Contextual Family Therapy - MFT Exam
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Contextual Family Therapy - Correct answers✔✔A theory and therapeutic model developed by
Boszormenyi-Nagy based on the ethical dimension of family relationships. The family maintains
invisible, intergenerational loyalties, which members hold in their personal ledgers. Problems in
relationships are thought to result either from an attempt to maintain or change the balance sheet
of what members owe to one another.
Facts - Correct answers✔✔Stable. Physical attributes that individuals are born with. (i.e. gender,
ethnicity, race, disabilities, cognitive functioning, etc.) and contextual circumstances of
upbringing.
Psychology - Correct answers✔✔Internal experience with the world including thoughts, desires.
emotions and meaning.
Transactions - Correct answers✔✔Refers to the patterns of organization and dynamics within the
individual's family.
Relational Ethics - Correct answers✔✔Responsibility each individual has for impact that their bx
has on others. Endorses consideration for best interests of others in family.
Loyalty - Correct answers✔✔Internalized expectations of and obligations to his/her FOO.
Assumed to exert a powerful influence over individual's functioning.
Legacy - Correct answers✔✔Attributes of qualities that are attributed to an individual as an act
of being born to parents.
, Entitlement - Correct answers✔✔What individuals are inherently due from others in family.
What is earned from others based on bx toward them.
Ledger - Correct answers✔✔Keeping track of debts and balance debts and entitlements.
Equitable Assymmetry - Correct answers✔✔Children are not able to take care of themselves and
are entirely dependent on their parents, making them both either entitled or vulnerable, based on
circumstances.
Merit - Correct answers✔✔If parents are ethical and fair, they earn this which rewards them with
loyalty from childhood as they mature into adults.
Filial Loyalty - Correct answers✔✔Children are expected to have an inherent loyalty to parents
"Repay" parents by caring for them in old age
Revolving Slate of Justice - Correct answers✔✔Multigenerational transmission of destructive
entitlement in which one generation harms the next generation despite that there is no
wrongdoing.
Split Loyalty - Correct answers✔✔Occurs when parents create a situation in which a child must
offer loyalty to only one parent at the cost of loyalty to the other parent. Or when a parent and
grandparents expect the child to join them in opposition of the other parent.
Debts or Filial Responsibility - Correct answers✔✔As an account for the child's experience of
the degrees of fairness and ethical consideration from their parents toward them, they will either
be _____(resulting in destructive entitlement) or _____ _______ (resulting in loyalty).
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Contextual Family Therapy - Correct answers✔✔A theory and therapeutic model developed by
Boszormenyi-Nagy based on the ethical dimension of family relationships. The family maintains
invisible, intergenerational loyalties, which members hold in their personal ledgers. Problems in
relationships are thought to result either from an attempt to maintain or change the balance sheet
of what members owe to one another.
Facts - Correct answers✔✔Stable. Physical attributes that individuals are born with. (i.e. gender,
ethnicity, race, disabilities, cognitive functioning, etc.) and contextual circumstances of
upbringing.
Psychology - Correct answers✔✔Internal experience with the world including thoughts, desires.
emotions and meaning.
Transactions - Correct answers✔✔Refers to the patterns of organization and dynamics within the
individual's family.
Relational Ethics - Correct answers✔✔Responsibility each individual has for impact that their bx
has on others. Endorses consideration for best interests of others in family.
Loyalty - Correct answers✔✔Internalized expectations of and obligations to his/her FOO.
Assumed to exert a powerful influence over individual's functioning.
Legacy - Correct answers✔✔Attributes of qualities that are attributed to an individual as an act
of being born to parents.
, Entitlement - Correct answers✔✔What individuals are inherently due from others in family.
What is earned from others based on bx toward them.
Ledger - Correct answers✔✔Keeping track of debts and balance debts and entitlements.
Equitable Assymmetry - Correct answers✔✔Children are not able to take care of themselves and
are entirely dependent on their parents, making them both either entitled or vulnerable, based on
circumstances.
Merit - Correct answers✔✔If parents are ethical and fair, they earn this which rewards them with
loyalty from childhood as they mature into adults.
Filial Loyalty - Correct answers✔✔Children are expected to have an inherent loyalty to parents
"Repay" parents by caring for them in old age
Revolving Slate of Justice - Correct answers✔✔Multigenerational transmission of destructive
entitlement in which one generation harms the next generation despite that there is no
wrongdoing.
Split Loyalty - Correct answers✔✔Occurs when parents create a situation in which a child must
offer loyalty to only one parent at the cost of loyalty to the other parent. Or when a parent and
grandparents expect the child to join them in opposition of the other parent.
Debts or Filial Responsibility - Correct answers✔✔As an account for the child's experience of
the degrees of fairness and ethical consideration from their parents toward them, they will either
be _____(resulting in destructive entitlement) or _____ _______ (resulting in loyalty).
