MFT national exam: questions 2023
.Adler - ANSWER--Early 1900's.
-Identified role others and society have on personality development.
-Launched Child Guidance Movement.
.Bertrand Russel - ANSWER--1920's
-Theory of Logical Types~ defined systems, within defineable systems, within defineable...
MFT national exam: questions
2023
.Adler - ANSWER--Early 1900's.
-Identified role others and society have on personality development.
-Launched Child Guidance Movement.
.Bertrand Russel - ANSWER--1920's
-Theory of Logical Types~ defined systems, within defineable systems, within defineable systems.
.Bowen Assessment - ANSWER-Genogram - Symbolic chart of family. Tracks multi-generational family
processes and tracks changes in triangles.
.Bowen Diagnosing - ANSWER-Non-pathologizing and systemic focus.
.Bowen Differentiation - ANSWER-Differentiated individuals are able to react to the world rationally and
enter into relationships while balancing competing needs for belonging and individuality.
Opposite is emotionally fused and ruled by emotions.
.Bowen Displacement Story - ANSWER-A technique for helping family members achieve sufficient
distance to see their own roles in family system. Story would be about another family with similar
problems.
.Bowen Dysfunction - ANSWER-Comes from lack of differentiation. Symptoms come from when stress
exceeds a persons ability to handle it or when the level of anxiety exceeds the system's ability to bind it.
.Bowen Emotional Cut-Off - ANSWER-Minimizing contact with family. It may decrease anxiety but does
not resolve fusion. May be denial of importance of family and an exaggerated sense of independence.
,.Bowen Family Projection Process - ANSWER-Undifferentiated parents transmit immaturity to children.
When stress overwhelms, one parent may become emotionally distant, the other may become overly
involved with the child.
.Bowen Goals of Therapy - ANSWER-1. Decrease Anxiety
2. Increase levels of differentiation.
Focus on working through underlying process and conflicts, not symptom reduction.
.Bowen Going Home Again - ANSWER-Technique that encourages clients to go home and experience
family of origin without emotional reactivity. Researches emotional cut-offs. identifying triangles, etc.
.Bowen Multi-generational Transmission Process - ANSWER-Emotional responses are passed down
through generations. Least differentiated child will marry undifferentiated person and subsequent
generations will be less differentiated.
.Bowen Nuclear Family Emotional Process (Undifferentiated Ego Mass) - ANSWER-People tend to select
spouses that are the same level of differentiation. Less differentiation = More fusion =
1. Reactive emotional distance
2. Dysfunction in spouse
3. Overt marital conflict
4. Project unto children
.Bowen Person to Person Relationships - ANSWER-When one is differentiated and can talk rationally to
another person without blaming the other or triangulating.
.Bowen Primary Contributor - ANSWER-Murray Bowen
.Bowen Process Questions - ANSWER-Designed to slow people down, diminish anxiety, and start them
thinking. Structured to encourage clients to think about the processes within the family and about their
roles.
, .Bowen Pseudo-Self - ANSWER-An individual who is not differentiated and may be fused with another
person. Does not reason from own internal values but borrows from others.
.Bowen Relationship Experiment - ANSWER-A technique that helps clients experience what it's like to act
counter to their usual emotionally driven responses. Helps people discover their ability to move against
the ways emotions are driving them.
.Bowen Societal Emotional Process - ANSWER-Society influences how families function. Bowen believed
that the more differentiated individuals and families resist destructive social influences (sexism, racism,
etc.)
.Bowen Solid-Self - ANSWER-An individual who is more differentiated and is able to function based on
personally defined set of values, beliefs, convictions and life principles.
.Bowen Therapist Position - ANSWER-I position, coaches to make "I statements". Therapist may model
this behavior while remaining neutral and not emotionally reactive to avoid triangulation. *Non-anxious
presence*
.Bowen Therapist Stance - ANSWER-Coach - Helps clients start process of self-discovery and
differentiation.
.Bowen Therapy Structure - ANSWER-1. Assessment Phase - Patterns of togetherness and individual
exploration of family of origin.
2. Genogram Phase
3. Differentiation Phase
.Bowen Triangles - ANSWER-Smallest stable unit in system. Forms out of the anxiety of a 2-person
system; to stabilize the relationship a third party is drawn in.
.Characteristics of a Double Bind - ANSWER-1. Communication involves 2 or more people in an
important emotional relationship.
2. Pattern of communication and the relationship is a repeated experiences.
3. Involves a command to not do something with a threat of punishment.
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