MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST BOARD
EVALUATION 2026 GUARANTEED PASS
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an
individual's treatment when. Answer: they noticed when the patient got
better, someone in the family got worse & they realized the family
continued to influence the course of treatment anyway
● Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this
concept to describe the patterns of disturbed family communication,
which cause schizophrenia.. Answer: double bind
● According to Theodore Lidz, marital schism occurs when:. Answer:
there is a chronic failure of spouses to achieve role reciprocity
● Jackson's concept that families are units that resist change, became the
defining metaphor of family therapy's first three decades.. Answer:
family homeostasis
● This family therapist's personal resolution of emotional reactivity in
his family was as significant for his approach to family therapy as
Freud's self-analysis was for psychoanalysis.. Answer: Murray Bowen
, ● The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general
categories: joining and _____.. Answer: restructuring techniques
● The tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady
state is known as:. Answer: homeostasis
● A relationship in which a husband and a wife both pursue careers and
share housekeeping and child rearing responsibilities is. Answer:
symmetrical
● According to communications theory, health families are able to adapt
to changing circumstances through use of. Answer: positive feedback
● What is essential to accomplish in the first session in order to establish
a productive therapeutic alliance with a family?. Answer: Connection
with each member, establish leadership, and focus on specific problems.
● Why is traditional couples therapy considered potentially dangerous in
the treatment of causes involving material violence?. Answer: the
violence would be heightened.
● Which is not a concept of vonBertalanffy's general systems theory?.
Answer: "blackbox" metaphor
EVALUATION 2026 GUARANTEED PASS
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an
individual's treatment when. Answer: they noticed when the patient got
better, someone in the family got worse & they realized the family
continued to influence the course of treatment anyway
● Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this
concept to describe the patterns of disturbed family communication,
which cause schizophrenia.. Answer: double bind
● According to Theodore Lidz, marital schism occurs when:. Answer:
there is a chronic failure of spouses to achieve role reciprocity
● Jackson's concept that families are units that resist change, became the
defining metaphor of family therapy's first three decades.. Answer:
family homeostasis
● This family therapist's personal resolution of emotional reactivity in
his family was as significant for his approach to family therapy as
Freud's self-analysis was for psychoanalysis.. Answer: Murray Bowen
, ● The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general
categories: joining and _____.. Answer: restructuring techniques
● The tendency of families to resist change in order to maintain a steady
state is known as:. Answer: homeostasis
● A relationship in which a husband and a wife both pursue careers and
share housekeeping and child rearing responsibilities is. Answer:
symmetrical
● According to communications theory, health families are able to adapt
to changing circumstances through use of. Answer: positive feedback
● What is essential to accomplish in the first session in order to establish
a productive therapeutic alliance with a family?. Answer: Connection
with each member, establish leadership, and focus on specific problems.
● Why is traditional couples therapy considered potentially dangerous in
the treatment of causes involving material violence?. Answer: the
violence would be heightened.
● Which is not a concept of vonBertalanffy's general systems theory?.
Answer: "blackbox" metaphor
