AMFTRB NATIONAL EXAMQUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models? - Answer-Psychoanalytic and
object relations
How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational model? - Answer-Approximately
2 years
(Terms) insight/working through - Answer-Transgenerational models
multigenerational transmission process - Answer-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
Family projection process - Answer-lack of differentiation in parents often results in one of the parents
becoming dysfunctional, immature, and fused with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-unit is
avoided, but child's emotional growth is sacrificed. Symptoms and lack of differentiation is transmitted
from parents to children.
,nuclear family Emotional System - Answer-Fused family that is unstable and unable to cope with stress.
Characterized by conflict and dysfunction that are transmitted across generations.
triangles - Answer-smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes process by which two people
recruit third person into system to mediate the level of conflict or tension between them.
pseudo-self - Answer-person who is not differentiated may be fused with another person. as a result
they do not reason with their values but instead borrows values of person with whom they are fused
and commonly makes emotionally reactive choices.
solid-self - Answer-a person who is well differentiated and is able to function based upon a personally
defined set of values, beliefs, convictions, and life principles
Differentiation of self - Answer-separation of intellectual and emotional functioning, which results in
being less reactive to family system dynamics and other members emotional states
According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3 places... - Answer-The marital
relationship
The health of one partner (physical or mental)
In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
Bowenian Interventions - Answer-Differentiation of self scale
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment
Person-to-person relationships
Coaching
I Position
, Extension of Bowen's model - Answer-Philip Guerin: elaborated on genogram and developed the
displacement story intervention.
Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
Monica McGoldrick: extended Bowenian model to include the role of enthnicity as a factor in the family.
Feminist. Written extensively on family life cycle. Culturally appropriate therapy.
Strategic family therapy - Answer-Bateson, Palo Alto group, Erickson
The Palo Alto Group - Answer-Jay Haley, Don Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry
Double Bind - Answer-1. Communication involves two or more people with an important emotional
relationship
2. Pattern of communication is repeated
3. Communication involves a "primary negative injunction" or a command not to do something on threat
of punishment.
4. Communication involves a second abstract injunction also under threat of punishment that
contradicts primary injunction
5. Third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents escape.
6. Recipient becomes conditioned to respond and sequence is no longer necessary to maintain
symptom.
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
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models? - Answer-Psychoanalytic and
object relations
How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational model? - Answer-Approximately
2 years
(Terms) insight/working through - Answer-Transgenerational models
multigenerational transmission process - Answer-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
Family projection process - Answer-lack of differentiation in parents often results in one of the parents
becoming dysfunctional, immature, and fused with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-unit is
avoided, but child's emotional growth is sacrificed. Symptoms and lack of differentiation is transmitted
from parents to children.
,nuclear family Emotional System - Answer-Fused family that is unstable and unable to cope with stress.
Characterized by conflict and dysfunction that are transmitted across generations.
triangles - Answer-smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes process by which two people
recruit third person into system to mediate the level of conflict or tension between them.
pseudo-self - Answer-person who is not differentiated may be fused with another person. as a result
they do not reason with their values but instead borrows values of person with whom they are fused
and commonly makes emotionally reactive choices.
solid-self - Answer-a person who is well differentiated and is able to function based upon a personally
defined set of values, beliefs, convictions, and life principles
Differentiation of self - Answer-separation of intellectual and emotional functioning, which results in
being less reactive to family system dynamics and other members emotional states
According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3 places... - Answer-The marital
relationship
The health of one partner (physical or mental)
In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
Bowenian Interventions - Answer-Differentiation of self scale
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment
Person-to-person relationships
Coaching
I Position
, Extension of Bowen's model - Answer-Philip Guerin: elaborated on genogram and developed the
displacement story intervention.
Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
Monica McGoldrick: extended Bowenian model to include the role of enthnicity as a factor in the family.
Feminist. Written extensively on family life cycle. Culturally appropriate therapy.
Strategic family therapy - Answer-Bateson, Palo Alto group, Erickson
The Palo Alto Group - Answer-Jay Haley, Don Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry
Double Bind - Answer-1. Communication involves two or more people with an important emotional
relationship
2. Pattern of communication is repeated
3. Communication involves a "primary negative injunction" or a command not to do something on threat
of punishment.
4. Communication involves a second abstract injunction also under threat of punishment that
contradicts primary injunction
5. Third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents escape.
6. Recipient becomes conditioned to respond and sequence is no longer necessary to maintain
symptom.
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
