AMFTRB Exam (2025-2026) comprehensive
questions and verified answers (detailed &
elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025-2026 TEST!!
GST proposed that all living systems share universal characteristics.
Fundamental principle is idea that the whole of the system is more than
the sum of its parts. To understand the system as a whole, must
understand the dynamic, circular functioning between the parts.
General Systems Theory definition
the study of information processing, feedback, and control in
communication systems
Cybernetics
theoretical lines of demarcation in a family that define a system as an
entity and separate the subsystems from one another and the system
from its environment.
Boundaries
,The regions between each subsystem of the family and between the
family and the supra-system. In family systems therapy this interface is
referred to as the familial boundary.
Boundary Interface
the term used to represent the concept of Boundary Interface within
literature of FT
Familial Boundary
interact regularly with the environment with relatively no inhibition
Open systems
Strategic Family Therapy
founding editor of 1st journal in family therapy
Jay Haley
family division into competing groups
schism (Theodore Lidz)
,An approach that is based on the premise that parents and children
often become locked in repetitive, negative interactions based on
mistaken goals that motivate all parties involved.
Adlerian Family Therapy
parents assume roles based on their expectations of the children
"stuck family" (Adlerian)
attention upon past family interaction as a means by which to avoid
future problems
strength of Bowen Family Therapy
, the interpretation of meaning
Hermeneutics
"reality therapy"
CBT Therapy is also known as...
Milton Erickson
Brief Therapy (earliest model) was developed by...
Monica McGoldrick & Randy Gerson
the genogram was developed/popularized by BLANK & BLANK
n. The act of artfully perplexing. Confused, befuddle, mask what is going
on (RD Laing)
mystification
1) Individuality
2) Togetherness
2 Essential Theme's of Bowen's theory
questions and verified answers (detailed &
elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025-2026 TEST!!
GST proposed that all living systems share universal characteristics.
Fundamental principle is idea that the whole of the system is more than
the sum of its parts. To understand the system as a whole, must
understand the dynamic, circular functioning between the parts.
General Systems Theory definition
the study of information processing, feedback, and control in
communication systems
Cybernetics
theoretical lines of demarcation in a family that define a system as an
entity and separate the subsystems from one another and the system
from its environment.
Boundaries
,The regions between each subsystem of the family and between the
family and the supra-system. In family systems therapy this interface is
referred to as the familial boundary.
Boundary Interface
the term used to represent the concept of Boundary Interface within
literature of FT
Familial Boundary
interact regularly with the environment with relatively no inhibition
Open systems
Strategic Family Therapy
founding editor of 1st journal in family therapy
Jay Haley
family division into competing groups
schism (Theodore Lidz)
,An approach that is based on the premise that parents and children
often become locked in repetitive, negative interactions based on
mistaken goals that motivate all parties involved.
Adlerian Family Therapy
parents assume roles based on their expectations of the children
"stuck family" (Adlerian)
attention upon past family interaction as a means by which to avoid
future problems
strength of Bowen Family Therapy
, the interpretation of meaning
Hermeneutics
"reality therapy"
CBT Therapy is also known as...
Milton Erickson
Brief Therapy (earliest model) was developed by...
Monica McGoldrick & Randy Gerson
the genogram was developed/popularized by BLANK & BLANK
n. The act of artfully perplexing. Confused, befuddle, mask what is going
on (RD Laing)
mystification
1) Individuality
2) Togetherness
2 Essential Theme's of Bowen's theory
