MFT exam questions (terms) Questions
and Answers.
Spectatoring -
\"From Masters & Johnson
- When sexual dysfunction results from preoccupation with your performance"
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule -
\Every CORRECT response is reinforced
Robber's Cave Study -
\showed that two hostile groups could b emade to get along well and even be friends if
they had a superordinate goal to work together for
Adler's biggest theory -
\Influence of birth order on core personality (first borns are most achievement-oriented)
Vaginismus -
\female experiencing painful spasms during intercourse
Cybernetics -
\study of how systems are controlled and how information feedback loops work
Double bind -
\one person receives contradictory commands from which there is no escape (MRI)
"Family Rules: Marital Quid Pro Quo" -
\Jackson's paper on marital relationships - roles that spouses develop don't just come
from gender differences, but as a result of a series of quid pro quos or mutual
exchanges
Marital schism -
\parents overly focused on their own problems, undercut each other, compete for
children's attention while failing to attend to children's needs
Marital Skew -
\"One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent;
children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that dysfunction
or schizophrenia result"
Pseudomutuality -
\"Lyman Wynne
Systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that masks conflict and blocks intimacy"
,Pseudohostility -
\"Lyman Wynne
Noisy and intense way of masking and distorting both affection and splits"
Rubber Fence Boundary -
\"Lyman Wynne
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impenetrable to information from
the outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation"
Emotional Divorce -
\"Murray Bowen
Parents whose relationship is cool and vacillates between overcloseness and over-
distance"
Differentiation of Self -
\Autonomy from one's family and ability to differentiate between one's thoughts and
feelings
Multigenerational ethical accountability -
\"Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
loyalty, trust, and relational ethics across generations"
Multidirectional Partiality -
\Therapist is accountable to everyone and solutions must be in the best interest of
everyone
Who wrote "Families and Family Therapy" -
\Salvador Minuchin
Integrative family therapy -
\"Fred & Bunny Duhl, David Kantor
expressive, experiential, nonverbal
spacialization and family sculpting
Milan "Rituals" -
\engaged family in behaviors that violated the family rules
Positive Connotations -
\"Milan group
Compliments to family members for devising the symptom to maintain homeostasis"
Invariant Prescription -
\"Milan group
used to counteract the ""dirty game"" or power struggle between parents and child"
,Self Focus -
\Bowen's term for ability to see one's own role in interpersonal processes
More-of-the-same solutions are promoted and maintained by -
\"Family Rules
MRI Brief Therapy"
Pre-Session Change -
\"Solution-focused therapy
Changes client made between time he/she set up appointment and first session -
represents momentum"
Paradoxical Injunction -
\"Strategic therapy technique
Directive to continue with maladaptive and symptomatic behavior - if follow, then
admitting they have control over the symptom; if rebels, they give up the maladaptive
behavior"
Cybernetics - definition, components -
\"Refers to control mechanisms that provide feedback to the primary system
Cybernetic systems consist of frameworks which function according to the laws of
recursiveness, feedback, and self-correction"
Boundary interface -
\regions between each subsystem of the family and between the family and its
suprasystem
Properties of boundaries -
\permeability, selectivity, and variability
Circular causality -
\Circular or mutual causality in which two or more people mutually influence one another
in a recursive relationship
Entropy -
\refers to a system's tendency to break down which, over time, threatens the survival of
the system
Negative entropy -
\a systemic state that emerges when a system is balanced between openness and
closedness - information is allowed to enter the system and change can occur when
appropriate
Equifinality -
\A system can reach a certain end state from a variety of different sources, conditions,
or means or from different initial states
, Equipotentiality -
\Different end states can occur from the same initial conditions
Feedback loops -
\"core of cybernetics
Self-correcting mechanisms by which families attempt to adjust deviations from the
established patterns and maintain its organizational integrity
Feedback occurs from outside the system while input occurs from inside the system"
Negative or "attenuating" feedback loops -
\Maintain stability or homeostasis (thermostat) - parents' behavior to keep children in
line
Positive or "amplifying" feedback loops -
\Attempt to change the system from it's steady state to a new steady state or balance -
reaction results in increase of the behavior
Isomorphism -
\Two or more systems or subsystems exhibit similar or parallel structures - structures or
patterns are repeated (therapist who sees a family and they reject his suggestions
becomes rejecting of his supervisor's suggestions)
Morphogenesis -
\Describes a system's tendency toward growth, creativity, change - similar in functioning
to amplifying feedback loops
Morphostasis -
\"System's tendency towards stability - function similar to attenuating or negative
feedback loops
Reduce any deviation from existing values or established system goals"
Recursiveness -
\"Reciprocal or circular causality - mutual interaction and influence
From cybernetics, meaning is derived from the relationship between individuals and
elements, each defining the other"
Decomposition Law -
\"Need to focus both on what passes between individuals and what goes on within the
individuals
All behavior is communication - one cannot NOT communicate"
Cognitive Maps -
\"Models by which incoming information is perceived, understood, and stored together
Based on integration of experience - shape actions and communication"
and Answers.
Spectatoring -
\"From Masters & Johnson
- When sexual dysfunction results from preoccupation with your performance"
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule -
\Every CORRECT response is reinforced
Robber's Cave Study -
\showed that two hostile groups could b emade to get along well and even be friends if
they had a superordinate goal to work together for
Adler's biggest theory -
\Influence of birth order on core personality (first borns are most achievement-oriented)
Vaginismus -
\female experiencing painful spasms during intercourse
Cybernetics -
\study of how systems are controlled and how information feedback loops work
Double bind -
\one person receives contradictory commands from which there is no escape (MRI)
"Family Rules: Marital Quid Pro Quo" -
\Jackson's paper on marital relationships - roles that spouses develop don't just come
from gender differences, but as a result of a series of quid pro quos or mutual
exchanges
Marital schism -
\parents overly focused on their own problems, undercut each other, compete for
children's attention while failing to attend to children's needs
Marital Skew -
\"One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent;
children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that dysfunction
or schizophrenia result"
Pseudomutuality -
\"Lyman Wynne
Systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that masks conflict and blocks intimacy"
,Pseudohostility -
\"Lyman Wynne
Noisy and intense way of masking and distorting both affection and splits"
Rubber Fence Boundary -
\"Lyman Wynne
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impenetrable to information from
the outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation"
Emotional Divorce -
\"Murray Bowen
Parents whose relationship is cool and vacillates between overcloseness and over-
distance"
Differentiation of Self -
\Autonomy from one's family and ability to differentiate between one's thoughts and
feelings
Multigenerational ethical accountability -
\"Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
loyalty, trust, and relational ethics across generations"
Multidirectional Partiality -
\Therapist is accountable to everyone and solutions must be in the best interest of
everyone
Who wrote "Families and Family Therapy" -
\Salvador Minuchin
Integrative family therapy -
\"Fred & Bunny Duhl, David Kantor
expressive, experiential, nonverbal
spacialization and family sculpting
Milan "Rituals" -
\engaged family in behaviors that violated the family rules
Positive Connotations -
\"Milan group
Compliments to family members for devising the symptom to maintain homeostasis"
Invariant Prescription -
\"Milan group
used to counteract the ""dirty game"" or power struggle between parents and child"
,Self Focus -
\Bowen's term for ability to see one's own role in interpersonal processes
More-of-the-same solutions are promoted and maintained by -
\"Family Rules
MRI Brief Therapy"
Pre-Session Change -
\"Solution-focused therapy
Changes client made between time he/she set up appointment and first session -
represents momentum"
Paradoxical Injunction -
\"Strategic therapy technique
Directive to continue with maladaptive and symptomatic behavior - if follow, then
admitting they have control over the symptom; if rebels, they give up the maladaptive
behavior"
Cybernetics - definition, components -
\"Refers to control mechanisms that provide feedback to the primary system
Cybernetic systems consist of frameworks which function according to the laws of
recursiveness, feedback, and self-correction"
Boundary interface -
\regions between each subsystem of the family and between the family and its
suprasystem
Properties of boundaries -
\permeability, selectivity, and variability
Circular causality -
\Circular or mutual causality in which two or more people mutually influence one another
in a recursive relationship
Entropy -
\refers to a system's tendency to break down which, over time, threatens the survival of
the system
Negative entropy -
\a systemic state that emerges when a system is balanced between openness and
closedness - information is allowed to enter the system and change can occur when
appropriate
Equifinality -
\A system can reach a certain end state from a variety of different sources, conditions,
or means or from different initial states
, Equipotentiality -
\Different end states can occur from the same initial conditions
Feedback loops -
\"core of cybernetics
Self-correcting mechanisms by which families attempt to adjust deviations from the
established patterns and maintain its organizational integrity
Feedback occurs from outside the system while input occurs from inside the system"
Negative or "attenuating" feedback loops -
\Maintain stability or homeostasis (thermostat) - parents' behavior to keep children in
line
Positive or "amplifying" feedback loops -
\Attempt to change the system from it's steady state to a new steady state or balance -
reaction results in increase of the behavior
Isomorphism -
\Two or more systems or subsystems exhibit similar or parallel structures - structures or
patterns are repeated (therapist who sees a family and they reject his suggestions
becomes rejecting of his supervisor's suggestions)
Morphogenesis -
\Describes a system's tendency toward growth, creativity, change - similar in functioning
to amplifying feedback loops
Morphostasis -
\"System's tendency towards stability - function similar to attenuating or negative
feedback loops
Reduce any deviation from existing values or established system goals"
Recursiveness -
\"Reciprocal or circular causality - mutual interaction and influence
From cybernetics, meaning is derived from the relationship between individuals and
elements, each defining the other"
Decomposition Law -
\"Need to focus both on what passes between individuals and what goes on within the
individuals
All behavior is communication - one cannot NOT communicate"
Cognitive Maps -
\"Models by which incoming information is perceived, understood, and stored together
Based on integration of experience - shape actions and communication"
