AMFTRB NATIONAL EXAM 2025-
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What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models? -
answer Psychoanalytic and object relations
How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational
model? - answer Approximately 2 years
(Terms) insight/working through - answer Transgenerational models
multigenerational transmission process - answer 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
Family projection process - answer lack of differentiation in parents often
results in one of the parents becoming dysfunctional, immature, and fused
with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-unit is avoided, but
child's emotional growth is sacrificed. Symptoms and lack of
differentiation is transmitted from parents to children.
nuclear family Emotional System - answer Fused family that is unstable
and unable to cope with stress. Characterized by conflict and dysfunction
that are transmitted across generations.
,triangles - answer smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes
process by which two people recruit third person into system to mediate
the level of conflict or tension between them.
pseudo-self - answer person who is not differentiated may be fused with
another person. as a result they do not reason with their values but
instead borrows values of person with whom they are fused and commonly
makes emotionally reactive choices.
solid-self - answer a person who is well differentiated and is able to
function based upon a personally defined set of values, beliefs,
convictions, and life principles
Differentiation of self - answer separation of intellectual and emotional
functioning, which results in being less reactive to family system dynamics
and other members emotional states
According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3
places... - answer The marital relationship
The health of one partner (physical or mental)
In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
Bowenian Interventions - answer Differentiation of self scale
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment
Person-to-person relationships
Coaching
I Position
Extension of Bowen's model - answer Philip Guerin: elaborated on
genogram and developed the displacement story intervention.
Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
, Monica McGoldrick: extended Bowenian model to include the role of
enthnicity as a factor in the family. Feminist. Written extensively on family
life cycle. Culturally appropriate therapy.
Strategic family therapy - answer Bateson, Palo Alto group, Erickson
The Palo Alto Group - answer Jay Haley, Don Jackson, John Weakland,
William Fry
Double Bind - answer 1. Communication involves two or more people with
an important emotional relationship
2. Pattern of communication is repeated
3. Communication involves a "primary negative injunction" or a command
not to do something on threat of punishment.
4. Communication involves a second abstract injunction also under threat
of punishment that contradicts primary injunction
5. Third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents
escape.
6. Recipient becomes conditioned to respond and sequence is no longer
necessary to maintain symptom.
What was Erickson known for? - answer Paradoxical intervention and
hypnotherapy
What models are associated with the Strategic model? - answer MRI and
Haley & Madanes
What field did the Brief Therapy Center derive from? - answer MRI
What are the 6 steps of assessment and treatment from the MRI model? -
answer 1. Introduction to treatment setup
2. Inquiry into definition of the problem
3. Estimation of behaviors maintaining the problem
4. Setting the goals for treatment
2026 fully solved & updated
(100- accuracy)2025-2026 fully
solved & updated (100-
accuracy)
What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models? -
answer Psychoanalytic and object relations
How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational
model? - answer Approximately 2 years
(Terms) insight/working through - answer Transgenerational models
multigenerational transmission process - answer 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
Family projection process - answer lack of differentiation in parents often
results in one of the parents becoming dysfunctional, immature, and fused
with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-unit is avoided, but
child's emotional growth is sacrificed. Symptoms and lack of
differentiation is transmitted from parents to children.
nuclear family Emotional System - answer Fused family that is unstable
and unable to cope with stress. Characterized by conflict and dysfunction
that are transmitted across generations.
,triangles - answer smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes
process by which two people recruit third person into system to mediate
the level of conflict or tension between them.
pseudo-self - answer person who is not differentiated may be fused with
another person. as a result they do not reason with their values but
instead borrows values of person with whom they are fused and commonly
makes emotionally reactive choices.
solid-self - answer a person who is well differentiated and is able to
function based upon a personally defined set of values, beliefs,
convictions, and life principles
Differentiation of self - answer separation of intellectual and emotional
functioning, which results in being less reactive to family system dynamics
and other members emotional states
According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3
places... - answer The marital relationship
The health of one partner (physical or mental)
In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
Bowenian Interventions - answer Differentiation of self scale
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment
Person-to-person relationships
Coaching
I Position
Extension of Bowen's model - answer Philip Guerin: elaborated on
genogram and developed the displacement story intervention.
Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
, Monica McGoldrick: extended Bowenian model to include the role of
enthnicity as a factor in the family. Feminist. Written extensively on family
life cycle. Culturally appropriate therapy.
Strategic family therapy - answer Bateson, Palo Alto group, Erickson
The Palo Alto Group - answer Jay Haley, Don Jackson, John Weakland,
William Fry
Double Bind - answer 1. Communication involves two or more people with
an important emotional relationship
2. Pattern of communication is repeated
3. Communication involves a "primary negative injunction" or a command
not to do something on threat of punishment.
4. Communication involves a second abstract injunction also under threat
of punishment that contradicts primary injunction
5. Third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents
escape.
6. Recipient becomes conditioned to respond and sequence is no longer
necessary to maintain symptom.
What was Erickson known for? - answer Paradoxical intervention and
hypnotherapy
What models are associated with the Strategic model? - answer MRI and
Haley & Madanes
What field did the Brief Therapy Center derive from? - answer MRI
What are the 6 steps of assessment and treatment from the MRI model? -
answer 1. Introduction to treatment setup
2. Inquiry into definition of the problem
3. Estimation of behaviors maintaining the problem
4. Setting the goals for treatment
