MFT Clinical Exam (Theories Of Psychotherapy) – Q&A
Adlerian Therapy theory of change ✔️Ans - increase client's self
awareness
challenging and modifying fundamental premises, life goals, and basic
concepts
Adlerian Therapy Treatment goals ✔️Ans - challenge premises and life
goals
develop socially useful goals and increase social interests
increase sense of belonging
Adlerian Therapy Concepts and Interventions ✔️Ans - Inferiority - the
source of human striving
Early recollection (assessment tool, events before age 10)
Family Constellation (family dynamics when client was young)
Lifestyle Assessment : questionnaire
Dream interpretation - an open pathway to true thoughts, emotions, and
actions
Summary - sharing the result of assessments as narrative
Role-Playing (MIDDLE STAGE OF THERAPY)
Guided Imagery (MIDDLE STAGE OF THERAPY)
Encouragement
Adlerian phases of Treatment beginning ✔️Ans - Establish person to
person relationship
Help clients become aware of assets and strengths
Complete Assessments
Share Summary
Focus on dynamics that shaped sense of self, inferiority and world
Adlerian Therapy phase of treatment middle ✔️Ans - Encourage self
understanding through interpretation
,Through therapist's optimism, overcome insecurity
Collaboratively explore how to become deeply connected in social context
turn dysfunctional styles into more functional socially beneficial ones
Adlerian Therapy phases of treatment end ✔️Ans - Put insights into
practice
encourage to take risks with new behaviors
act "as if " they are the people they want to be
Adlerian Therapy clue words ✔️Ans - socially useful goals
Inferiority
Family Constellation
Early Recollection
role playing
belonging
Object Relations Therapy theory of change ✔️Ans - change occurs
through reparative experiences within therapeutic relationship and
through new insight and modification of object relation pathology
Object Relations Role of Therapist ✔️Ans - Neutral
Emphasis on transference/counter transference
Therapist is a new and good object
Object Relations Treatment Goals ✔️Ans - reparative experiences
build new internal structures
Gain insight how past relationships impact functioning
improve relationships with self and others
Object Relations Key concepts ✔️Ans - Objects :persons in external
world
Internalization
Self and Object Representation
Ego
Splitting
Projection
Projective Identification (ONLY OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY)
Introjection
, Object Relations phase of treatment beginning ✔️Ans - Establish
holding environment
Build rapport through listening
exploration of client's experience
express empathy and neutrality
Object Relations phase of treatment middle ✔️Ans - insight and growth
through interpretation
confront resistance and defense mechanisms
focus on transference/counter transference
identify/process projective identification
Object Relations phase of treatment End ✔️Ans - Work through
termination and abandonment issues
Consolidate interpretations
Review insights gained
Attachment based Therapy theory of change ✔️Ans - change occurs
through past and current relational attachments and trauma in the
environment of healing, secure and reliable relationships
Attachment-based Therapy Role of Therapist ✔️Ans - Provide
sufficiently secure base
Create secure, accepting, non-judgemental environment
comfort with therapist and environment enables client to share traumatic
experiences and explore attachment pattern
Attachment-based Therapy Treatment Goals ✔️Ans - Raise awareness
of problematic behavior and emotional patterns formed in early childhood
as attempts to attach to caregivers
Repair capacity to regulate affects
Resolve emotional or social disruptions
Improve quality of attachment with others
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