MFT National Licensing Exam with 100%Verified Questions and Answers 2024/2025.
All of the following are considered communication theorists EXCEPT:
A:
... [Show More] Watzlawick
B: Satir
C: White
D: Haley - ANSWER C: White
White focused on meaning where communication therapists focused on behavior.
During a session with a couple a husband states to the therapist that his wife often nags
and belittles him. The therapist's intervention is to give the wife homework in which she
is to only say positive things to her husband and abstain from any negative comments.
When she appears to be negative or belittling to her husband he is to put his hand up
and say "Stop". A feminist therapist would be critical of the above technique because it:
A: Gives the husband more power
B: Appears to be hierarchical
C: Is therapist driven
D: All of the above - ANSWER D: All of the above
Feminists draw techniques from other schools of family therapy such as the Narrative
approach, with a sensitivity to those that are especially empowering and client driven. In
this case, the therapist would work together to question imbalances of power between
members and the effects these imbalances have on all family members. A feminist
therapist might then work with the couple to develop new stories using a collaborative
approach.
Jose and Maria bring their son, Joe, to counseling because of poor academic
performance and behavior.
A: externalize the problem
B: rearrange family members to imply alliance shifts.
C: use genogram construction to help the family identify family-of-origins patterns
consciously.
D: coach the family on improving its problem-solving skills - ANSWER D: Coach the
family on improving its problem solving skills.
The strategic family therapist defines the focus of treatment as the family and its
interactive process, paying particular attention to the family's process of problem
solving.
During the process of treatment, Mr. Medieros recognizes how he was victimized by his
parents, and that past generations were also victimized by their parents. In recognizing
this he began to see his parents less as monsters and more as struggling human
beings, themselves acting out invisible loyalties. Therefore, he was able to block the
trans-generational pattern of destructive entitlement and allowed the positive
transmission of relational resources. The process by which he earned entitlement by
dealing with his own issues with his own parents is called:
A: A family projection process
B: relational ethics
C: societal regression
D: exoneration - ANSWER D: exoneration
Exoneration is a process by which the therapist attempts to help the client see the
positive intent and inter-generational loyalty issues that motivate the behavior of
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