MFT NATIONAL LICENSING EXAM (2025) ACTUAL EXAM
(TESTING REAL EXAM QUESTIONS) AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS (MULTIPLE CHOICES) |COMPLETE SOLUTIONS |A+
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Question 1
All of the following are considered communication theorists EXCEPT:
A) Watzlawick
B) Satir
C) White
D) Haley
E) Jackson
Correct Answer: C) White
Rationale: The provided text explicitly states, "All of the following are
considered communication theorists EXCEPT: ... C: White. White
focused on meaning where communication therapists focused on
behavior."
Question 2
During a session with a couple, a husband states to the therapist that his
wife often nags and belittles him. The therapist's intervention is to give the
wife homework in which she is to only say positive things to her husband and
abstain from any negative comments. When she appears to be negative or
belittling to her husband, he is to put his hand up and say "Stop". A feminist
therapist would be critical of the above technique because it:
A) Gives the husband more power.
B) Appears to be hierarchical.
,C) Is therapist driven.
D) All of the above.
E) Is a behavioral intervention.
Correct Answer: D) All of the above.
Rationale: The provided text explains, "Feminists draw techniques
from other schools of family therapy such as the Narrative
approach, with a sensitivity to those that are especially empowering
and client driven. In this case, the therapist would work together to
question imbalances of power between members and the effects
these imbalances have on all family members. A feminist therapist
might then work with the couple to develop new stories using a
collaborative approach." This rationale supports all options A, B,
and C as criticisms from a feminist perspective.
Question 3
Jose and Maria bring their son, Joe, to counseling because of poor academic
performance and behavior. An initial goal that a Strategic Family Therapist
working with this family might set is to:
A) Externalize the problem.
B) Rearrange family members to imply alliance shifts.
C) Use genogram construction to help the family identify family-of-origins
patterns consciously.
D) Coach the family on improving its problem-solving skills.
E) Explore the family's narrative about Joe's behavior.
,Correct Answer: D) Coach the family on improving its problem-solving
skills.
Rationale: The provided text states, "The strategic family therapist
defines the focus of treatment as the family and its interactive
process, paying particular attention to the family's process of
problem solving."
Question 4
During the process of treatment, Mr. Medieros recognizes how he was
victimized by his parents, and that past generations were also victimized by
their parents. In recognizing this, he began to see his parents less as
monsters and more as struggling human beings, themselves acting out
invisible loyalties. Therefore, he was able to block the trans-generational
pattern of destructive entitlement and allowed the positive transmission of
relational resources. The process by which he earned entitlement by dealing
with his own issues with his own parents is called:
A) A family projection process
B) Relational ethics
C) Societal regression
D) Exoneration
E) Differentiation of self
Correct Answer: D) Exoneration
Rationale: The provided text defines "Exoneration" as "a process by
which the therapist attempts to help the client see the positive
, intent and inter-generational loyalty issues that motivate the
behavior of members of previous generations."
Question 5
Harmonious relationships are more difficult to achieve for gay and lesbian
couples primarily because:
A) They are more inherently pathological than straight couples.
B) Of shame.
C) Our society presents them with far more obstacles.
D) They have more individual problems.
E) They lack appropriate role models.
Correct Answer: C) Our society presents them with far more obstacles.
Rationale: The provided text states, "Harmonious relationships are
more difficult to achieve for gay and lesbian couples because: ... C:
our society presents them with far more obstacles".
Question 6
Mary feels threatened by the arrival of her baby sister so she pouts and
becomes temperamental. When Mary acts out this way, her father thinks she
is regressing and tries to get her to act her age by punishing and criticizing
her. Father's harshness confirms Mary's belief that her sister is displacing her.
The therapist suggests that when Mary behaves this way, the father should
ignore her. If this suggestion worked, and only the behaviors or interactions
within the system changed without a change in the governing rules, it would
be a good example of:
(TESTING REAL EXAM QUESTIONS) AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS (MULTIPLE CHOICES) |COMPLETE SOLUTIONS |A+
GRADED |100% CORRECT!!
Question 1
All of the following are considered communication theorists EXCEPT:
A) Watzlawick
B) Satir
C) White
D) Haley
E) Jackson
Correct Answer: C) White
Rationale: The provided text explicitly states, "All of the following are
considered communication theorists EXCEPT: ... C: White. White
focused on meaning where communication therapists focused on
behavior."
Question 2
During a session with a couple, a husband states to the therapist that his
wife often nags and belittles him. The therapist's intervention is to give the
wife homework in which she is to only say positive things to her husband and
abstain from any negative comments. When she appears to be negative or
belittling to her husband, he is to put his hand up and say "Stop". A feminist
therapist would be critical of the above technique because it:
A) Gives the husband more power.
B) Appears to be hierarchical.
,C) Is therapist driven.
D) All of the above.
E) Is a behavioral intervention.
Correct Answer: D) All of the above.
Rationale: The provided text explains, "Feminists draw techniques
from other schools of family therapy such as the Narrative
approach, with a sensitivity to those that are especially empowering
and client driven. In this case, the therapist would work together to
question imbalances of power between members and the effects
these imbalances have on all family members. A feminist therapist
might then work with the couple to develop new stories using a
collaborative approach." This rationale supports all options A, B,
and C as criticisms from a feminist perspective.
Question 3
Jose and Maria bring their son, Joe, to counseling because of poor academic
performance and behavior. An initial goal that a Strategic Family Therapist
working with this family might set is to:
A) Externalize the problem.
B) Rearrange family members to imply alliance shifts.
C) Use genogram construction to help the family identify family-of-origins
patterns consciously.
D) Coach the family on improving its problem-solving skills.
E) Explore the family's narrative about Joe's behavior.
,Correct Answer: D) Coach the family on improving its problem-solving
skills.
Rationale: The provided text states, "The strategic family therapist
defines the focus of treatment as the family and its interactive
process, paying particular attention to the family's process of
problem solving."
Question 4
During the process of treatment, Mr. Medieros recognizes how he was
victimized by his parents, and that past generations were also victimized by
their parents. In recognizing this, he began to see his parents less as
monsters and more as struggling human beings, themselves acting out
invisible loyalties. Therefore, he was able to block the trans-generational
pattern of destructive entitlement and allowed the positive transmission of
relational resources. The process by which he earned entitlement by dealing
with his own issues with his own parents is called:
A) A family projection process
B) Relational ethics
C) Societal regression
D) Exoneration
E) Differentiation of self
Correct Answer: D) Exoneration
Rationale: The provided text defines "Exoneration" as "a process by
which the therapist attempts to help the client see the positive
, intent and inter-generational loyalty issues that motivate the
behavior of members of previous generations."
Question 5
Harmonious relationships are more difficult to achieve for gay and lesbian
couples primarily because:
A) They are more inherently pathological than straight couples.
B) Of shame.
C) Our society presents them with far more obstacles.
D) They have more individual problems.
E) They lack appropriate role models.
Correct Answer: C) Our society presents them with far more obstacles.
Rationale: The provided text states, "Harmonious relationships are
more difficult to achieve for gay and lesbian couples because: ... C:
our society presents them with far more obstacles".
Question 6
Mary feels threatened by the arrival of her baby sister so she pouts and
becomes temperamental. When Mary acts out this way, her father thinks she
is regressing and tries to get her to act her age by punishing and criticizing
her. Father's harshness confirms Mary's belief that her sister is displacing her.
The therapist suggests that when Mary behaves this way, the father should
ignore her. If this suggestion worked, and only the behaviors or interactions
within the system changed without a change in the governing rules, it would
be a good example of:
