AMFTRB Exam (2025) comprehensive Questions with (Latest Questions
with Correct Answers
Question 1:
describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with
intimacy (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Answer:
Psuedomutality
Question 2:
Arguing and bickering that hides
"pathological alignments" in families A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting
both affection and splits
Prevents open communication and quality relationships (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Answer:
Psuedohostility
Question 3:
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from the
outside; boundaries bind them together in
their resistance to separation"
Appear open and flexible but are closed. (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Answer:
Rubber-Fence Boundary
Question 4:
Attachment theory. Identified the
characteristics of a child's attachment to his/her caregiver and the phases that a child
experiences when separated from the caregiver.
Answer:
John Bowlby
Question 5:
Secure Attachment
Insecure Attachment (Anxious-Avoidant) Insecure Attachment (Ambivalent-Resistant)
Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment
Answer:
Different attachment styles (Bowlby, 1949)
, Question 6:
Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couple's influence on the
development of schizophrenia in a child (1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
individuals, and the children.-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is
dependent.
Answer:
Theodore Lidzindividuals, and the children.-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and
the other is dependent.
Theodore Lidz
individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
Theodore Lidz
individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
Theodore Lidz
Question 7:
Founded by Don Jackson and
Nathan Ackerman, edited by Jay Haley (1962)
Answer:
"Family process" (peer-reviewed journal)
Question 8:
living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/
complex feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of affairs (i.e. homeostasis) →
leads to Bowlby's system of behavior control
General Systems Theory
Answer:
complex feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of affairs (i.e. homeostasis) →
leads to
Question 9:
distinct pattern of communication in which one individual receives contradictory commands
from which there is no escape (lose, lose situation)
Double bind theory
Answer:
situation)
with Correct Answers
Question 1:
describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with
intimacy (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Answer:
Psuedomutality
Question 2:
Arguing and bickering that hides
"pathological alignments" in families A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting
both affection and splits
Prevents open communication and quality relationships (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Answer:
Psuedohostility
Question 3:
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from the
outside; boundaries bind them together in
their resistance to separation"
Appear open and flexible but are closed. (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Answer:
Rubber-Fence Boundary
Question 4:
Attachment theory. Identified the
characteristics of a child's attachment to his/her caregiver and the phases that a child
experiences when separated from the caregiver.
Answer:
John Bowlby
Question 5:
Secure Attachment
Insecure Attachment (Anxious-Avoidant) Insecure Attachment (Ambivalent-Resistant)
Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment
Answer:
Different attachment styles (Bowlby, 1949)
, Question 6:
Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couple's influence on the
development of schizophrenia in a child (1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
individuals, and the children.-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is
dependent.
Answer:
Theodore Lidzindividuals, and the children.-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and
the other is dependent.
Theodore Lidz
individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
Theodore Lidz
individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
Theodore Lidz
Question 7:
Founded by Don Jackson and
Nathan Ackerman, edited by Jay Haley (1962)
Answer:
"Family process" (peer-reviewed journal)
Question 8:
living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/
complex feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of affairs (i.e. homeostasis) →
leads to Bowlby's system of behavior control
General Systems Theory
Answer:
complex feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of affairs (i.e. homeostasis) →
leads to
Question 9:
distinct pattern of communication in which one individual receives contradictory commands
from which there is no escape (lose, lose situation)
Double bind theory
Answer:
situation)
