MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST
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SOLUTION GRADED A+
● IAMFC. Answer: International association of marriage and family
counselors - believes marriage and family counseling is a specialty of
knowledge and experience.
● Nathan Acraman. Answer: A child psychiatrist who wrote 'the family
as a social and emotional unit'. Referred to as the grandfather of family
therapy and founder of psychoanalytical family theory.
● Psychoanalytic family theory. Answer: Stresses that one thing causes
another (caused linear causality or cause effect model). Often uses object
relations.
● Analytic Objections Relations therapy. Answer: Suggests that a
person's family origin gets in the way of the person changing.
● Introjection. Answer: Taking a parent's perception as your own.
● Introjects. Answer: Imprints or memories from the past based on
unresolved relationship with the parents.
, ● Splitting. Answer: When a young child turns an object into all good or
all bad and internalizes the perception.
● Virginia Sateer. Answer: Wrote conjoined family therapy (the therapist
joins with the family to improve family functioning). Used four styles of
dysfunctional communication.
● Placater. Answer: Tries to please everyone in the family.
● The blamer. Answer: Insists that everything is everyone else's fault.
● The super reasonable analyzer. Answer: Emotionally detached, calm,
cool and prone to intellectualization.
● Detractor. Answer: Totally removed and talks about things totally
irrelevant.
● Carl Whitaker. Answer: Another important family counselor known
for working with two or more family members.
● Murray Bowen. Answer: Observed a client functioning appropriately
in the hospital but becoming dysfunctional when placed in the family
system.
CERTIFICATION PAPER 2026 FULL
SOLUTION GRADED A+
● IAMFC. Answer: International association of marriage and family
counselors - believes marriage and family counseling is a specialty of
knowledge and experience.
● Nathan Acraman. Answer: A child psychiatrist who wrote 'the family
as a social and emotional unit'. Referred to as the grandfather of family
therapy and founder of psychoanalytical family theory.
● Psychoanalytic family theory. Answer: Stresses that one thing causes
another (caused linear causality or cause effect model). Often uses object
relations.
● Analytic Objections Relations therapy. Answer: Suggests that a
person's family origin gets in the way of the person changing.
● Introjection. Answer: Taking a parent's perception as your own.
● Introjects. Answer: Imprints or memories from the past based on
unresolved relationship with the parents.
, ● Splitting. Answer: When a young child turns an object into all good or
all bad and internalizes the perception.
● Virginia Sateer. Answer: Wrote conjoined family therapy (the therapist
joins with the family to improve family functioning). Used four styles of
dysfunctional communication.
● Placater. Answer: Tries to please everyone in the family.
● The blamer. Answer: Insists that everything is everyone else's fault.
● The super reasonable analyzer. Answer: Emotionally detached, calm,
cool and prone to intellectualization.
● Detractor. Answer: Totally removed and talks about things totally
irrelevant.
● Carl Whitaker. Answer: Another important family counselor known
for working with two or more family members.
● Murray Bowen. Answer: Observed a client functioning appropriately
in the hospital but becoming dysfunctional when placed in the family
system.
