thoughts, feelings and behaviors. / Change pattern of
thinking. / Collaborative.
_____________
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
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