MFT Practice Exam2022/2023 # 62
Questions and Answers.
Experiential Therapists - -Would exhibit empathy and facilitate
expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
-Parent Child Relational Problem - -Given when the focus of
attention is a pattern of interaction between parent and child,
such as poor communication and the behavior impair family
functioning.
-Undifferentiated family ego mass - -Bowenian Term referring to
intense interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
-Splitting - -Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable
feelings by disowning them
-Projective Identification - -process of projecting one's disowned
parts onto others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act
out or assume those disowned parts
-The active phase of Schizophrenia - -two or more of the
following: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly
disorganized or catatonic behaviors, negative symptoms)
-Euphoria Stage - -Initial Stage of acculturation process during
which the family is in a state of excitement about being in the
new culture.
-Rumination Disorder - -A condition in which a child repeatedly
chews, swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over
again.
-Object Relations Termination Criteria - -resolution of internal
conflicts and resistances
-Cognitive restructuring - -a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more
balanced thoughts
-Empty Chair Technique - -Having client's talk to different parts
of themselves (or to introject others)
, -Core solution focused technique - -helping the couple/family
determine what is working so as to encourage them to do more
of it
-Mapping the problem - -narrative therapy intervention
-Soltuion Focused therapists focus - -client's strengths and on
"solutions" or new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
-Antisocial Personality Disorder - -characterized by aggressive,
violent and unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal
norms
-Schizotypical Personality Disorder - -Includes cognitive or
perceptual distortions and eccentric behavior
-Avoidant Personality Disorder - -self imposed social isolation,
typically desire close relationships and are distressed by their
lack of social connections, but isolate themselves out of fear of
rejection or criticism
-Schizoid Personality Disorder - -Characterized by an absence of
desire for close relationships, showing flattened affect and
indifference to praise or criticism.
-Family mapping - -A structural family system of diagramming
that depicts family patterns and structure to examine family
dynamics
-Genogram - -Bowenian relationship diagrams depicting
historical information fating back three generations
-Family Life Chronology - -Satir- Charts historical and family-of-
origin relationships
-Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia - -physiological arousal in
response to being in situations from which escape might be
difficult or embarrassing
-Paranoid Personality Disorder - -a pervasive and long-standing
pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others
Questions and Answers.
Experiential Therapists - -Would exhibit empathy and facilitate
expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship
-Parent Child Relational Problem - -Given when the focus of
attention is a pattern of interaction between parent and child,
such as poor communication and the behavior impair family
functioning.
-Undifferentiated family ego mass - -Bowenian Term referring to
intense interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation
-Splitting - -Defense mechanism of dealing with uncomfortable
feelings by disowning them
-Projective Identification - -process of projecting one's disowned
parts onto others, who then feel an unconscious pressure to act
out or assume those disowned parts
-The active phase of Schizophrenia - -two or more of the
following: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly
disorganized or catatonic behaviors, negative symptoms)
-Euphoria Stage - -Initial Stage of acculturation process during
which the family is in a state of excitement about being in the
new culture.
-Rumination Disorder - -A condition in which a child repeatedly
chews, swallows and regurgitates his or her food, over and over
again.
-Object Relations Termination Criteria - -resolution of internal
conflicts and resistances
-Cognitive restructuring - -a technique to help clients challenge
dysfunctional beliefs and cognitions and substituting more
balanced thoughts
-Empty Chair Technique - -Having client's talk to different parts
of themselves (or to introject others)
, -Core solution focused technique - -helping the couple/family
determine what is working so as to encourage them to do more
of it
-Mapping the problem - -narrative therapy intervention
-Soltuion Focused therapists focus - -client's strengths and on
"solutions" or new ways of behaving and thinking in the future
-Antisocial Personality Disorder - -characterized by aggressive,
violent and unlawful behavior and a failure to conform to societal
norms
-Schizotypical Personality Disorder - -Includes cognitive or
perceptual distortions and eccentric behavior
-Avoidant Personality Disorder - -self imposed social isolation,
typically desire close relationships and are distressed by their
lack of social connections, but isolate themselves out of fear of
rejection or criticism
-Schizoid Personality Disorder - -Characterized by an absence of
desire for close relationships, showing flattened affect and
indifference to praise or criticism.
-Family mapping - -A structural family system of diagramming
that depicts family patterns and structure to examine family
dynamics
-Genogram - -Bowenian relationship diagrams depicting
historical information fating back three generations
-Family Life Chronology - -Satir- Charts historical and family-of-
origin relationships
-Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia - -physiological arousal in
response to being in situations from which escape might be
difficult or embarrassing
-Paranoid Personality Disorder - -a pervasive and long-standing
pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others
