MFT national exam: Domain 1-Practice of
Marriage and Family Therapy ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS Dan Wiles
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS Based on the assumption that
conflict is inevitable and emphasis should be placed on how couples handles that conflict.
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS Based on the three cycles: (1)
distant and estranged. (2) oppositional where the partner is seen as the enemy. (3) collaborative
with the partner seen as an ally.
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS the therapist collaborates with
the couple to teach them to collaborate with each other and must be careful not to be drawn into
the couple's negative cycles.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Was actively involved in the development of
strategic therapy while working at MRI.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Most well known for his use of unusual and
non-traditional techniques such as hypnosis.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Believed in the power of the unconscious mind
and proposed that hypnotic traces could make people more open to therapy.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Known for confusion technique which occupied
the conscious mind so that the unconscious mind could take over.
, Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS His therapeutic metaphors involved storytelling
by the therapist to create a metaphor for the client's problem that could assist understanding.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Much of his contributions were centered on the
idea that resistance to change was a key obstacle to success in therapy.
Intervention in couple's therapy for severe anxiety or depression - CORRECT
ANSWERS One approach to ending patterns of damaging behavior is to engage and guide
the couple in role-reversal in session. This involves the non-depressed partner expressing
sadness, focusing on the loss the depression has caused the relationship, while the depressed
partner is guided to be more assertive and take on the role of providing emotional support and
care for the other partner.
Intervention in couple's therapy for severe anxiety or depression - CORRECT
ANSWERS Opening space where the non-depressed partner is instructed to back off from
some of the daily care-giving tasks this gives the depressed partner a chance to show
improvement.
Intervention in couple's therapy for severe anxiety or depression - CORRECT
ANSWERS Writing positive requests. the therapist instructs each partner to write down
complains, criticisms, and negative feelings toward the other in a notebook. At the end of the
day, each partner chooses the most important and restates it as a positive request. Letters are
exchanged, but the contents are not discussed without the therapists. Each partner should feel
free to honor any requests possible.
Betty Carter - CORRECT ANSWERS Pushed the value of considering family life cycle in
therapy. Increased recognition of other important factors related to family life cycles such as
historical documentation of family problems for the current family and past generations as well
as the impact of extended family on client' problems.
Marriage and Family Therapy ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS Dan Wiles
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS Based on the assumption that
conflict is inevitable and emphasis should be placed on how couples handles that conflict.
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS Based on the three cycles: (1)
distant and estranged. (2) oppositional where the partner is seen as the enemy. (3) collaborative
with the partner seen as an ally.
Collaborative Couple's Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS the therapist collaborates with
the couple to teach them to collaborate with each other and must be careful not to be drawn into
the couple's negative cycles.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Was actively involved in the development of
strategic therapy while working at MRI.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Most well known for his use of unusual and
non-traditional techniques such as hypnosis.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Believed in the power of the unconscious mind
and proposed that hypnotic traces could make people more open to therapy.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Known for confusion technique which occupied
the conscious mind so that the unconscious mind could take over.
, Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS His therapeutic metaphors involved storytelling
by the therapist to create a metaphor for the client's problem that could assist understanding.
Milton Erickson - CORRECT ANSWERS Much of his contributions were centered on the
idea that resistance to change was a key obstacle to success in therapy.
Intervention in couple's therapy for severe anxiety or depression - CORRECT
ANSWERS One approach to ending patterns of damaging behavior is to engage and guide
the couple in role-reversal in session. This involves the non-depressed partner expressing
sadness, focusing on the loss the depression has caused the relationship, while the depressed
partner is guided to be more assertive and take on the role of providing emotional support and
care for the other partner.
Intervention in couple's therapy for severe anxiety or depression - CORRECT
ANSWERS Opening space where the non-depressed partner is instructed to back off from
some of the daily care-giving tasks this gives the depressed partner a chance to show
improvement.
Intervention in couple's therapy for severe anxiety or depression - CORRECT
ANSWERS Writing positive requests. the therapist instructs each partner to write down
complains, criticisms, and negative feelings toward the other in a notebook. At the end of the
day, each partner chooses the most important and restates it as a positive request. Letters are
exchanged, but the contents are not discussed without the therapists. Each partner should feel
free to honor any requests possible.
Betty Carter - CORRECT ANSWERS Pushed the value of considering family life cycle in
therapy. Increased recognition of other important factors related to family life cycles such as
historical documentation of family problems for the current family and past generations as well
as the impact of extended family on client' problems.
