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MFT EXAM QUESTIONS FROM VOLINI STUDY GUIDE 2024 -14

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MFT EXAM QUESTIONS FROM VOLINI STUDY GUIDE 2024 #14

Individuality and togetherness - correct answer each individual needs companionship
and 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

Genogram - correct answer

Process questions - correct answer questions aimed to slow individual down,
decreasing emotionality and increasing rationality as the individual becomes more
aware of how stress and anxiety influence behavior (Bowen)

Going home again - correct answer intervention encourage ct to go home and resolve
any conflicted relationships

Displacement stories - correct answer Guerin's intervention meant to help individuals
create distance between themselves and their problems and encourage rationality by
having them reflect on another couple's conflict as opposed to their own - Bowen

Coaching - correct answer therapist's role with clients according to Bowen

The "I" position - correct answer use of "I" statements to express thoughts & feelings

Relationship experiments - correct answer intervention that directed clients to
experiment with different ways of behaving and responding to one another, means to
help clients become aware of systemic processes by understanding how their behaviors
impact others - Bowen

Person-to-person relationships - correct answer two people relating without triangulating
another , use of I statements - Bowen

3 phases of Multigenerational Family Therapy - correct answer 1. Assessment Phase
2. The Genogram Phase
3. The Differentiation Phase

The Assessment Phase (Bowen) - correct answer history taking to understand the
family system & members, assess for patterns of togetherness & individuality by
exploring family of origin, presence of triangles, & levels of differentiation

The Genogram Phase (Bowen) - correct answer therapist and clients co-construct a
family diagram

The Differentiation Phase (Bowen) - correct answer reduce anxiety & increase levels of
differentiation, informed by the genogram & family history

Which category does Contextual Family Therapy fall under? - correct answer
Transgenerational Models

, Definition of Contextual Family Therapy - correct answer applies principles of
psychoanalytic theory to the family system, acknowledges past generations influence

Founder of Contextual Family Therapy - correct answer Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy

Focus on Contextual Family Therapy - correct answer fairness & relational ethics

2 primary characteristics of high functioning families (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer
reliability & trustworthiness

Entitlement (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer what individuals are inherently due from
others in their family as well as what is earned from others based upon behavior toward
them

Ledger (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer how individuals keep track of and balance
debts and entitlements

Facts (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer stable & physical attributes that individuals
are born with & the contextual circumstances of their upgbringing

Psychology (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer a person's internal experience of the
world, (thoughts, desires, emotions, & meaning), as facts occur externally to the
individual psychology develops internally in the individual

Relational ethics (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer responsibility that each family
member has for the impact of their behaviors on others

Loyalty (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer an individual's internalized of & obligations
to his family of origin, exerts a powerful influence over the individiual's functioning

Legacy (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer certain attributes or qualities that are
attributed to an individual as an account of being born to his parents

Equitable asymmetry (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer children are not able to card
for themselves & are entirely dependent upon their parents, making them vulnerable or
entitled based upon the circumstances of their upbringing

Merit (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer earned when parents are responsible & ethical
with the equitable asymmetry withing the parent-child relationship, parents are rewarded
with loyalty from therr childhood as they mature into adults

Filial loyalty (Contextual/Nagy) - correct answer children are inherently loyal to their
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