MFT Basic Marital and Family Therapy 5

Question 1

When treating a couple where one partner has disclosed domestic violence, which therapeutic approach is CONTRAINDICATED?

Accepted Answer

Conjoint couples therapy

Answer

Conjoint couples therapy is contraindicated in active domestic violence situations because it may increase the victim's risk of retaliation and can be used by the abuser to gather information.

Question 2

In Bowen theory, when a child absorbs the most parental anxiety and develops symptoms as a result, this is called:

Accepted Answer

Family projection process

Answer

The family projection process describes how parents transmit their undifferentiation and anxiety to one or more children, impairing that child's differentiation of self.

Question 3

A therapist working from a feminist family therapy lens would MOST likely challenge which assumption of traditional family therapy?

Accepted Answer

That gender and power inequities are central to family dysfunction

Answer

Feminist family therapists critique the field for historically ignoring how patriarchal structures and gender inequalities are embedded in and perpetuate family dysfunction.

Question 4

The concept of 'therapeutic neutrality' in the Milan systemic approach means the therapist:

Accepted Answer

Avoids forming alliances with any family member or hypothesis

Answer

Milan neutrality means the therapist avoids privileging any single family member's account or becoming locked into one explanatory hypothesis, remaining curious and open to multiple meanings.

Question 5

A couple in therapy has reached an impasse where neither partner is willing to change. Which SFBT technique would be MOST appropriate to address this?

Accepted Answer

Exception-finding questions

Answer

Exception-finding questions direct clients to identify times when the problem is absent or less severe, revealing existing resources and successful patterns they can amplify.

MFT Exam Practice Test

MFT Exam Practice Test

MFT Basic Marital and Family Therapy 5