AMFTRB Exam MFT Set 2/2 Questions
and Answers
Therapeutic Certificates - Answer-From narrative therapy , certificates given to the client or family
announcing the client's victory over the problem , which he / she shows to others and reviews , if he /
she again feels the effects of the problem .
Subjective Units of Discomfort ( SUDS ) - Answer-A scale used by behavioral therapists on which the
client's rate their level of anxiety to a stimulus or situation .
Sexual Dysfunction - Answer-An impaired physiological response preventing a person from full sexual
functioning .
Restraining Techniques - Answer-From MRI strategic , a paradoxical therapeutic technique used when
the family seems ambivalent about changing . The therapist warns the family of the dangers of change ,
restrains them from trying to change , or asks them to change slowly . Thus , the therapist aligns with
the side of the ambivalence that resists change so that the family will align with the side that wishes to
change .
Psychology - Answer-From contextual theory , what happens within a person such as thoughts ,
fantasies , emotions , and the meanings that he / she ascribes to the Facts of his / her life .
,Multigenerational Transmission Process - Answer-In Bowenian family therapy , the 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 .
Visitor - Answer-From solution - focused therapy one of three ways to characterize the client's level of
participation and commitment to change . A visitor does not bring a specific problem to therapy and
does not have a commitment to participating productively in treatment .
Behavioral Parent Training ( BPT ) - Answer-A program for training parents in use of contingency
management to modify or extinguish unwanted behaviors and reinforce desirable behaviors in children .
- Rules & Org . -Clear instructions -Proix ' fund lach , -Ignore " bod behaver - Charts & pts systems
Circularity ( Circular Causality ) - Answer-The notion held by the Milan systemic group that causality in
families cannot be thought of as a simple , single cause and effect relationship ( linear causality ) .
Instead , events , behaviors , and inter actions are seen in a more complex way , as mutually influencing
one another ( feedback loops ) . Each is the effect of a prior cause and in turn influences future
behaviors . Family system events create an endless ( and beginning - less ) circular chain . In this model it
is meaningless to identify an individual as having caused or started a problem . Instead , all elements of
the problem coexist and are reciprocally reinforcing . The problem could not be maintained if any one
element were to be removed .
Concurrent Couples Therapy - Answer-Couples therapy in which one therapist works with both spouses
at different times .
Binuclear Family - Answer-Families in which the parents are divorced , have remarried , and formed two
intact nuclear families .
Third - Order Change for a - Answer-Gregory Bateson's term for a dramatic transformation in thinking . (
See First - Order Change and Second - Order Change ) Temp Shift in system dyn . 7 change the rules of
the system .
, Suprasystem - Answer-A higher - level system , such as a community , in which other systems are
components
Social Constructivist Family Therapy - Answer-A group of postmodern therapeutic approaches based on
the concept that reality is an intersubjective phenomenon that is constructed in conversation . The
theories have been referred to as : postmodern , collaborative , constructivist , narrative , reflexive , and
second order cybernetic . Reality Constructed through lang .
Sacrifice Intervention - Answer-A closing statement in a Milan systemic ( early Milan ) session that
includes a statement of paradox . The person with the symptom is characterized as being in the service
of the homeostasis . This intervention tends to overcome resistance by causing a rebellion against the
symptom .
Quantitative Research - Answer-A research method that emphasizes experimentation , large samples ,
data collection , statistical analysis , objectivity , and verification . Quantitative research is typically used
to test hypotheses ( confirmatory research ) .
Primary Reinforcer - Answer-From the operant conditioning paradigm , biologically determined
reinforcers such as food and sex .
Parallel ( or Good Faith ) Contract - Answer-From behavioral marital therapy , a contract in which the
behavior of each partner is not contingent on the other . ( The husband agrees to take out the garbage
even if his wife does not make the bed . )
Entropy - Answer-From general systems theory , the measure of disorder in a system that occurs
without imposed controls and inputs . A family functioning randomly might be considered highly
entropic .
Negentropy - Answer-From general systems theory , the measure of organization in a system . A well -
organized system would have high levels of negentropy ..
and Answers
Therapeutic Certificates - Answer-From narrative therapy , certificates given to the client or family
announcing the client's victory over the problem , which he / she shows to others and reviews , if he /
she again feels the effects of the problem .
Subjective Units of Discomfort ( SUDS ) - Answer-A scale used by behavioral therapists on which the
client's rate their level of anxiety to a stimulus or situation .
Sexual Dysfunction - Answer-An impaired physiological response preventing a person from full sexual
functioning .
Restraining Techniques - Answer-From MRI strategic , a paradoxical therapeutic technique used when
the family seems ambivalent about changing . The therapist warns the family of the dangers of change ,
restrains them from trying to change , or asks them to change slowly . Thus , the therapist aligns with
the side of the ambivalence that resists change so that the family will align with the side that wishes to
change .
Psychology - Answer-From contextual theory , what happens within a person such as thoughts ,
fantasies , emotions , and the meanings that he / she ascribes to the Facts of his / her life .
,Multigenerational Transmission Process - Answer-In Bowenian family therapy , the 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 .
Visitor - Answer-From solution - focused therapy one of three ways to characterize the client's level of
participation and commitment to change . A visitor does not bring a specific problem to therapy and
does not have a commitment to participating productively in treatment .
Behavioral Parent Training ( BPT ) - Answer-A program for training parents in use of contingency
management to modify or extinguish unwanted behaviors and reinforce desirable behaviors in children .
- Rules & Org . -Clear instructions -Proix ' fund lach , -Ignore " bod behaver - Charts & pts systems
Circularity ( Circular Causality ) - Answer-The notion held by the Milan systemic group that causality in
families cannot be thought of as a simple , single cause and effect relationship ( linear causality ) .
Instead , events , behaviors , and inter actions are seen in a more complex way , as mutually influencing
one another ( feedback loops ) . Each is the effect of a prior cause and in turn influences future
behaviors . Family system events create an endless ( and beginning - less ) circular chain . In this model it
is meaningless to identify an individual as having caused or started a problem . Instead , all elements of
the problem coexist and are reciprocally reinforcing . The problem could not be maintained if any one
element were to be removed .
Concurrent Couples Therapy - Answer-Couples therapy in which one therapist works with both spouses
at different times .
Binuclear Family - Answer-Families in which the parents are divorced , have remarried , and formed two
intact nuclear families .
Third - Order Change for a - Answer-Gregory Bateson's term for a dramatic transformation in thinking . (
See First - Order Change and Second - Order Change ) Temp Shift in system dyn . 7 change the rules of
the system .
, Suprasystem - Answer-A higher - level system , such as a community , in which other systems are
components
Social Constructivist Family Therapy - Answer-A group of postmodern therapeutic approaches based on
the concept that reality is an intersubjective phenomenon that is constructed in conversation . The
theories have been referred to as : postmodern , collaborative , constructivist , narrative , reflexive , and
second order cybernetic . Reality Constructed through lang .
Sacrifice Intervention - Answer-A closing statement in a Milan systemic ( early Milan ) session that
includes a statement of paradox . The person with the symptom is characterized as being in the service
of the homeostasis . This intervention tends to overcome resistance by causing a rebellion against the
symptom .
Quantitative Research - Answer-A research method that emphasizes experimentation , large samples ,
data collection , statistical analysis , objectivity , and verification . Quantitative research is typically used
to test hypotheses ( confirmatory research ) .
Primary Reinforcer - Answer-From the operant conditioning paradigm , biologically determined
reinforcers such as food and sex .
Parallel ( or Good Faith ) Contract - Answer-From behavioral marital therapy , a contract in which the
behavior of each partner is not contingent on the other . ( The husband agrees to take out the garbage
even if his wife does not make the bed . )
Entropy - Answer-From general systems theory , the measure of disorder in a system that occurs
without imposed controls and inputs . A family functioning randomly might be considered highly
entropic .
Negentropy - Answer-From general systems theory , the measure of organization in a system . A well -
organized system would have high levels of negentropy ..
