MFT Exam-
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Alcholism - Medical referral - Therapy to increase responsible behavior
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Lithium -
Word Association Lithuim
Bipolar -
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Adolescent
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Legal parent - School, family, friends
Age appropriate behavior -
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Rapid change in situation -
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Crisis Intervention -
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Children -
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Evaluate interacting with family
Play therapy -
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Depression -
Word Association: Depression
Cognitive therapy - Substance abuse
Suicide - Grieving -
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Borderline -
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Supportive -
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Develop -
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Piaget- Kohlberg- Psychosexual Stages -
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Emphasis on client -
Word Association: Emphasis on client
Rogerian -
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Disabled -
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Support systems - Piaget -
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Divorce -
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Consideration of parents AND children -
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Grief -
Word Association: Grief
Grief People, places or things
Kubler-Ross stages
Potential for suicide
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Fatigue -
Word Association: Fatigue
Physical examination - Depression
Dysthymia
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Drives and Defenses -
Word Association: Drives and Defenses
Psychodynamic -
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Medical Condition -
Word Association: Medical Condition
Refer - Word Association: Token economy
- Word Association: Behavior modification
- Word Association: Depression
- Word Association: Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Premarital
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Hidden agendas - Family history
Disengagement/Enmeshment - Referral
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Establish rapport with client
Written release from the client - Religion
- Spiritual beliefs determine behavior
- Runaway Reasons:
- Abuse - Relationships with parents
- Dealing with beliefs
- Cognitive Theory
- Seniors
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Abuse (physical, emotional, criminal)
Support systems: Health - Finance - Sexuality
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Intimacy concerns - Family history
Expectations - Single Parent
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Support group - Coping skills - Work
Family - Social responsibilities - Substance Abuse
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Symptoms of addiction - Duration
Physical addiction - Support - Suicide
- Plan - Means - Isolation - Report
- Separation Individuation
- Mahler Object Relations Theory
- Assessment
- Cultural considerations - Ethics
- Weight
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Self concept - Physical examination
Danger to life - Group Therapy
- Take all issues to group for resolution
- Abuse
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Signs of abuse - Potential for more abuse
Protection from abuse - Violence
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Police involvement - Legal involvement
Safety for victim - Obsessive
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Medical examination - Delirium
Drug withdrawal -
1940s
- Theodore Lidz
- Theodore Lidz
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Study of families of Schizophrenics
 Introduced concepts of
• Schism = Division of family into two antagonistic and competing groups
• Skew = One partner in marriage dominates the family - 1950s
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Nathan Ackerman
Gregory Bateson
Milton Erickson
Carl Whitaker
Murray Bowen
- Nathan Ackerman
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 Wrote, The Psychodynamics of Family Life, 1958
 Began treating client mental disorders through family process dynamics - Gregory Bateson
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 Formulated controversial yet influential theory of dysfunctional
communication called:
• Double bind: Two seemingly contradictory messages may exist on
different levels and lead to confusion or schizophrenic behavior on the
part of the individuals receiving those messages. - Milton Erickson
- Established “Brief Therapyâ€
- Carl Whitaker
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 Risked violating the conventions of traditional psychotherapy
 Published work in dual therapy or conjoint couple therapy -
Murray Bowen
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 Began holding therapy sessions with all family members present as part of
a research project on Schizophrenics
 Elaborated on the theory that previous generations’ influence mental health
of families
 Emotional Reactivity
 Discovered when troubled families were brought together they had difficulty
maintaining their identities
• Described this as an undifferentiated family ego mass
• Worked to help them establish appropriate relationship boundaries and
avoid projecting or triangulating - 1960s
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Jay Haley
Salvador Minuchin
Virginia Satir
John Bell - Jay Haley
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 Began to formulate Strategic Family Therapy
 Emphasis on gaining and maintaining power during treatment
 Founding editor of the Family Process, the first journal in the field of family
therapy - Salvador Minuchin
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Used his own form of family therapy with urban slum families
 Reduced recidivism rate for delinquents in school
 Trained local members of the black community as paraprofessional family
therapists
 Cultural differences often make it difficult for white middleclass therapists to
relate successfully to urban African American and Hispanics - Virginia Satir
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Social work background
 Gained prominence in the Mental Research Institute
 Unique in being the only woman pioneer of family therapy
 Focused on the importance of self-esteem, compassion and congruent
expression of feelings - John Bell
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Started using group therapy as a basis for working with families
 Structural program of treatment that conceptualized family members as
strangers - 1970s
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R.D. Laing
Rachel Hare-Mustin - R.D. Laing
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Coined the term “mystificationâ€
• Describes how some families mask what is going on between family
members by giving conflict and contradictory explanations of events
• “Presence of a conflict of some kind that is being evaded.†- Rachel Hare-Mustin
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Wrote article, Feminist Approach to Family Therapy, in 1978
 Goal of therapy is to involve the whole family
 Facilitate the growth of a strong woman who has enhanced control over
her resources
 Increase the ability of women to work together politically to make societal
changes - 1980s
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Women came to the forefront:
 Monica McGoldrick
 Carolyn Attneave
 Peggy Papp
 Peggy Penn
 Cloe Madanes
 Froma Walsh
 Betty Carter - 1990s
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Steve de Shazer & Insoo Berg
Bill O’Hanlon
Michael White & David Epston -
ADLERIAN THERAPY
“inferiority
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refers to a sense of inadequacy. He theorized that every person has a
sense of inferiority and strives for superiority. - aculturation
- the process by which immigrant group members adjust to the culture of their new country.
- Alliance
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1.In the structural and stategic models, a bond or affliiation between two or more family memebers. Alliances differ from coalitions in that they are generally within a subsystem and not hiddden.
2. In the domestic violence literature, refers to the redemptive phase of the abuse cycle, in which the perpetrator promises never to act violently again and the victim agrees to participate in that goal. -
Antibilidinal Ego
- From object relations theory,that part of the ego is formed from interactions with the rejecting object.
- Anaylsis of Variance (ANOVA)
- A method of statistical analysis which enables researchers to determine the likelihood that a variable being measured (dependant variable) is associated with a second variable(independent variable) by chance alone.If the deviation (variance) from the norm by(frequency of association expected by chance alone) is sufficently large, the variables are likely to be casually related.
- Allopoetic Systems
- Originated by postmodern Chilean biologist, Maturana:systems that can be controlled from the outside, such as machines.
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Autopoetic Systems
- Originated by postmodern Chilean biologist, Maturana, systems that are self-organizing and selfmaintaining,such as biological and human systems. Autopoetic Systems can be described by second-order cybernetics.
- As If Structure
- From symbolic-experimental therapy, family members are encouraged to freely experiment as if they were in the role of the other, so long as they understand that the role-play is symbolic. The process allows fammily members to alternately experiment and return to thir secure roles.
- Antilibidinal System
- From object relations theory, a repressed system within the ego characterized by aggression, rage, and contempt.
- Baseline
- A beginning observable, stable performance measure against which change, partuclarly behavioral change, can be measured.
- Balancing Power
- Equalizing access to power in a couple which is overly organized by a hierarchy.
- Battle for Initiative
- Formulated by Whitaker (symbolic-experiential therapy), the Battle for Initiative follows the battle for structure. In this second battle, the family takes back from the therapist its authority to make choices about what is discussed and about decisions that affect their lives.
- Behavioral Parent Training (BPT)
- A program for training parents in the use of contigency management to modify or extinguish unwanted behaviors and reinforce desirable behaviors in children
- Behavioral Family Therapy (BFT)
- A theory and therapeutic model developed by Patterson, Reid, and others, based on principles of learning and behavior change. In BFT, all family members are seen as part of the problem and symptoms aere reformulated into concrete observable behaviors, each of which will either be rewarded or extinguished.
- Behavioral Exchange Theory
- From behavioral family therapy, a way of describing relationships in terms of costs and benefits. Functional relationships have plentiful access to rewards and relatively few costs, while distressed relationships have a scarcity of rewards relative to costs.
- Bilateral Transference
- A therapeautic stance in symbolic-experiential therapy in which the therapist adopts the language, accent, rhythm, or posture of the family.
- Bilateral Pseudo-Therapy
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From symbolic-experimental therapy, the tendency in some families for family members to be therapists to one another. Therapists demand that the therapy turned over to them, asserting that the family has failed in its efforts at self-therapy.
(see Battle for Structure & Battle for Initiative) - Bicultural
- People who belong to more than one culture and who are able to alternate between the cultures, adjusting temporarily to each depending on the circumstance.
- Binuclear Family
- Families in which the parents are divorced, have remarried, and formed two intact nuclear families.
- Bi-Modal Feedback Mechanism
- From Ashbly, the rule-bound mechanism by which a system remains unchanged so long as the internal or external environment is stable, but when the fluctuation exceeds the range of stability the system must respond in some new way. The system either breaks down or it makes a leap into new levels of functioning. The change results in a new set of patterns which, like the old pattern, is also bound by rules, and it, too, remains unchanged, so long as the environment is stable.
- Biobehavioral
- Biological factors that influence behavior, e.g. depression, that is caused, in part, by faulty neurochemistry.
- Boundary Interface
- The regions between each subsystem of the family and between the family and the suprasystem. In family systems therapy this interface is referred to as the familial boundary.
- Brief Family Therapy
- A model of problem-focused and time-limited therapy developed by the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA. Milton Erickson and others.
- Boundary Making
- A structual therapy technique in which the therapist establishes a functional semi-permeable (clear) boundary where either a rigid or diffuse boundary had existed previously.