MC Master of Counseling: Family and Couples Counseling 5

Question 1

A counselor working with a divorcing couple with children is MOST aligned with best practice when they:

Accepted Answer

Maintain focus on the co-parenting relationship rather than the marital grievances

Answer

In divorce counseling, the counselor's focus should shift to the co-parenting alliance and the children's well-being rather than relitigating marital grievances.

Question 2

The 'Milan Systemic' approach to family therapy is known for using:

Accepted Answer

Paradoxical injunctions and long intersession intervals with a reflecting team

Answer

The Milan model uses paradoxical interventions, long gaps between sessions (often a month), positive connotation, and a reflecting team to observe and comment on family patterns from a systemic perspective.

Question 3

A couple in therapy begins fighting intensely during a session. The therapist intervenes by having each partner slow down and describe what they are feeling physically. This technique is MOST consistent with:

Accepted Answer

Gottman's Physiological Self-Soothing and emotion regulation techniques

Answer

Gottman's approach emphasizes physiological self-soothing to reduce flooding (physiological arousal), as productive conversation is impossible when partners are in fight-or-flight mode.

Question 4

In contextual family therapy (Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy), the concept of 'relational ethics' centers on:

Accepted Answer

The balance of fairness, trustworthiness, and loyalty obligations between family members across generations

Answer

Nagy's relational ethics focuses on the ledger of give-and-take, fairness, loyalty, and entitlement that underlies family relationships and is passed across generations.

Question 5

A couple reports sexual dissatisfaction as their primary concern. According to Masters and Johnson's sex therapy model, the FIRST intervention is typically:

Accepted Answer

Prescribing sensate focus exercises to reduce performance anxiety

Answer

Sensate focus, developed by Masters and Johnson, is typically the foundational intervention in sex therapy, removing performance pressure by shifting attention from goal-oriented sex to sensory awareness.

MC - Master of Counseling Practice Test

MC - Master of Counseling Practice Test

MC Master of Counseling: Family and Couples Counseling 5