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MFT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #7 2024A fundamental tenant of a Constructivist perspective is that language shapes reality. In
Solution-Focused Therapy this notion was... - correct answer Accentuated to stating
that language creates reality
A 42 year-old woman reports panic attacks most nights. Her recent history includes the
breakup of her engagement to be married. Her father died when she was 9 and she has
lived alone with her mother throughout most of her childhood and adult life. The
clinician's next steps should be: - correct answer Assess her impulse control to rule out
the possibility of harming herself or anyone else.
You are consulting with a colleague who is working in therapy with a 2nd grade child
who has been referred by his school counselor for bullying other children. She has been
both verbally and physically aggressive towards other children. Using Dreikur's concept
of Mistaken Goals, you might suggest she respond to this child by... - correct answer
Assessing for and showing empathy towards the ways in which the child herself has
been hurt.
A family is referred to Kathy A. By the school for therapy because John, age 12, is
disruptive at school and has been diagnosed as having ADD. The mother in her phone
conversation with Kathy says how reluctant they are to start therapy again since the
previous therapist had spend most of the time talking about the mother being too
inconsistent and overprotective and the father being angry and uninvolved. They felt
blamed and that the therapist did not offer anything of use to address John's disruptive
behavior at school or at home. After meeting with the family and reading the medical
reports, Kathy agreed with the diagnosis and decided to help the family and John
understand ADD and teach them how to cope with it. She decided to use what model? -
correct answer Psychoeducational approach
One of the defining characteristics of the therapist's stance of the Narrative Therapy
movement is its emphasis on... - correct answer Neutrality
A therapist seeing an extended family consisting of a grandmother, mother and 2
daughters, notices that the grandmother speaks to her daughter with a certain disdain.
This seems similar to the way the older daughter speaks to her sister. This is an
example of: - correct answer Isomorphism
Both the Constructivist and Milan Systemic therapists agree that - correct answer Living
systems are characterized by loop formations rather than linear cause-effect
All of the following are true of the Behavioral Model, EXCEPT:
A. Systems descriptions are inferred from observable and represent motor constructs
B. The main interest is in observable, operationalizability and a molecular view
C. Resistance is rejected, there is a concern with long-term maintenance
,D. Therapy is more likely to engage in subsystem analysis: causal factors that can be
tested are hypothesized. - correct answer Systems descriptions are inferred from
observable and represent motor constructs
You are on the road when you call a client to make a scheduling change. You forget to
hide your number and inadvertently your personal cell number is logged on your client's
phone. A couple weeks later, this same client texts you with a couple of follow-up
questions from your last session. The most ethical response is to: - correct answer In a
supportive manner, inform the client that the answers he/she is looking for require more
than a text and would best be discussed in their next session.
Mr. & Mrs. W. Were worried about their youngest daughter. They described her as
isolating herself from her friends, acting somewhat listless, having a significant weight
gain and not sleeping. These symptoms best describe: - correct answer Persistent
Depressive Disorder
A feminist approach to family therapy includes all EXCEPT:
A. A recognition of women's subordination and inferior social position
B. An awareness of attempts to counteract the ways in which family therapy may
reinforce women's subordinate position
C. The idea that family therapists often have stereotypical expectations of men and
women
D. The idea that family therapy attempts to empower and stregthen all family members -
correct answer D. The idea that family therapy attempts to empower and strengthen all
family members
A therapist is working with a family, and hypothesizes that a scapegoated child's
behavior may be his/her means of loyally acting out his/her parents' need for expressing
anger (a cycle that may have connections to behavioral sequences begun generations
before). This therapist is most likely assessing from the.. - correct answer Contextual
model
When a Structural therapist assesses a family and notes that boundaries are weak and
there is excessive proximity among members, the therapist is suggesting: - correct
answer Enmeshment
The philosopher Foucault exposed how various discourses with a society - correct
answer Are dehumanized, objectified, and marginalized by various social groups who
are in power over the other groups
Studies show that children of gay and lesbian couples compared with straight couples
have: - correct answer The same problems
A 12 year old boy told a friend in school that he was going to kill himself so that he didn't
have to tell his parents about a recent poor test grade. The friend told a teacher who
contacted the mother who became very upset over the phone. The teacher
,recommended an urgent appointment with a local family therapist. The boy has an older
sister who has been in treatment for depression and a father who abuses alcohol.
Before his initial interview with the boy, the clinician learns from the parents through a
phone call, that although he did ultimately go home and tell his parents about the poor
grade, he has repeated his suicide threat to other people. From this new information the
clinician concludes: - correct answer It is not good practice to determine the risk level
from this information alone.
Which of the following are similarities between strategic and structural model?
A. They both consider the impact of the life-cycle stage
B. They use in-session interactions to assess the family and emphasize process over
content
C. The treatment is symptom oriented
D. All of the above - correct answer D. All of the above
An MFT in a 3-person group practice keeps her client PHI on her office computer. She
uses clinical practice management software
That keeps most information she needs conveniently organized. In addition to all
insurance information, the software does her billing
Via direct internet connection to a payer clearinghouse, resulting in quick turnaround of
payments, and also allows for email
Communications with the client, keeping the emails organized and associated with the
client record. The software also provides a text
Entry area to record the session information. However, during her original clinical
training, she developed the habit of scribbling a few
Notes on a pad next to her as she conducted her therapy sessions, which she still does.
Her computer is password protected, she
Uses an encryption technology for all client and insurance company electronic/email
transactions and her handwritten session notes
Are kept on - correct answer The 'covered entity' is actually the Professional
Corporation, since clinical work is performed by and paid for by the corporation. All
"workforce" workers must abide by the HIPAA Security Rule
Which of the following assumptions about systemic functioning is not accepted as valid
and useful?
A. Families who are having problems are stuck in a phase of the family development life
cycle.
B. The presenting problems are a result of family rules which are an ineffective way of
dealing with stress.
C. Problems are the result of ineffective interactional and organizational rules in the
family rather than the result of individual
Pathology.
D. Assessment focuses on linear vs. Circular causality - correct answer Assessment
focuses on linear vs. Circular causality
, The Contextual model regards which of the following dimensions as the most essential
and powerful in family relations? - correct answer Relational ethics
A Facebook friend asks you to be their therapist having heard from her many friends
what a great and helpful therapist you are.The
Most ethical response is to: - correct answer Refer the client to a colleague
A couple comes to therapy because they feel their sex life is not satisfying. The female
reports that she is always anxious and is
Unable to reach orgasm and feels that her husband thinks she is an inadequate sex
partner. In the first session, a Bowenian therapist
Would do all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Assess the inequality of power in the couple system and the extended family.
B. Assess the family life cycle phase.
C. Assess the level of anxietv/stress in the couole svstem and the extended familv.
D. Assess the level of differentiation of the couple, in relation to their extended families.
- correct answer A. Assess the inequality of power in the couple system and the
extended family
Internal Family Systems believes all of the following EXCEPT:
A. There are no "bad" parts and the goal of therapy is not to eliminate
Parts but instead to help them find their non-extreme roles.
B. Systems theory can be applied to the internal system.
C. Changes in the internal system will affect changes in the external system and vice
versa.
D. Communication theory can be applied to the internal system and with the ultimate
goal of a "parts party" as a means of
Integrating the four parts. - correct answer D. Communication theory can be applied to
the internal system and with the ultimate goal of a "parts party" as a means of
integrating the four parts
All of the following are examples of insider models of assessment except:
A. SAFE
B. GARF
C. FES
D. FACES III - correct answer B. GARF
The goal of EFT is - correct answer To foster the creation of a secure bond between
partners. To create a shift in partner's interactional positions and initiate new cycles of
interaction. To expand and re-organize key emotional responses- the music of the
attachment dance.
Which school of thought has recently emerged placing a renewed emphasis on
language and meaning rather than a strict adherence to the more common theories of
family therapy? This school of thought is more pluralistic, crossing disciplinary
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