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MFT 50 Exam Questions and AnswersAAMFT Code of Ethics: - ANSWER-A set of ethical guidelines and rules that all
members of AAMFT are required to understand and to follow (AAMFT Ethics
Committee, 1991). The functions of the AAMFT ethical code are to define the role of the
professional, help guide professional conduct, and serve as a basis for sanctions. Many
states have adopted these guidelines as part of their regulation of marriage and family
therapists.
AAMFT: - ANSWER-American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc., the
primary national professional association of MFTs. AAMFT is located in Washington,
DC. Although AAMFT makes no direct contribution to the licensing examination, many
senior members have contributed test items. AAMFT wrote the Code of Ethics, which is
the basis for the MFT ethical codes in all states.
ABC-X Family Crisis Model: - ANSWER-Reuben Hill's model used to explain whether or
not a stressful event would result in a crisis in some families but not in others. A = the
stressor, B = the family's crisis-meeting resources, C = the family's definition of the
stressor, and X = the crisis (see Double ABC-X Family Stress Model).
Autopoietic Systems: - ANSWER-Originated by postmodern Chilean biologist,
Maturana, systems that are self-organizing and self-maintaining, such as biological and
human systems. Autopoietic Systems can be described by second-order cybernetics.
Avoider: - ANSWER-From Satir's Experiential Family Therapy model, one of five
communication styles. The avoider tends to distract others from potential conflict by
acting helpless, weak, and lacking an understanding.
Beavers - Timberlawn Model: - ANSWER-An assessment tool used to rate the
dimensions of competence and style in a family's functioning. Competence dimensions
are: adequate, optimal, midrange, borderline, and severely dysfunctional. Stylistic
dimensions are: centripetal, centrifugal, and mixed.
Central Ego: - ANSWER-From Object Relations Theory, one of three parts of the ego.
The Central Ego is conscious, adaptable, and free to deal with future experiences with
attachment figures in reasonable ways. The central ego maintains its own object, the
ideal object(see Rejecting Ego and Exciting Ego).
Centripetal: - ANSWER-Defined by Beavers as part of the Beavers-Timberlawn Model,
a family system dynamic in which members are tightly bound to one another emotionally
and encouraged to seek gratification from one another. Sort of a "black-hole" family
system.
, Change: - ANSWER-1) From structural family therapy, perspective change is the
process by which elements of a system are transformed to new states or levels of
organization.
2) developmental system change refers to the family life cycle and the transition of the
family from one stage of development to another. Strategic models see change as
occurring suddenly and resulting from shifts in beliefs (discontinuous change); whereas
the structural and transgenerational models see change as occurring though a gradual
learning process (continuous change).
Circular Questioning: - ANSWER-A technique for interviewing and hypothesis validation
designed by the Milan systemic group, based on Bateson's idea that people learn by
perceiving differences. In this technique, each family member comments on the
behavior and interactions of two other members. It is hoped that beliefs will become less
rigid when members are exposed to different perspectives. Karl Tomm further perfected
this technique which became an influence in the development of the Narrative's Model
technique of externalizing the problem.
Circularity (Circular Causality): - ANSWER-Originally developed by Bateson in his book,
Steps to an Ecology of Mind. This concept was of particular interest to the Milan
Systemic Group who posited that causality in families cannot be thought of as a simple,
single cause and effect relationship (linear causality). Instead, events, behaviors, and
interactions are seen in a more complex way, as mutually influencing one another
(feedback loops). Each is the effect of a prior cause and in turn influences future
behaviors. Family system events create an endless (and beginning-less) circular chain.
In this model it is meaningless to identify an individual as having caused or started a
problem. Instead, all elements of the problem coexist and are reciprocally reinforcing.
The problem could not be maintained if any one element were to be removed.
Circumplex Model: - ANSWER-A model for observing and assessing families designed
by Olson, which measures the family's levels of cohesion and adaptability. Families with
too much cohesion tend to function as enmeshed, and those with too little can be
disengaged. Too much adaptability can result in excessive and unpredictable change,
while too little can result in rigidity and failure to transition through the life cycle. Healthy
families will be balanced, having neither too much nor too little of either quality. Olson's
evaluation tool, FACES III gained popularity as it is used to apply the Circumplex Model
to family assessment.
Classical Conditioning: - ANSWER-A learning paradigm studied and practiced in a
laboratory or other controlled environment in which a stimulus called the unconditioned
stimulus (US) which naturally elicits an unconditioned response (UCR), is paired with a
neutral stimulus that does not initially elicit a response. Through the repeated pairings,
the neutral stimulus (now the conditioned stimulus - CS) begins to elicit the desired
response (now the conditioned response - CR).
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