2022/2023 AMFTRB-MFT Terms Download to Score A
Visitor - Solution Focused: One of three ways to characterize the client's level of participation &
commitment to change.
Working Through - Psychodynamic Therapy: Insight leads client to engage in new & more
productive ways of behaving & interacting.
Vulnerability Stress Model - The notion that while some people have a predisposition or inherited
vulnerability to a mental illness, the actual manifestation of the illness is determined by life events,
particularly stressful events in the family.
Unstoried Competencies - Narrative Therapy: Those competencies that the client possesses that are
not part of his dominate story & therefore are not expressed until the dominant story is
reconstructed.
Unique Outcomes - Narrative Therapy: instances in which the client did not experience the problem
for which he seeks therapy. Exceptions (sparkling events) to counter-attack problem.
Unfinished Business - Experiential Therapy: unresolved feelings or disowned parts of self.
Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass - Bowenian Family Therapy: a phenomenon in which members
are emotionally fused, highly reactive, & structurally chaotic.
Unconditional Positive Regard - Therapeutic stance by Humanist Carl Rodgers that is used to create
a safe environment where feelings can be revealed.
Unbalancing - Structural: Designed to disrupt a dysfunctional sequence by lending greater support
to one side of a conflict that the other
, Triangulation - Bowenian: describes the process in which unresolved conflict between two people
is extended to include a third, whose loyality is fought over.
Triangle - Bowenian: the smallest stable emotional unit in a family
Transference - Psychoanalytic term to describe the client's unconscious tendency to attribute to the
therapist unresolved drives, attitudes, feelings& fantasies from previous relationships
Transactions - Contextual Theory: the patterns of family organization: hierarchy, triangles, &
transnational sequences
Tracking - Structural: an engagement technique in which the therapist participates in the existing
family dynamic, while privately noting the dysfunction
Token Economy - A behavioral program in which tokens (Secondary enforcers) are dispensed for
desirable behaviors.
Therapeutic Letters - Narrative Therapy: a procedure created by epston, used to extend the therapy
in which the therapist summarizes in writing the client;s competencies with respect to overcoming
the problem.
Therapeutic Paradox - Strategic Therapy: an intervention that entails maneuvers that appear to
contradict the goals of therapy, yet are actually designed to achieve them.
Therapeutic Double Bind - A type of paradoxical technique in which clients are instructed to
continue to have the symptom. The bind shows they can control the symptom.
Therapeutic Certificates - Narrative Therapy: Certificate given to the client announcing the client's
victory over the problem.
Visitor - Solution Focused: One of three ways to characterize the client's level of participation &
commitment to change.
Working Through - Psychodynamic Therapy: Insight leads client to engage in new & more
productive ways of behaving & interacting.
Vulnerability Stress Model - The notion that while some people have a predisposition or inherited
vulnerability to a mental illness, the actual manifestation of the illness is determined by life events,
particularly stressful events in the family.
Unstoried Competencies - Narrative Therapy: Those competencies that the client possesses that are
not part of his dominate story & therefore are not expressed until the dominant story is
reconstructed.
Unique Outcomes - Narrative Therapy: instances in which the client did not experience the problem
for which he seeks therapy. Exceptions (sparkling events) to counter-attack problem.
Unfinished Business - Experiential Therapy: unresolved feelings or disowned parts of self.
Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass - Bowenian Family Therapy: a phenomenon in which members
are emotionally fused, highly reactive, & structurally chaotic.
Unconditional Positive Regard - Therapeutic stance by Humanist Carl Rodgers that is used to create
a safe environment where feelings can be revealed.
Unbalancing - Structural: Designed to disrupt a dysfunctional sequence by lending greater support
to one side of a conflict that the other
, Triangulation - Bowenian: describes the process in which unresolved conflict between two people
is extended to include a third, whose loyality is fought over.
Triangle - Bowenian: the smallest stable emotional unit in a family
Transference - Psychoanalytic term to describe the client's unconscious tendency to attribute to the
therapist unresolved drives, attitudes, feelings& fantasies from previous relationships
Transactions - Contextual Theory: the patterns of family organization: hierarchy, triangles, &
transnational sequences
Tracking - Structural: an engagement technique in which the therapist participates in the existing
family dynamic, while privately noting the dysfunction
Token Economy - A behavioral program in which tokens (Secondary enforcers) are dispensed for
desirable behaviors.
Therapeutic Letters - Narrative Therapy: a procedure created by epston, used to extend the therapy
in which the therapist summarizes in writing the client;s competencies with respect to overcoming
the problem.
Therapeutic Paradox - Strategic Therapy: an intervention that entails maneuvers that appear to
contradict the goals of therapy, yet are actually designed to achieve them.
Therapeutic Double Bind - A type of paradoxical technique in which clients are instructed to
continue to have the symptom. The bind shows they can control the symptom.
Therapeutic Certificates - Narrative Therapy: Certificate given to the client announcing the client's
victory over the problem.
