Amftrb exam (2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers (detailed & elaborated)
actual exam 2025 test!!
Modernism - -Goal: to identify the truth of the world and of human behavior
epistemology: therapists as experts who takes charge of and sets goals for therapy
--Modern Systemic assumptions - -Problems are contextually based, existing in a system,
circular rather than linear causality
families move through normative stages of development
symptoms are metaphorical
symptoms are system-maintained and system-maintaining
necessity of 2nd order change
correct family structure
--Ludwig von Bertalanffy - -Hungarian biologist and creator of general systems theory
--Wiener - -creator of cybernetics
--Gregory Bateson - -English anthropologist and ethnologist; first applied concepts of
cybernetics to social and behavioral sciences
--Don Jackson - -pioneer in family therapy; described families as "cybernetically rule-
governed systems"
--Boundaries - -patterns of behaviors that define the relationships in the system and
characterizes the relationships
--Causality - -circular- problems occur by a number of different factors that maintain the
system
--1st order change - -minor structural change in a system, the change does not stay for long
when the family comes under change they go away
actual exam 2025 test!!
Modernism - -Goal: to identify the truth of the world and of human behavior
epistemology: therapists as experts who takes charge of and sets goals for therapy
--Modern Systemic assumptions - -Problems are contextually based, existing in a system,
circular rather than linear causality
families move through normative stages of development
symptoms are metaphorical
symptoms are system-maintained and system-maintaining
necessity of 2nd order change
correct family structure
--Ludwig von Bertalanffy - -Hungarian biologist and creator of general systems theory
--Wiener - -creator of cybernetics
--Gregory Bateson - -English anthropologist and ethnologist; first applied concepts of
cybernetics to social and behavioral sciences
--Don Jackson - -pioneer in family therapy; described families as "cybernetically rule-
governed systems"
--Boundaries - -patterns of behaviors that define the relationships in the system and
characterizes the relationships
--Causality - -circular- problems occur by a number of different factors that maintain the
system
--1st order change - -minor structural change in a system, the change does not stay for long
when the family comes under change they go away
