AMFTRB MFT ACTUAL TEST PAPER
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
FULL SOLUTION
●● Subjective Units of Discomfort ( SUDS )
Answer: A scale used by behavioral therapists on which the client's rate
their level of anxiety to a stimulus or situation .
●● Sexual Dysfunction
Answer: An impaired physiological response preventing a person from
full sexual functioning .
●● Restraining Techniques
Answer: From MRI strategic , a paradoxical therapeutic technique used
when the family seems ambivalent about changing . The therapist warns
the family of the dangers of change , restrains them from trying to
change , or asks them to change slowly . Thus , the therapist aligns with
the side of the ambivalence that resists change so that the family will
align with the side that wishes to change .
●● Psychology
Answer: From contextual theory , what happens within a person such as
thoughts , fantasies , emotions , and the meanings that he / she ascribes
to the Facts of his / her life .
,●● Multigenerational Transmission Process
Answer: In Bowenian family therapy , the process by which roles ,
patterns , emotional reactivity , and family structure are passed from one
generation to another . Poorly differentiated individuals tend to marry
one another and over several generations produce offspring who are
increasingly less differentiated and as a result suffer from severe mental
disorders including schizophrenia .
●● Visitor
Answer: From solution - focused therapy one of three ways to
characterize the client's level of participation and commitment to change
. A visitor does not bring a specific problem to therapy and does not have
a commitment to participating productively in treatment .
●● Behavioral Parent Training ( BPT )
Answer: A program for training parents in use of contingency
management to modify or extinguish unwanted behaviors and reinforce
desirable behaviors in children . - Rules & Org . -Clear instructions -
Proix ' fund lach , -Ignore " bod behaver - Charts & pts systems
●● Circularity ( Circular Causality )
Answer: The notion held by the Milan systemic group that causality in
families cannot be thought of as a simple , single cause and effect
relationship ( linear causality ) . Instead , events , behaviors , and inter
actions are seen in a more complex way , as mutually influencing one
,another ( feedback loops ) . Each is the effect of a prior cause and in turn
influences future behaviors . Family system events create an endless (
and beginning - less ) circular chain . In this model it is meaningless to
identify an individual as having caused or started a problem . Instead ,
all elements of the problem coexist and are reciprocally reinforcing . The
problem could not be maintained if any one element were to be removed
.
●● Concurrent Couples Therapy
Answer: Couples therapy in which one therapist works with both
spouses at different times .
●● Binuclear Family
Answer: Families in which the parents are divorced , have remarried ,
and formed two intact nuclear families .
●● Third - Order Change for a
Answer: Gregory Bateson's term for a dramatic transformation in
thinking . ( See First - Order Change and Second - Order Change ) Temp
Shift in system dyn . 7 change the rules of the system .
●● Suprasystem
Answer: A higher - level system , such as a community , in which other
systems are components
, ●● Social Constructivist Family Therapy
Answer: A group of postmodern therapeutic approaches based on the
concept that reality is an intersubjective phenomenon that is constructed
in conversation . The theories have been referred to as : postmodern ,
collaborative , constructivist , narrative , reflexive , and second order
cybernetic . Reality Constructed through lang .
●● Sacrifice Intervention
Answer: A closing statement in a Milan systemic ( early Milan ) session
that includes a statement of paradox . The person with the symptom is
characterized as being in the service of the homeostasis . This
intervention tends to overcome resistance by causing a rebellion against
the symptom .
●● Quantitative Research
Answer: A research method that emphasizes experimentation , large
samples , data collection , statistical analysis , objectivity , and
verification . Quantitative research is typically used to test hypotheses (
confirmatory research ) .
●● Primary Reinforcer
Answer: From the operant conditioning paradigm , biologically
determined reinforcers such as food and sex .
●● Parallel ( or Good Faith ) Contract
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
FULL SOLUTION
●● Subjective Units of Discomfort ( SUDS )
Answer: A scale used by behavioral therapists on which the client's rate
their level of anxiety to a stimulus or situation .
●● Sexual Dysfunction
Answer: An impaired physiological response preventing a person from
full sexual functioning .
●● Restraining Techniques
Answer: From MRI strategic , a paradoxical therapeutic technique used
when the family seems ambivalent about changing . The therapist warns
the family of the dangers of change , restrains them from trying to
change , or asks them to change slowly . Thus , the therapist aligns with
the side of the ambivalence that resists change so that the family will
align with the side that wishes to change .
●● Psychology
Answer: From contextual theory , what happens within a person such as
thoughts , fantasies , emotions , and the meanings that he / she ascribes
to the Facts of his / her life .
,●● Multigenerational Transmission Process
Answer: In Bowenian family therapy , the process by which roles ,
patterns , emotional reactivity , and family structure are passed from one
generation to another . Poorly differentiated individuals tend to marry
one another and over several generations produce offspring who are
increasingly less differentiated and as a result suffer from severe mental
disorders including schizophrenia .
●● Visitor
Answer: From solution - focused therapy one of three ways to
characterize the client's level of participation and commitment to change
. A visitor does not bring a specific problem to therapy and does not have
a commitment to participating productively in treatment .
●● Behavioral Parent Training ( BPT )
Answer: A program for training parents in use of contingency
management to modify or extinguish unwanted behaviors and reinforce
desirable behaviors in children . - Rules & Org . -Clear instructions -
Proix ' fund lach , -Ignore " bod behaver - Charts & pts systems
●● Circularity ( Circular Causality )
Answer: The notion held by the Milan systemic group that causality in
families cannot be thought of as a simple , single cause and effect
relationship ( linear causality ) . Instead , events , behaviors , and inter
actions are seen in a more complex way , as mutually influencing one
,another ( feedback loops ) . Each is the effect of a prior cause and in turn
influences future behaviors . Family system events create an endless (
and beginning - less ) circular chain . In this model it is meaningless to
identify an individual as having caused or started a problem . Instead ,
all elements of the problem coexist and are reciprocally reinforcing . The
problem could not be maintained if any one element were to be removed
.
●● Concurrent Couples Therapy
Answer: Couples therapy in which one therapist works with both
spouses at different times .
●● Binuclear Family
Answer: Families in which the parents are divorced , have remarried ,
and formed two intact nuclear families .
●● Third - Order Change for a
Answer: Gregory Bateson's term for a dramatic transformation in
thinking . ( See First - Order Change and Second - Order Change ) Temp
Shift in system dyn . 7 change the rules of the system .
●● Suprasystem
Answer: A higher - level system , such as a community , in which other
systems are components
, ●● Social Constructivist Family Therapy
Answer: A group of postmodern therapeutic approaches based on the
concept that reality is an intersubjective phenomenon that is constructed
in conversation . The theories have been referred to as : postmodern ,
collaborative , constructivist , narrative , reflexive , and second order
cybernetic . Reality Constructed through lang .
●● Sacrifice Intervention
Answer: A closing statement in a Milan systemic ( early Milan ) session
that includes a statement of paradox . The person with the symptom is
characterized as being in the service of the homeostasis . This
intervention tends to overcome resistance by causing a rebellion against
the symptom .
●● Quantitative Research
Answer: A research method that emphasizes experimentation , large
samples , data collection , statistical analysis , objectivity , and
verification . Quantitative research is typically used to test hypotheses (
confirmatory research ) .
●● Primary Reinforcer
Answer: From the operant conditioning paradigm , biologically
determined reinforcers such as food and sex .
●● Parallel ( or Good Faith ) Contract
