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MFT Comprehensive Exam – Questions & SolutionsAAMFT Clinical Fellow Correct Ans - a) AAMFT
b) A credentialed member of the AAMFT; Has met the standards for
independent clinical practice.
c) 1.Clinical membership (licensure) Eligible to apply if you have a license
and reside in an accepted state.
2. Clinical membership (evaluative) Eligible to apply if you live in a state
that doesn't license mat's or does but the license isn't accepted by the
AAMFT.
Accreditation Correct Ans - a) Program Standards
b) Certification granted to an educational institution that meets
performance standards of an institution of accreditation. Enables the
consumer to know the quality of the program.
c) The MFT program at FU is accredited by COAMFTE
*Blended Family Correct Ans - a) Divorce
b) Step-families. Separate families united by marriage or coupling which
face non-normative developmental challenges of redefining/merging roles,
rules, and rituals for a new family structure
c) Redefining the role of parenting a new step-dad will have with his new
step-children.
Boundaries Correct Ans - a) Structural Therapy
b) Invisible lines that regulate closeness and distance and exchange of
information among family members, and between families and the
environment. Diffuse - enmeshed, Rigid - disengaged, Clear - firm but
flexible
c) A Father who distances himself from a feuding Mother/daughter and
does not get involved = Rigid
Caring Day Technique Correct Ans - a) Strategic (Richard Stuart)
b) A therapist tasks a problem couple to generate a list of small positive
things that they can do to show each other that they care.
c) Each member of a couple has to come up with a list of no more than 5
concrete things they want the other to do. Has to be small and specific
things (buy flowers, give a hug, make the bed), has to be something the
, other can do, and has to be positively framed to do something, not to not do
something.
Cloe Madanes Correct Ans - a) Strategic Family Therapist
b) Together with Jay Haley, founded the Family Therapy Institute in
Washington DC. Uses playfulness, benevolent interpretation of symptoms,
humor, and metaphor in therapy.
c) A wife's reluctance to have sex with her husband is a benevolent way to
protect him from experiencing performance anxiety.
Co-dependency Correct Ans - a) Substance Abuse and Addiction
b) The problem is not only the addict but also the family and friend
network. The non-addicted family member/friend enables the addict -
inadvertent contributor to the maintenance of the problem.
c) A wife calls in to work for her hungover husband lying and telling them
that he has the flu.
Coaching Correct Ans - a) Bowenien
b) Therapist guides the process of change but does not do the work; self-
differentiation must be self-motivated and achieved.
c) Therapist may discuss facts over feelings, helping a client discover more
about their emotional reactions moving toward more differentiation
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Correct Ans - a) Evidenced Based
Behavioral
b) Examines how thoughts, feelings & situations contribute to maladaptive
behaviors; learning and practicing modified behavioral skills.
c) A client with anxiety imagines an anxiety inducing situation & practices
interaction.
Command level Correct Ans - a) Communications Theory
b) Informs the receiver about the expected or desired response. Rarely
consciously acknowledged. The highest level of communication after
content and meaning.
c) A wife tells a husband to take out the trash and he responds with "in a
minute". The injunction from the wife is to do it now, but there is a power
struggle when the husband replies in a way that is not just doing it.
*Complementarity Correct Ans - a) structural
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