MFT Exam Questions And Answers From Volini Study Guide
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Individuality and togetherness Correct Answer: each individual needs
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independence and anxiety is experienced when these two needs polarize the individual, balance is
achieved with self-differentiation
Differentiation of Self Correct Answer: This concept refers to an individual's capacity to balance
thinking with feeling, (individuality with togetherness). High differentiation = less reactivity and low
differentiation = high reactivity
Triangles Correct Answer: a person in a relationship pulls in a third party to create the illusion of
emotional closeness that they are not receiving from the other individual in the relationship,
decreasing anxiety by spreading it across a third party
Nuclear Family Emotional System Correct Answer: another name for Undifferentiated Family Ego
Mass
Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass Correct Answer: (Nuclear Family Emotional System) An excess of
emotional reactivity, anxiety, and fusion within a family system
Family Projection Process Correct Answer: The concept identifies that individuals with limited
emotional resources are likely to project their needs onto others in the family.
Multigenerational Transmission Process Correct Answer: This term refers to the emotional forces in
families that continue over the years in interconnected patterns, transmitting down from one
generation to the next.
Sibling Position Correct Answer: Bowen endorsed that an individual's personality development will be
highly influenced by his or her position in the sibling birth order. This also plays a role in how children
are chosen as the object for the family projection process.
Emotional Cutoff Correct Answer: A problematic manner in which individuals deal with unresolved
issues through a process of separation, isolation, withdrawal, running away, or denying the
importance of one's parental family.
Societal Emotional Process Correct Answer: The impact of social influences on family functions.
Individuals with higher levrls of self-differentiation are less vulnerable to destructive societal
influences such as sexism and discrimination.
Goals of Multigenerational Family Therapy Correct Answer: 1. decrease anxiety
2. increase levesl of differentiation in as many family members as possible
detriangulate Correct Answer: families will automatically attempt to triangulate the therapist, so
therapist remains neutral & differentiated, to derease emotionality across the family& make room for
constructively resolving conflict.
nonanxious presence Correct Answer: Bowen - therapist remains differentiated and models
nonreactivity...
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