MFT Exam: Chapter 3 Transgenerational
Models Qs & As
Who asserted that the fundamental human drive was the need to be in relationship, not the
gratification of drives Correct Ans-Fairbairn
Who worked as a child analyst exploring the function of Freudian instincts? Correct Ans-
Melanie Klein
- another influential theorist of object relations
Who extended Klein's work from individuals to groups? Correct Ans-Bion, Ezriel, and Turquet
In the early 1970s, who described the fundamental human need for attachment and the
destructive effects of early separation from important caregivers? Correct Ans-John Bowlby
Insight is the process of clients.... Correct Ans-gaining an understanding of the underlying,
unconscious dynamic issues that affect their relationships
Working through is the processes of... Correct Ans-translating those nights into new and
more productive ways of behavior and interacting
The hallmark of psychoanalytic therapy -- both individual and family -- is the use of... Correct
Ans-transference to foster insight
Transference is... Correct Ans-a psychoanalytic concept that describes the client's
unconscious tendency to attribute to other family members and to the therapist unresolved
drives, attitudes, feelings, and fantasies from previous (often parental) relationships and reenact
them in the therapy session.
, Reenacting repressed experiences makes the unconscious memories available for _________ by
the therapist. Correct Ans-Interpretation
Interpretations are the therapist's.... Correct Ans-hypotheses given as statements to the
family, about the historic underlying causes of current difficulties
The goal of interpretation is to help make.. Correct Ans-the unconscious material available to
the family for conscious understanding or insight
Countertransference Correct Ans-is the therapist's unconscious emotional reactions to the
client or family, which derive from the therapist's own history
Whose work combines intergenerational and object relations approaches to family therapy?
Correct Ans-James Framo
Framo's work with families begins with the idea that... Correct Ans-the human need for
acceptance and approval from one's parents is so strong that the child will sacrifice his/her own
ego identity to maintain the relationship.
Objects Correct Ans-Repeated interactions with caretakers, individuals unconsciously
internalize representations of their parents or caretakers.
Introject Correct Ans-internalized objects
- usually experienced as being either good or bad
The external object can be experienced in one of three ways... Correct Ans-1) ideal object:
leads to feelings of satisfaction
2) rejecting object: leads to anger
3) an exciting object: leads to longing
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