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MFT Licensing Exam: Domain 1, Deck 2: The Practice of Systemic Therapy, Exams of Psychology

MFT Licensing Exam: Domain 1, Deck 2: The Practice of Systemic Therapy 2024

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MFT Licensing Exam: Domain 1, Deck 2:
The Practice of Systemic Therapy
Constructivist Theory - Theory of Change -
Change requires inner motivation rather than environmental or external sources.
Necessary: individuals must challenge their patterned cognitions in order to allow for
change to occur.
Underpinning: Problems arise when individuals become stuck in unconscious patterns
then turn into habits
Constructivist Theory - Role of the Therapist -
Therapist listens for patterned cognitions from client (bc they represent client's
core beliefs) TX also guides client to find meaning in their lives as a way to reduce
problems
Constructivist Theory - Main Concepts/Treatment Goals -
Main Concepts: Clients seek out experiences that validate their belief system
COP - Core Ordering Processes - the way clients organize worldviews, define identity,
and relate to others:
1. Reality
2. Value
3. Self
4. Power
Treatment Goals:
- Develop coping/problem solving skills
- Gain insight of self and others
- Develop meaningful life direction
Constructivist Theory - Interventions -
Basic Centering Techniques - breathing exercises
Problem solving skills
Pattern work - identifying unhealthy patterns
Role Playing
Contextual Theory - Theory of Change -
Change occurs by promoting a sense of mutual understanding, responsibility, and
trust between family members. This allows for a facilitation of dialogue thus making
change possible.
Contextual Theory - Role of the Therapist -
- Work through emotional conflicts that are being avoided in order to create a
sense of fairness and support among family members
- TX does not take a neutral or impartial stance
Contextual Theory - Main Concepts -
Trust, loyalty, and mutual support/responsibility - key elements that holds family
relationships together
Problems in families and indiv's occur when there is an imbalance of giving and taking
Relationally balanced family = well-functioning family
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The Practice of Systemic Therapy

Constructivist Theory - Theory of Change - ✔Change requires inner motivation rather than environmental or external sources. Necessary: individuals must challenge their patterned cognitions in order to allow for change to occur. Underpinning: Problems arise when individuals become stuck in unconscious patterns then turn into habits Constructivist Theory - Role of the Therapist - ✔Therapist listens for patterned cognitions from client (bc they represent client's core beliefs) TX also guides client to find meaning in their lives as a way to reduce problems Constructivist Theory - Main Concepts/Treatment Goals - ✔Main Concepts: Clients seek out experiences that validate their belief system COP - Core Ordering Processes - the way clients organize worldviews, define identity, and relate to others:

  1. Reality
  2. Value
  3. Self
  4. Power Treatment Goals:
  • Develop coping/problem solving skills
  • Gain insight of self and others
  • Develop meaningful life direction Constructivist Theory - Interventions - ✔Basic Centering Techniques - breathing exercises Problem solving skills Pattern work - identifying unhealthy patterns Role Playing Contextual Theory - Theory of Change - ✔Change occurs by promoting a sense of mutual understanding, responsibility, and trust between family members. This allows for a facilitation of dialogue thus making change possible. Contextual Theory - Role of the Therapist - ✔- Work through emotional conflicts that are being avoided in order to create a sense of fairness and support among family members
    • TX does not take a neutral or impartial stance Contextual Theory - Main Concepts - ✔Trust, loyalty, and mutual support/responsibility - key elements that holds family relationships together Problems in families and indiv's occur when there is an imbalance of giving and taking Relationally balanced family = well-functioning family

Multidirectional partiality - focuses on the best interest of each individual to promote relational fairness. Ex. father should not make a choice that would positive for him but harmful to spouse or children Contextual Theory - Treatment Goals - ✔- Take responsibility and accountability for one's own behaviors and actions

  • Be able to acknowledge current and past injustice
  • Free oneself from the loyalties within a family that damage the well-being of the family
  • Develop fairness within relationships Contextual Theory - Interventions - ✔Must serve the best interest of everyone in the family Each family member is held accountable for their FAIRNESS towards others. Adult children are encouraged to look at their parents as humans struggling with their own problems. Cybernetics Systems Theory - Theory of Change - ✔Change occurs as family beliefs are challenged and the family's basic beliefs are reworked. Consists of frameworks which function according to laws of recursiveness, feedback and self-correction. Cybernetics Systems Theory - Role of the Therapist - ✔Therapist observes flow of information (feedback and communication) within a family system. Cybernetics Systems Theory - Main Concepts - ✔Boundaries Circular Causality - determines where a problem started; one event causes another event to occur at another time Entropy - system can break down over time [Negative Entropy - systemic state balanced between open and closedness. Info can be screened out when needed] Feedback Loops: Self-correcting mechanisms during which families attempt to adjust to any change from established patterns to maintain homeostasis Positive Feedback Loops: loops try to change the system from current stable state to a new stable state. They support growth and change. Negative Feedback Loops: loops try to keep system at a stable state by maintaining homeostasis. Thermostat. Homeostasis is disrupted when this loop isn't working Homeostasis: the tendency of a system to resist change which is maintained thru negative feedback loops Morphogenesis: system's tendency towards change Morphostasis: system's tendency towards stability Recursiveness: A system's interaction with it's environment and other people or events Structures: aspects of a system that are relatively static but can be changed. Cybernetics Systems Theory - Treatment Goals - ✔Family beliefs are challenged, and the family's basic beliefs are reworked Cybernetics Systems Theory - Interventions - ✔Observe feedback loops that occur within family system Challenge communication that occurs within system dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) - Theory of Change - ✔A treatment often used for borderline personality disorder that incorporates both cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness elements. Aims to change behavioral, emotional,

Helps client understand and experience emotions within safety of therapy session Assists client to not fear emotions that they typically dismiss, but make productive use of the emotions. Emotionally Focused Therapy - Key Concepts - ✔Often used with couples struggling to engage/communicate Develops new ways to interact as a couple and to foster bonds between couples Examines couple's internal emotional experience of relatedness and how partners engage Focuses on: 1. Relationships as attachment bonds

  1. A need for a safe therapeutic alliance
  2. A non-pathologizing view of emotions and indiv's
  3. Emotion as the agent of change.
  4. Change involves a corrective emotional experience of the self. Emotionally Focused Therapy - Treatment Goals - ✔Be more adaptive with feelings, memories, thoughts and physical sensations that were previously avoided. Develop new kinds of interactions within the couple system Emotionally Focused Therapy - Interventions - ✔De-escalation phase Restructuring Consolidation/Integration Feminist Theory - Theory of Change - ✔Change occurs by recognizing disempowering social forces and empowering the client Feminist Theory - Role of the Therapist - ✔Client & therapist are view as equals - non-blaming approach Assists client in recognizing disempowering forces or influences in order to empower the client TX encourages client's efforts to find the power they need to change their own lives. Feminist Theory - Main Concepts - ✔- Problems are viewed in a socio-political and cultural context
  • Can be used with eating disorders, body image problems, relationship issues, depression, anxiety and to explore self-identity
  • Client is viewed as the expert on his/her own life
  • Individual change best occurs through social change
  • Gender is at the core of the therapeutic process
  • Symptoms are viewed as survival mechanisms
  • Feminists did not buy into Bowen's concept of differentiation - viewed as a way to elevate male attributes over female's Feminist Theory - Interventions - ✔Create equal relationships within families Gender Role Analysis Self-Disclosure Assertiveness Trainings