Theories Of MFT Flashcards
The primary goal of Bowen family therapy is to
A) heighten emotional experiencing in the family members
B) Increase the family’s repertoire of problem-solving skills
C) Improve communication between family members
D) Increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
D) Increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
In Bowen theory, the ability to behave flexibly in the face of anxiety and to respond with autonomy is known as
A) Differentiation of self
B) Triangulation of self
C) indifferentiation of self
D) Displacement of others
A) Differentiation of self
In structural family therapy, an alliance between specific family members against a third member is called
A) Coalition
B) Accommodation
C) Association
D) Federation
A) Coalition
Scapegoat provides anxiety relief for the family and the family can not tolerate interpersonal natural stress. Role rigidity and lack of tolerance for difference can lead to symptoms that are non-verbal messages in reaction to the dysfunctional communication working in the family system. What model therapy of dysfunction are he ideas from?
A) Psychoanalytic
B) Experiential
C) Strategic
D) Bowen
B) Experiential
“Unbalancing” in Structural therapy involves
A) Realigning relationships between subsystems
B) Therapeutic neutrality
C) Re-Storting the family’s structure
D) Taking notes
D) Taking notes
Unlike Bowenian therapist’s, Experiential therapist’s will ____ then behave in alternatively provocative and supportive ways in order to help families learn to express honest emotion.
A) Encourage development of transference
B) Discourage development of transference
C) Raise the level of anxiety in the family
D) Lower the level of anxiety in the family
C) Raise the level of anxiety in the family
The goals of Experiential family therapy would NOT include:
A) Restructuring family system
B) Increased personal integrity
C) Greater freedom of choice
D) Increased sensitivity to ones needs and feelings
A) Restructuring family system
Among Experiential therapist’s, families are typically treated as
A) Systems
B) Groups of individual
C) Parent and child subsystems
D) none of the above
A) Systems
Who is NOT associated with the Transgenerational model?
A) Ackerman
B) Bowen
C) Goldenberg
D) Ivan Nagy
C) Goldenberg
According to object relations theory, children are more likely to develop a secure and cohesive of self when parents provide sufficient opportunities for
A) Idealization
B) Ego split
C) Projective identification
D) False self
A) Idealization
_____ is an interactive process in which a subject perceives an object as containing elements of the subject’s personality and evokes behaviors and feelings from the object that conforms to these perceptions.
A) Separation-Individuation
B) Transference -counter transference
C) Reciprocal interjection
D) Projective identification
D) Projective identification
Boundaries around the executive subsystem in the family are of particular importance because the family ____ is seen by Structural therapist’s as crucial to the family’s well-being.
A) Network
B) Hierarchy
C) life cycle
D) Quid pro quo
B) Hierarchy
The greatest conceptual influence in the early development of family therapy was
A) The Family life cycle
B) Social constructionism
C) Existentialism
D) Systems theory
D) Systems theory
The study of content and process in systems, particularly the analysis of the flow of information in closed systems, is known as
A) Functional analysis of behavior
B) Cybernetics of cybernetics
C) Existentialism
D) General systems theory
B) Cybernetics of cybernetics
A balanced steady state of equilibrium is known as
A) Metacommunication
B) Homeostasis
C) Morphogenesis
D) Equifinality
B) Homeostasis