Contextual Family Therapy - MFT Exam
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).
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).
