AMFTRB National Exam Study Guide; Major Terminologies (work in progress) |
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Positivism Belief System - ✔✔This theory believes there can be only one real interpretation of a client's
problem.
Realism Belief System - ✔✔This theory believes there is no room for personal perspective or
interpretation.
Essential-ism Belief System - ✔✔This theory believes that things in the world can not be interpreted
differently based on personal, cultural, or social perspective
Empiricism Belief System - ✔✔This theory believes that all knowledge comes through sensual
experience. For example I know I am right because of the way I feel about it.
Complimentary Relationship - ✔✔In this type of relationship members complete each other by
possessing different strengths and weaknesses that make up for what the other is missing.
Emotional Reactivity (Family Systems Theory) - ✔✔This means to respond to a stimuli without serious
thought, but with emotions or feelings, rather than logic or perspective.
Coalition - ✔✔This term is used to describe when multiple members of a family unite against another
member or members of their family.
Symmetric Relationship - ✔✔In this type of relationship each member has equal importance and status
with no clear dominant leader.
Content and Process - ✔✔This is the difference that is observed in therapy from how a client behaves,
and how they speak.
,First Order Change - ✔✔This is described as a minimal change to a family that does not effect or change
the overall family system.
Second Order Change - ✔✔This term is used to describe a change in a family system that alters the
family dynamic or how they operate.
Family System - ✔✔This is an understanding of how each member of a family works together as
individuals to form a single unit.
Family Rules - ✔✔This is the repetitive way, unwritten or unspoken, of how demands influence
individuals, in the family, and how they behave, express emotion and interact.
Family Homeostasis - ✔✔This is used to describe the way in which Families behave in order to avoid
change and keep things the same.
Identified Client or Patient - ✔✔This individual is usually, due to behavior or symptoms, the reason why
families begin therapy.
Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass - ✔✔Bowen used this term to describe a family that lacked the ability
to experience individual feelings and emotions.
Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass - ✔✔According to Bowen, this describes a families unhealthy
tendency to function as one emotional being.
Second Order Cybernetics - ✔✔This is the theory that a therapist cannot remain neutral while observing
and trying to change a family system. In fact they will become part of the family system they are trying
to work with.
Meta Communication - ✔✔This is the belief that all dialogue is split between the direct message, and
the suggested message.
, Parent Training - ✔✔This is when a therapist teaches caregivers specific techniques and skills to increase
positive behavior and decrease negative behavior in their children.
Process Research - ✔✔This is when a therapist explores different approaches in therapy, and concludes
which techniques and interventions are most effective, resulting in a specilized therapy to help the
client.
Randomized Trials - ✔✔This is a research method that compares how well different treatments work,
using patients, that are selected at random.
Meta Analysis - ✔✔By examining multiple studies and looking at the overall picture of a therapeutic
approach, a therapist can determine which therapy is appropriate for their client.
Triangles (Family Systems Theory) - ✔✔Bowen describes this as a three person relationship in which one
person is singled out, from the three, in order to re-route tension or dysfunction from the other two.
The Differentiation of Self (Family Systems Theory) - ✔✔Bowen said that individuals within a family
must exist separately, from one another. It is important to keep thoughts and feelings distinct to
themselves.
Introjection - ✔✔This is when a person unconsciously absorbs and duplicates aspects of their
environment. These can include; Behaviors, Characteristics, and Actions of other people.
Self Object - ✔✔This is when an individual sees another person as part of themselves rather than there
own separate individuality. Typically found in the relationship of a young child to their parent.
Mirroring - ✔✔This is the process of actively acknowledging a persons experiences, emotion's, and
feelings by showing approval and understanding. This process is very important to a child's development
and the therapeutic process.
Internal Object - ✔✔This term is used to describe the development of an individuals personality and
psychology through the creation of internal structures, pictures and ideas based on experiences with
others and themselves.
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