AMFTRB NATIONAL EXAM. 149
Questions and Correct Answers, 100%
Correct. Updated 2024/2025.
What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models?
Psychoanalytic and object relations
How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational model?
Approximately 2 years
(Terms) insight/working through
Transgenerational models
multigenerational transmission process
process by which roles, patterns, emotional reactivity, and family structure are passed from one
generation to another. Poorly differentiated individuals tend to marry one another, and over several
generations produce offspring who are increasingly less differentiated and as a result suffer from severe
mental disorders including schizophrenia
Family projection process
lack of differentiation in parents often results in one of the parents becoming dysfunctional, immature,
and fused with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-unit is avoided, but child's emotional growth
is sacrificed. Symptoms and lack of differentiation is transmitted from parents to children.
nuclear family Emotional System
Fused family that is unstable and unable to cope with stress. Characterized by conflict and dysfunction
that are transmitted across generations.
triangles
smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes process by which two people recruit third person
into system to mediate the level of conflict or tension between them.
pseudo-self
person who is not differentiated may be fused with another person. as a result they do not reason with
their values but instead borrows values of person with whom they are fused and commonly makes
emotionally reactive choices.
solid-self
a person who is well differentiated and is able to function based upon a personally defined set of values,
beliefs, convictions, and life principles
,Differentiation of self
separation of intellectual and emotional functioning, which results in being less reactive to family system
dynamics and other members emotional states
According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3 places...
The marital relationship
The health of one partner (physical or mental)
In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
Bowenian Interventions
Differentiation of self scale
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment
Person-to-person relationships
Coaching
I Position
Extension of Bowen's model
Philip Guerin: elaborated on genogram and developed the displacement story intervention.
Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
Monica McGoldrick: extended Bowenian model to include the role of enthnicity as a factor in the family.
Feminist. Written extensively on family life cycle. Culturally appropriate therapy.
Strategic family therapy
Bateson, Palo Alto group, Erickson
The Palo Alto Group
Jay Haley, Don Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry
Double Bind
1. Communication involves two or more people with an important emotional relationship
2. Pattern of communication is repeated
3. Communication involves a "primary negative injunction" or a command not to do something on threat
of punishment.
4. Communication involves a second abstract injunction also under threat of punishment that contradicts
primary injunction
5. Third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents escape.
6. Recipient becomes conditioned to respond and sequence is no longer necessary to maintain
symptom.
What was Erickson known for?
Paradoxical intervention and hypnotherapy
, What models are associated with the Strategic model?
MRI and Haley & Madanes
What field did the Brief Therapy Center derive from?
MRI
What are the 6 steps of assessment and treatment from the MRI model?
1. Introduction to treatment setup
2. Inquiry into definition of the problem
3. Estimation of behaviors maintaining the problem
4. Setting the goals for treatment
-Explore previous attempts to solve
problem
5. Selecting and making behavioral interventions
Reframing, paradoxical interventions,
restraining techniques, positioning
6. Termination
With which two models does the Haley-Madanes model derive?
strategic and sructural
The 4 stages of haley-Madanes Therapy
1. Social Stage
2. Problem stage
3. Interactional Stage
4. Goal-setting stage
Directives
Incongruous Hierarchies (Haley-Madanes)
Created when children use symptoms to try to change their parents.
Haley-Madanes Interventions
Dramatizations
Pretending
Make-believe Play
Directives
Structure of Original Milan Model
1. Presession- team formed an initial hypothesis
2. session- hypothesis validated and modified
3. Intersession- team met alone to form an intervention
4. Intervention- therapist returned to deliver intervention, either a positive connotation or ritiual, which
was given in for of statement together with prohibition against change, using paradox to counter
Questions and Correct Answers, 100%
Correct. Updated 2024/2025.
What theoretical disciplines influenced the transgenerational models?
Psychoanalytic and object relations
How long does treatment typically last when using a transgenerational model?
Approximately 2 years
(Terms) insight/working through
Transgenerational models
multigenerational transmission process
process by which roles, patterns, emotional reactivity, and family structure are passed from one
generation to another. Poorly differentiated individuals tend to marry one another, and over several
generations produce offspring who are increasingly less differentiated and as a result suffer from severe
mental disorders including schizophrenia
Family projection process
lack of differentiation in parents often results in one of the parents becoming dysfunctional, immature,
and fused with one of the children. COnflict in parental sub-unit is avoided, but child's emotional growth
is sacrificed. Symptoms and lack of differentiation is transmitted from parents to children.
nuclear family Emotional System
Fused family that is unstable and unable to cope with stress. Characterized by conflict and dysfunction
that are transmitted across generations.
triangles
smallest stable emotional unit in a family and describes process by which two people recruit third person
into system to mediate the level of conflict or tension between them.
pseudo-self
person who is not differentiated may be fused with another person. as a result they do not reason with
their values but instead borrows values of person with whom they are fused and commonly makes
emotionally reactive choices.
solid-self
a person who is well differentiated and is able to function based upon a personally defined set of values,
beliefs, convictions, and life principles
,Differentiation of self
separation of intellectual and emotional functioning, which results in being less reactive to family system
dynamics and other members emotional states
According to Bowen, symptoms within the family can manifest in 3 places...
The marital relationship
The health of one partner (physical or mental)
In the children (or the space between the parent and child)
Bowenian Interventions
Differentiation of self scale
Genogram
Emotional-cutoff assessment
Person-to-person relationships
Coaching
I Position
Extension of Bowen's model
Philip Guerin: elaborated on genogram and developed the displacement story intervention.
Betty Carter: extended the model to fit a feminist perspective
Monica McGoldrick: extended Bowenian model to include the role of enthnicity as a factor in the family.
Feminist. Written extensively on family life cycle. Culturally appropriate therapy.
Strategic family therapy
Bateson, Palo Alto group, Erickson
The Palo Alto Group
Jay Haley, Don Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry
Double Bind
1. Communication involves two or more people with an important emotional relationship
2. Pattern of communication is repeated
3. Communication involves a "primary negative injunction" or a command not to do something on threat
of punishment.
4. Communication involves a second abstract injunction also under threat of punishment that contradicts
primary injunction
5. Third negative injunction both demands a response and prevents escape.
6. Recipient becomes conditioned to respond and sequence is no longer necessary to maintain
symptom.
What was Erickson known for?
Paradoxical intervention and hypnotherapy
, What models are associated with the Strategic model?
MRI and Haley & Madanes
What field did the Brief Therapy Center derive from?
MRI
What are the 6 steps of assessment and treatment from the MRI model?
1. Introduction to treatment setup
2. Inquiry into definition of the problem
3. Estimation of behaviors maintaining the problem
4. Setting the goals for treatment
-Explore previous attempts to solve
problem
5. Selecting and making behavioral interventions
Reframing, paradoxical interventions,
restraining techniques, positioning
6. Termination
With which two models does the Haley-Madanes model derive?
strategic and sructural
The 4 stages of haley-Madanes Therapy
1. Social Stage
2. Problem stage
3. Interactional Stage
4. Goal-setting stage
Directives
Incongruous Hierarchies (Haley-Madanes)
Created when children use symptoms to try to change their parents.
Haley-Madanes Interventions
Dramatizations
Pretending
Make-believe Play
Directives
Structure of Original Milan Model
1. Presession- team formed an initial hypothesis
2. session- hypothesis validated and modified
3. Intersession- team met alone to form an intervention
4. Intervention- therapist returned to deliver intervention, either a positive connotation or ritiual, which
was given in for of statement together with prohibition against change, using paradox to counter
