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AMFTRB MFT ACTUAL EXAM|| 2024-2025 STUDY
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Analysis of Variance ( ANOVA ) - ANSWER| A method of statistical analysis
which enables researchers to determine the likelihood that a variable being
measured dependent variable ) is associated with a second variable ( independent
variable ) by chance alone . If the deviation ( variance ) from the norm ( frequency
of association expected by chance alone ) is sufficiently large , the variables are
likely to be causally related .
Contextual Family Therapy - ANSWER| A theory and therapeutic model
developed by Boszormenyi - Nagy based on the ethical dimension of family
relationships . The family maintains invisible , intergenerational loyalties , which
members hold in their personal ledgers . Problems in relationships are thought to
result either from an attempt to maintain or change the balance sheet of what
members owe to one another .
Projective Identification - ANSWER| An interactive and dysfunctional defense
mechanism , defined by the object relations model , in which unwanted
characteristics of the self are unconsciously projected onto attributed to ) another
person who colludes by behaving as if these projections are true of them . For
example , a father has an impulse to engage in deviant or illegal behavior , but the
impulse causes him anxiety . He unconsciously projects the impulse onto his son
and subtly reinforces his son's acting - out behaviors .
Projective Identification - ANSWER| An interactive and dysfunctional defense
mechanism , defined by the object relations model , in which unwanted
characteristics of the self are unconsciously projected onto ( attributed to ) another
person who colludes by behaving as if these projections are true of them . For
example , a father has an impulse to engage in deviant or illegal behavior , but the
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impulse causes him anxiety . He unconsciously projects the impulse onto his son
and subtly reinforces his son's acting - out behaviors .
Reframing ( Relabeling ) - ANSWER| From strategic family therapy , techniques
in which the therapist's language and how he / she labels events gives new , often
positive , meaning to a situation . This alteration of meaning invites the possibility
of change , for example reframing a parent's fusion with a child as " caring too
much " rather than dependency or separation anxiety . Relabeling often refers to
the alteration of the meaning of a single event , while reframing usually refers to a
larger context .
Streptic Communication - ANSWER| From communication theory ,
communicating through sounds such as whistles , claps .
Systematic Desensitization - ANSWER| From Wolpe , a behavioral therapy
technique for reducing the capacity of conditioned stimuli or activities to evoke
anxiety . The therapist first instructs the client to arrange various anxiety -
provoking stimuli or activities on a hierarchy rated according to a Subjective Units
or Discomfort Scale ( SUDS ) ( e.g. , planning a trip that requires crossing a bridge
driving toward the bridge ; driving on the bridge ; walking onto the bridge ) . The
state of relaxation , then pairs the therapist teaches the client to induce a relaxation
response with the anxiety provoking stimuli , working progressively up the
hierarchy .
Unbalancing - ANSWER| A structural technique designed to disrupt a
dysfunctional sequence by lending greater support to one side of a conflict than the
other .
Balancing Power - ANSWER| Equalizing access to power in a couple which is
overly organized by a hierarchy .
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Case - Specific Symptom Prescription - ANSWER| A therapeutic technique of the
strategic model , in which symptomatic or other undesirable behaviors are
paradoxically encouraged in order to lessen such behavior or bring it under
conscious control .
Collaborative Language Family Therapy - ANSWER| From Goolishian and
Anderson , a model of family therapy based on the idea that problems are
maintained in the family's language and may be resolved by changes in their use of
language . The therapist asks questions from a not knowing stance , designed to
draw out the client's own views of the problem . The problem is " dissolved " as
new meanings and actions evolve .
Cross Generational Coalition - ANSWER| From structural therapy , a stable
coalition between a parent and child against the other patent .
Cross Generational Coalition - ANSWER| From structural therapy , a stable
coalition between a parent and child against the other patent .
Ego - ANSWER| An analytic concept referring to a hypothetical internal mental
structure that both contains the individual's perception of him / herself and is also
the rational mediator between the instinctual demands of the id and the internalized
social prohibitions of the super - ego .
Exoneration - ANSWER| From contextual therapy , the goal of treatment in which
the therapist attempts to help the client see the positive intent and intergenerational
loyalty issues behind even the destructive behaviors of previous generations . Also
thought of as forgiveness based upon understanding the past . If the behavior can
be seen in a human context , the hold of the past is loosened
152 First - Order Change - ANSWER| From the MRI school , adaptations and
changes in families which may change behavior , but do not affect the system's
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organization . For example , an adolescent begins maintaining his / her curfew as a
result of being grounded for breaking curfew . See Second - Order Change )
Homeostasis - ANSWER| The tendency of a system to strive for balance in order
to achieve stability and limit the range of behavioral variability .
Internal Family Systems ( IFS ) - ANSWER| An integrated , collaborative family
or individual therapy model created by Richard Schwartz , applying systems
concepts and techniques ( Gestalt , structural , strategic , experiential ) to
intrapsychic processes . Therapists and clients co - create changes in life stories .
The goal of individual therapy to help the client differentiate his / her core Self and
heal the parts . In family therapy the goal is to elicit the family members ' problem .
Family members can then parts of each that are involved in the Selves and
collaboratively deal with the have Self - to - Self interactions and begin rather than
being defined by the a problem with some of their parts to see one another as
people who have symptom .
Linear Causality - ANSWER| An assumption of cause and effect in which one
event is thought to cause the next . For example , in a classical conditioning
paradigm , a particular stimulus elicits a specific response ( see Circularity ) .
Mimesis - ANSWER| A joining technique used primarily by structural therapists
in which the therapist gains acceptance by mimicking the gestures ,
communication , and behavioral patterns of family members .
Network Effect - ANSWER| This is a goal of network therapy . It is a euphoric
connectedness to others , likened to the energy and feelings of connectedness that
can occur at religious revivals , and rock concerts . The result is to bind the group
together into a supportive , purposeful , goal - oriented social network .
