AMFTRB Exam Question and Answers.
Modernism -
\Goal: to identify the truth of the world and of human behavior
epistemology: therapists as experts who takes charge of and sets goals for therapy
Modern Systemic assumptions -
\Problems are contextually based, existing in a system,
circular rather than linear causality
families move through normative stages of development
symptoms are metaphorical
symptoms are system-maintained and system-maintaining
necessity of 2nd order change
correct family structure
Ludwig von Bertalanffy -
\Hungarian biologist and creator of general systems theory
Wiener -
\creator of cybernetics
Gregory Bateson -
\English anthropologist and ethnologist; first applied concepts of cybernetics to social
and behavioral sciences
Don Jackson -
\pioneer in family therapy; described families as "cybernetically rule-governed systems"
Boundaries -
\patterns of behaviors that define the relationships in the system and characterizes the
relationships
Causality -
\circular- problems occur by a number of different factors that maintain the system
1st order change -
\minor structural change in a system, the change does not stay for long
when the family comes under change they go away
2nd order change -
\fundamental shift in how the interaction and how they relate to one another, there is a
shift in the rules that govern the system
Modernism -
\Goal: to identify the truth of the world and of human behavior
epistemology: therapists as experts who takes charge of and sets goals for therapy
Modern Systemic assumptions -
\Problems are contextually based, existing in a system,
circular rather than linear causality
families move through normative stages of development
symptoms are metaphorical
symptoms are system-maintained and system-maintaining
necessity of 2nd order change
correct family structure
Ludwig von Bertalanffy -
\Hungarian biologist and creator of general systems theory
Wiener -
\creator of cybernetics
Gregory Bateson -
\English anthropologist and ethnologist; first applied concepts of cybernetics to social
and behavioral sciences
Don Jackson -
\pioneer in family therapy; described families as "cybernetically rule-governed systems"
Boundaries -
\patterns of behaviors that define the relationships in the system and characterizes the
relationships
Causality -
\circular- problems occur by a number of different factors that maintain the system
1st order change -
\minor structural change in a system, the change does not stay for long
when the family comes under change they go away
2nd order change -
\fundamental shift in how the interaction and how they relate to one another, there is a
shift in the rules that govern the system
