MFT Exam: Chapter 3 Transgenerational
Models Questions And Answers
What is the hallmark of the transgenerational model of family
therapy? -
correct answer ✅The powerful influences that past generations
have on the present.
The quality of family of origin interactions are thought to influence:
-
correct answer ✅- One's choice of mate and marital expectations
for marriage.
- Each mate interacts according to their internalized unconscious
needs, longings and fantasies.
Treatment in transgenerational models require... -
correct answer ✅That family members come to an understanding
of the underlying dynamic issues that affect their relationship
(insight). Thus making the unconscious conscious.
Insights must lead to: -
correct answer ✅New and more productive ways of behaving and
interacting
,MFT Exam: Chapter 3 Transgenerational
Models Questions And Answers
The transgenerational models take into account... -
correct answer ✅The relationships with prior generations as a
mean to understanding and improving relationships with the
nuclear family.
Best way to treat a symptomatic child
(transgenerational model) -
correct answer ✅- Treat the parents.
- Treatment tends to last 2 years (longer than other family therapy
models).
Transgenerational vs Psychoanalytic -
correct answer ✅1. Do not subscribe to a linear model of causality
2. Problems are maintained in ongoing patterns through
generations.
3. Model views individuals across generations rather than focus on
the individual.
Who were the principle practitioners of the transgenerational
models of family therapy? -
correct answer ✅- Murray Bowen and his followers: Philip Guerin,
Betty Carter, Norman Paul, and Monica McGoldrick
, MFT Exam: Chapter 3 Transgenerational
Models Questions And Answers
- Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
- James Framo
- Fairbairn, Dicks, and Scharff & Scharff
Murray Bowen -
correct answer ✅- psychiatrist trained in psychoanalytic theory
- studied relationships between schizophrenic patients and their
mothers
- 1950s worked at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- observed patterns of familial closeness and distance that formed
his theoretical construct of differentiation of self
Bowen suggests that it is important for therapists to... -
correct answer ✅- guard against being drawn into the client
family's emotional processes
- differentiate from his/her own family to determine their success in
resisting the tendency to become emotionally reactive with clients.
Differentiation -
correct answer ✅- Created by Bowen
Models Questions And Answers
What is the hallmark of the transgenerational model of family
therapy? -
correct answer ✅The powerful influences that past generations
have on the present.
The quality of family of origin interactions are thought to influence:
-
correct answer ✅- One's choice of mate and marital expectations
for marriage.
- Each mate interacts according to their internalized unconscious
needs, longings and fantasies.
Treatment in transgenerational models require... -
correct answer ✅That family members come to an understanding
of the underlying dynamic issues that affect their relationship
(insight). Thus making the unconscious conscious.
Insights must lead to: -
correct answer ✅New and more productive ways of behaving and
interacting
,MFT Exam: Chapter 3 Transgenerational
Models Questions And Answers
The transgenerational models take into account... -
correct answer ✅The relationships with prior generations as a
mean to understanding and improving relationships with the
nuclear family.
Best way to treat a symptomatic child
(transgenerational model) -
correct answer ✅- Treat the parents.
- Treatment tends to last 2 years (longer than other family therapy
models).
Transgenerational vs Psychoanalytic -
correct answer ✅1. Do not subscribe to a linear model of causality
2. Problems are maintained in ongoing patterns through
generations.
3. Model views individuals across generations rather than focus on
the individual.
Who were the principle practitioners of the transgenerational
models of family therapy? -
correct answer ✅- Murray Bowen and his followers: Philip Guerin,
Betty Carter, Norman Paul, and Monica McGoldrick
, MFT Exam: Chapter 3 Transgenerational
Models Questions And Answers
- Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
- James Framo
- Fairbairn, Dicks, and Scharff & Scharff
Murray Bowen -
correct answer ✅- psychiatrist trained in psychoanalytic theory
- studied relationships between schizophrenic patients and their
mothers
- 1950s worked at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- observed patterns of familial closeness and distance that formed
his theoretical construct of differentiation of self
Bowen suggests that it is important for therapists to... -
correct answer ✅- guard against being drawn into the client
family's emotional processes
- differentiate from his/her own family to determine their success in
resisting the tendency to become emotionally reactive with clients.
Differentiation -
correct answer ✅- Created by Bowen
