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AMFTRB NATIONAL EXAM 2|| REAL EXAM WITH
ALL 300+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+|| LATEST AND COMPLETE
UPDATE 2024-2025 WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS||
ASSURED PASS!!
With which two models does the Haley-Madanes model derive? - ANSWER|
strategic and sructural
The 4 stages of haley-Madanes Therapy - ANSWER| 1. Social Stage
2. Problem stage
3. Interactional Stage
4. Goal-setting stage
Directives
Incongruous Hierarchies (Haley-Madanes) - ANSWER| Created when children
use symptoms to try to change their parents.
Haley-Madanes Interventions - ANSWER| Dramatizations
Pretending
Make-believe Play
Directives
Structure of Original Milan Model - ANSWER| 1. Presession- team formed an
initial hypothesis
2. session- hypothesis validated and modified
3. Intersession- team met alone to form an intervention
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4. Intervention- therapist returned to deliver intervention, either a positive
connotation or ritiual, which was given in for of statement together with
prohibition against change, using paradox to counter resistance to change.
5. post-session discussion- team analysis of sx and formulation of plan for next
session
What is positive connotation? - ANSWER| Milan systemic group, a complex
paradoxical reframing technique that includes all family members and the system
itself. each family member's contribution to problem is reframed as an effort to
solve problems and help met the family's needs
ritual - ANSWER| Milan systemic intervention that enhances a positive
connotation or require family to exaggerate or violate family rules. Ex: to
exaggerate positive connotation, family ma be asked to thank symptomatic
member for having the problem.
What is equifinality - ANSWER| cybernetic principle where similar outcome may
result from many different initial events. Ex: depression caused from biochemical
imbalances or traumatic life experiences.
What is Equipotentiality - ANSWER| When things with a common origin can go
in very different directions of development i.e the same clinical intervention
yielding very different outcomes.
What is a feedback loop? - ANSWER| circular mechanism whereby feedback is
reintroduced into the system in a looping chain of events that influence one another
Positive feedback loop - ANSWER| Flow of info back into the system that works
to amplify deviations, which increases instability and facilitates change toward
meeting new goals. positive feedback is not homeostatic.
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negative feedback loops - ANSWER| Corrective info that flows back into the
family system that serves to minimize deviation, keep the system functioning
within the prescribed limits, and discourage change. Negative feedback is
homeostatic.
What is the Beck Depression Inventory? - ANSWER| used to screen for
depression and to measure behavioral manifestations and severity of depression
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
-Explore previous attempts to solve
problem
5. Selecting and making behavioral interventions
Reframing, paradoxical interventions,
restraining techniques, positioning
6. Termination
AMFTRB NATIONAL EXAM 2|| REAL EXAM WITH
ALL 300+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A+|| LATEST AND COMPLETE
UPDATE 2024-2025 WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS||
ASSURED PASS!!
With which two models does the Haley-Madanes model derive? - ANSWER|
strategic and sructural
The 4 stages of haley-Madanes Therapy - ANSWER| 1. Social Stage
2. Problem stage
3. Interactional Stage
4. Goal-setting stage
Directives
Incongruous Hierarchies (Haley-Madanes) - ANSWER| Created when children
use symptoms to try to change their parents.
Haley-Madanes Interventions - ANSWER| Dramatizations
Pretending
Make-believe Play
Directives
Structure of Original Milan Model - ANSWER| 1. Presession- team formed an
initial hypothesis
2. session- hypothesis validated and modified
3. Intersession- team met alone to form an intervention
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4. Intervention- therapist returned to deliver intervention, either a positive
connotation or ritiual, which was given in for of statement together with
prohibition against change, using paradox to counter resistance to change.
5. post-session discussion- team analysis of sx and formulation of plan for next
session
What is positive connotation? - ANSWER| Milan systemic group, a complex
paradoxical reframing technique that includes all family members and the system
itself. each family member's contribution to problem is reframed as an effort to
solve problems and help met the family's needs
ritual - ANSWER| Milan systemic intervention that enhances a positive
connotation or require family to exaggerate or violate family rules. Ex: to
exaggerate positive connotation, family ma be asked to thank symptomatic
member for having the problem.
What is equifinality - ANSWER| cybernetic principle where similar outcome may
result from many different initial events. Ex: depression caused from biochemical
imbalances or traumatic life experiences.
What is Equipotentiality - ANSWER| When things with a common origin can go
in very different directions of development i.e the same clinical intervention
yielding very different outcomes.
What is a feedback loop? - ANSWER| circular mechanism whereby feedback is
reintroduced into the system in a looping chain of events that influence one another
Positive feedback loop - ANSWER| Flow of info back into the system that works
to amplify deviations, which increases instability and facilitates change toward
meeting new goals. positive feedback is not homeostatic.
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negative feedback loops - ANSWER| Corrective info that flows back into the
family system that serves to minimize deviation, keep the system functioning
within the prescribed limits, and discourage change. Negative feedback is
homeostatic.
What is the Beck Depression Inventory? - ANSWER| used to screen for
depression and to measure behavioral manifestations and severity of depression
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
-Explore previous attempts to solve
problem
5. Selecting and making behavioral interventions
Reframing, paradoxical interventions,
restraining techniques, positioning
6. Termination
