MFT

Indications For Couple Therapy correct answer: When the presenting problem is clearly related to the couple's relationship; the development of problems in one partner coincided with the onset of relationship conflict; or the couple is thinking about ending their relationship and wants to resolve issues with the help of a therapist. Social Constructionism correct answer: A strand of postmodernism that is based on the assumption that knowledge is constructed through social interactions and i...

All Family Therapists.... correct answer: Look beyond the individual and toward the system and are always conceptualizing the person's struggle within the system's context Like human systems, Family therapists believe correct answer: That no individual can be understood without understanding the system to which he or she is a part of and the dynamics between various relationships within that system & no system can be understood without understanding the individual within the system Whe...

Structural therapist believe that they may effectively affiliate with a family & perhaps even actively enter into a coalition with some members against others by (2): correct answer: defending the children from parental authority Parentification is best described as - 1: correct answer: Adult assumptive role of parents to his own parents The most stressful transitions occur in the family life cycle with 3 correct answer: shift in roles of family members The principle of homeostasis h...

Collaborative Couple's Therapy correct answer: Dan Wiles Collaborative Couple's Therapy correct answer: Based on the assumption that conflict is inevitable and emphasis should be placed on how couples handles that conflict. Collaborative Couple's Therapy correct answer: Based on the three cycles: (1) distant and estranged. (2) oppositional where the partner is seen as the enemy. (3) collaborative with the partner seen as an ally. Collaborative Couple's Therapy correct answer: th...

MFT Scope of Practice correct answer: A legal term. An LMFT may: Practice psychotherapy Diagnose and treat mental disorders (in order to improve client's relationships) Administer and interpret psychological tests (as long as doing so is within the MFT's scope of competence as determined by education, training, or experience, and as long as it is directed toward improving client's relationships Privilege correct answer: A legal term. The legal right not to have confidential informatio...

Narrative correct answer: Identify unique outcomes OR/P correct answer: Insight oriented Narrative correct answer: Enlist a witness Strategic correct answer: Paradoxical interventions Gestalt correct answer: Exploring experience by description Reality Therapy correct answer: Identifying and meeting needs CBT correct answer: Finding alternatives Strategic correct answer: Restraining Existential correct answer: Telling, talking about, and naming emotional pain R...

The principal difference between variable costing and absorption costing centers on: a) whether variable manufacturing costs should be included as product costs b) whether fixed manufacturing costs should be included as product costs c) whether fixed manufacturing costs and fixed selling and administrative costs should be included as product costs d) none of these. correct answer: B General Bikes is debating which marketing research options to employ. The traditional person-to...

Detriangulation correct answer: Bowen: The process by which an individual removes self from emotional field of two others Formulation correct answer: A therapeutic hypothesis about what is responsible for creating and maintaining a client's presenting problem Process correct answer: How members of a family or group relate; in contrast to content, which is what they talk about Treatment contract correct answer: An explicit agreement between the client and therapist that specifies th...

Experiential Therapists correct answer: Would exhibit empathy and facilitate expression of feelings to help build a therapeutic relationship Parent Child Relational Problem correct answer: Given when the focus of attention is a pattern of interaction between parent and child, such as poor communication and the behavior impair family functioning. Undifferentiated family ego mass correct answer: Bowenian Term referring to intense interdependency resulting in lack of differentiation Spl...

Out of earshot of Dad, Mom points out one of his parenting inadequacies to the children. From a Contextual Family Therapy perspective, Mom's actions are evidence for correct answer: split filial loyalty Bob (45) and Marianne (38) argue about what is the proper age for their daughter Jill (14) to begin dating. Jill hears the fighting and enters the room. Marianne draws Jill into the argument to side with her against Bob. From a Bowen Systems perspective, what has occurred? correct answer: t...