MFT National Exam: Domain 1-Practice Of Marriage And
Family Therapy Questions And Answers
Collaborative Couple's Therapy Correct Answer: Dan
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Collaborative Couple's Therapy Correct Answer: Based on the assumption that conflict is inevitable
and emphasis should be placed on how couples handles that conflict.
Collaborative Couple's Therapy Correct Answer: 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 Answer: 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 Answer: Was actively involved in the development of strategic therapy while
working at MRI.
Milton Erickson Correct Answer: Most well known for his use of unusual and non-traditional
techniques such as hypnosis.
Milton Erickson Correct Answer: Believed in the power of the unconscious mind and proposed that
hypnotic traces could make people more open to therapy.
Milton Erickson Correct Answer: Known for confusion technique which occupied the conscious mind
so that the unconscious mind could take over.
Milton Erickson Correct Answer: His therapeutic metaphors involved storytelling by the therapist to
create a metaphor for the client's problem that could assist understanding.
Milton Erickson Correct Answer: 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 Answer: 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 Answer: 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 Answer: 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. [Show Less]