MFT Practice Exam 2023:86 sample
questions and answers
A mother calls saying that she would like a therapist to see her
son Tom age 13 who is having problems at school. The teacher
reports that he is not turning in his homework or attending
classes Toms parents disagree on how to handle the problem.
And have been unable to resolve their differences - -See the
child first in an initial session in order to determine his level of
differentiation
-According to Experiential Family Therapy, metaphor, play, and
humor are used to: - -focus on deeper existential problems to
increase insight and promote growth
-After eighteen therapy sessions with a family, here is a greater
distance in the father child relationship but enhanced closeness
in the marital relationship. The change would be referred to as a
change in family - -Structure
-A couple comes to therapy reporting conflict and decreased
affection on the part of one of the partners. The therapist initially
decides to work on their communication pattern to help them
determine its effect on their feelings. The first step is to ask them
to - -Calmly listen to each other because intensifying the
interaction may be contraindicated
-A primary use for family life cycle information is to - -c. direct
families to a subsequent healthier stage
-A therapist is treating a couple in which conflict between an
emotional pursuer and an emotional distance is escalating
toward emotional cutoff. An effective intervention to prevent
cutoff would be to: - -coach the emotional pursuer to pull back
from the pursuit.
, -When working with families where violence has occurred, it is
MOST IMPORTANT for the therapist to: - -b. periodically ask
about recorrences
-When progress in therapy becomes stalled, an intergenerational
family therapist MOST LIKELY will - -invite more family
members to express their emotions
-Therapy sessions have resolved the presenting problems
between parents and their teenager. The teenager wants to
continue therapy, but the parents have reservations. This lack of
agreement indicates that the - -parents have developed a
countertransference
-A therapist asking circular questions is attempting to assess - --
The ways individual members make sense of their relational
problems
-Therapists who are guided by second-order cybernetic theory
would be MOST INTERESTED in the: - -potential first-order
changes that may occur as the result of problem-solving efforts
-The most accurate statement about conflict detouring within
the family is that this process: - -reduces pressure on the
children, but places more stress upon the spouses.
-Which one of the following phenomena would a therapist
observe in a healthy couple? - -The couple deals with sex and
related issues mostly through nonverbal communication.
-with Mrs. Thomas and her 10-year-old daughter, Lisa, the
therapist observes that they are stuck in an ongoing argument
about whether or not Lisa can spend a week at the beach with
teenage friends. Mrs. T.: "Lisa, I've said it before and t'll say it
again: I still think that you are too young to be in an
unsupervised situation. It is just too risky and I don't want my
daughter doing this. Furthermore, I am sick and tired of
arguing." "Mom, you are absolutely in the dark ages. All my
friends are allowed to go; their mothers trust them, so why can't
questions and answers
A mother calls saying that she would like a therapist to see her
son Tom age 13 who is having problems at school. The teacher
reports that he is not turning in his homework or attending
classes Toms parents disagree on how to handle the problem.
And have been unable to resolve their differences - -See the
child first in an initial session in order to determine his level of
differentiation
-According to Experiential Family Therapy, metaphor, play, and
humor are used to: - -focus on deeper existential problems to
increase insight and promote growth
-After eighteen therapy sessions with a family, here is a greater
distance in the father child relationship but enhanced closeness
in the marital relationship. The change would be referred to as a
change in family - -Structure
-A couple comes to therapy reporting conflict and decreased
affection on the part of one of the partners. The therapist initially
decides to work on their communication pattern to help them
determine its effect on their feelings. The first step is to ask them
to - -Calmly listen to each other because intensifying the
interaction may be contraindicated
-A primary use for family life cycle information is to - -c. direct
families to a subsequent healthier stage
-A therapist is treating a couple in which conflict between an
emotional pursuer and an emotional distance is escalating
toward emotional cutoff. An effective intervention to prevent
cutoff would be to: - -coach the emotional pursuer to pull back
from the pursuit.
, -When working with families where violence has occurred, it is
MOST IMPORTANT for the therapist to: - -b. periodically ask
about recorrences
-When progress in therapy becomes stalled, an intergenerational
family therapist MOST LIKELY will - -invite more family
members to express their emotions
-Therapy sessions have resolved the presenting problems
between parents and their teenager. The teenager wants to
continue therapy, but the parents have reservations. This lack of
agreement indicates that the - -parents have developed a
countertransference
-A therapist asking circular questions is attempting to assess - --
The ways individual members make sense of their relational
problems
-Therapists who are guided by second-order cybernetic theory
would be MOST INTERESTED in the: - -potential first-order
changes that may occur as the result of problem-solving efforts
-The most accurate statement about conflict detouring within
the family is that this process: - -reduces pressure on the
children, but places more stress upon the spouses.
-Which one of the following phenomena would a therapist
observe in a healthy couple? - -The couple deals with sex and
related issues mostly through nonverbal communication.
-with Mrs. Thomas and her 10-year-old daughter, Lisa, the
therapist observes that they are stuck in an ongoing argument
about whether or not Lisa can spend a week at the beach with
teenage friends. Mrs. T.: "Lisa, I've said it before and t'll say it
again: I still think that you are too young to be in an
unsupervised situation. It is just too risky and I don't want my
daughter doing this. Furthermore, I am sick and tired of
arguing." "Mom, you are absolutely in the dark ages. All my
friends are allowed to go; their mothers trust them, so why can't
