AMFTRB Exam (2025-2026)
comprehensive questions and verified
answers (detailed & elaborated)
ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST!!
MRI; Mental Research Institute A center for the study of families
in Palo, Alto, CA whose researchers and practioners- Bateson,
Jackson, Satir, Weakland, Fry, and Haley studied schizophrenia
and family interactions, communication, and cybernetic theory.
They emphasized process and interactional sequences rather
than structure, and distinguished between first-order and second-
order change. They developed a version of Brief Family Therapy
based on the notion that the "problem" or tx focus, stems from the
failed solution previously attempted by the family.
✔ANSWER✔Mental Research Institute (MRI)
,Arguing and bickering that hides "pathological alignments" in
families
A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both
affection and splits
Prevents open communication and quality relationships (Lyman
Wynne, 1940s) ✔ANSWER✔Psuedohostility
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly
impermeable to information from the outside; boundaries bind
them together in their resistance to separation" Appear open and
flexible but are closed. (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
✔ANSWER✔Rubber-Fence Boundary
Attachment theory. Identified the characteristics of a child's
attachment to his/her caregiver and the phases that a child
experiences when separated from the caregiver.
✔ANSWER✔John Bowlby
- Secure Attachment
- Insecure Attachment (Anxious-Avoidant)
- Insecure Attachment (Ambivalent-Resistant)
- Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment ✔ANSWER✔Different
attachment styles (Bowlby, 1949)
,Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital
couple's influence on the development of schizophrenia in a child
(1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems
which harms the marriage, individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is
dependent. ✔ANSWER✔Theodore Lidz
Founded by Don Jackson and Nathan Ackerman, edited by Jay
Haley (1962) ✔ANSWER✔"Family process" (peer-reviewed
journal)
Coined the term and theory "cybernetics" ✔ANSWER✔Norbert
Wiener
living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/
complex feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of
affairs (i.e. homeostasis) → leads to Bowlby's system of behavior
control ✔ANSWER✔General Systems Theory
distinct pattern of communication in which one individual receives
contradictory commands from which there is no escape (lose,
lose situation) ✔ANSWER✔Double bind theory
, describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that
hides conflict and interferes with intimacy (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
✔ANSWER✔Psuedomutality
1) Communication involves 2 or more people who are involved in
an important emotional relationship.
2) The pattern of communication and the relationship is a
repeated experience.
3) The communication involves a primary negative injunction--or a
command not to do (some act) or not to NOT do (some act),
either of which come with a threat of punishment.
4) A second abstract injunction is given that contradicts the
primary injunction but at a more abstract level and is usually
nonverbal. This also occurs under the threat of punishment.
5) A third negative injunction both demands a response and
prevents escape, effectively binding the recipient to the
environment in which these patterns exist.
6) When the above double bind messages have been
communicated enough times, the individual has become
conditioned which no longer requires all of the above mentioned
criteria to be present in order to elicit the same intensity in re
✔ANSWER✔6 characteristic of a double bind
Theory of Logical Types ✔ANSWER✔Bertrand Russell
General Systems Theory ✔ANSWER✔Ludwig von Bertalanffy
comprehensive questions and verified
answers (detailed & elaborated)
ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST!!
MRI; Mental Research Institute A center for the study of families
in Palo, Alto, CA whose researchers and practioners- Bateson,
Jackson, Satir, Weakland, Fry, and Haley studied schizophrenia
and family interactions, communication, and cybernetic theory.
They emphasized process and interactional sequences rather
than structure, and distinguished between first-order and second-
order change. They developed a version of Brief Family Therapy
based on the notion that the "problem" or tx focus, stems from the
failed solution previously attempted by the family.
✔ANSWER✔Mental Research Institute (MRI)
,Arguing and bickering that hides "pathological alignments" in
families
A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both
affection and splits
Prevents open communication and quality relationships (Lyman
Wynne, 1940s) ✔ANSWER✔Psuedohostility
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly
impermeable to information from the outside; boundaries bind
them together in their resistance to separation" Appear open and
flexible but are closed. (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
✔ANSWER✔Rubber-Fence Boundary
Attachment theory. Identified the characteristics of a child's
attachment to his/her caregiver and the phases that a child
experiences when separated from the caregiver.
✔ANSWER✔John Bowlby
- Secure Attachment
- Insecure Attachment (Anxious-Avoidant)
- Insecure Attachment (Ambivalent-Resistant)
- Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment ✔ANSWER✔Different
attachment styles (Bowlby, 1949)
,Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital
couple's influence on the development of schizophrenia in a child
(1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems
which harms the marriage, individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is
dependent. ✔ANSWER✔Theodore Lidz
Founded by Don Jackson and Nathan Ackerman, edited by Jay
Haley (1962) ✔ANSWER✔"Family process" (peer-reviewed
journal)
Coined the term and theory "cybernetics" ✔ANSWER✔Norbert
Wiener
living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/
complex feed systems capable of maintaining a desired state of
affairs (i.e. homeostasis) → leads to Bowlby's system of behavior
control ✔ANSWER✔General Systems Theory
distinct pattern of communication in which one individual receives
contradictory commands from which there is no escape (lose,
lose situation) ✔ANSWER✔Double bind theory
, describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that
hides conflict and interferes with intimacy (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
✔ANSWER✔Psuedomutality
1) Communication involves 2 or more people who are involved in
an important emotional relationship.
2) The pattern of communication and the relationship is a
repeated experience.
3) The communication involves a primary negative injunction--or a
command not to do (some act) or not to NOT do (some act),
either of which come with a threat of punishment.
4) A second abstract injunction is given that contradicts the
primary injunction but at a more abstract level and is usually
nonverbal. This also occurs under the threat of punishment.
5) A third negative injunction both demands a response and
prevents escape, effectively binding the recipient to the
environment in which these patterns exist.
6) When the above double bind messages have been
communicated enough times, the individual has become
conditioned which no longer requires all of the above mentioned
criteria to be present in order to elicit the same intensity in re
✔ANSWER✔6 characteristic of a double bind
Theory of Logical Types ✔ANSWER✔Bertrand Russell
General Systems Theory ✔ANSWER✔Ludwig von Bertalanffy
