The exam was created in a collaboration between AMFTRB and PES (Professional Exam Services). AMFTRB has a sub-committee which is responsible for developing exam "items". This committee meets a number of times per year and follows a carefully designed protocol to develop questions. The exam was not created by AAMFT and has no official relationship to AAMFT or any other professional association.
The purpose of exam is to provide a consistent and quantifiable measure of the licensure candidate's knowledge level. The AMFTRB has established a knowledge level for licensure as being reflecting "entry level in the field of marriage and family therapy." For more detailed information regarding the exam's purpose, please explore the following, https://amftrb.org/mft-exam/exam-info/.
Yes. If you visit www.amftrb.org you can find a wealth of information about exam questions as well as a few sample questions. Family Solutions' Practice Exams are offered with unlimited access, 90 day subscriptions via FSI's eStudy Program in both 100/200 question formats randomly drawn from our extensive question bank based and then weighted across AMFTRB trends. A personalized progress report is prepared each time you take an FSI exam highlighting your strengths and weaknesses along with other valuable feedback in order to help you remediate your weaknesses. Don't take the actual AMFTRB exam without first taking a few sample [...]
The exam is difficult and changes somewhat each time it is offered. Read our testimonials and discussion forum threads for more details. Generally, many people say the exam was harder than they expected, while some do say it was easier. Almost everyone says it is more a test of academic knowledge in the MFT field, rather than being a good measure of clinical skills. As the exam questions are kept confidential by AMFTRB it is impossible to tell exactly what questions will be on your exam. Certain patterns exist which is how we at FSI can help you prepare for [...]
First of all, get in touch with FSI. We may be able to help you figure out why you failed. If you are a previous FSI Workshop participant, call your FSI faculty member and discuss the situation. If not, you may want to consider registering for an FSI Workshop.We will help find your weak areas of preparation and help you strengthen them. Also, if you have already taken an FSI workshop you are automatically eligible to re-take the Workshop one more time for a nominal materials charge, which is usually about $100.00. Second, you should plan to take the exam [...]
Picture your task as having 4 steps : Needs assessment, Planning, Collecting and organizing materials, and Studying or practicing. In addition, passing the exam requires 2 basic skill areas: Content of the MFT field and Standardized test-taking strategies. The first 3 preparation steps (assessment, planning and organizing) you will need for both skill sets. In place of studying, which applies to content areas, test-taking strategies can be developed by taking practice exams. No one should take the MFT license exam without having taken at least 2 carefully designed practice tests which correctly simulate the actual exam. FSI recommends that you [...]
Licensure requirements are set by each state in the U.S. individually. All states with the exception of California use the AMFTRB exam and the material provided by Family Solutions can also be very helpful in your preparation even for the California exam. There is talk that California will eventually adopt the AMFTRB exam in the future. Check your own state's licensing regulations. In general, qualifications mirror requirements for Clinical Membership at AAMFT. If you meet the educational requirements for Clinical Membership you should qualify. The number of approved supervision hours, the standards for approved supervision and direct contact hours can [...]
Family Solutions has developed an Intensive Virtual Preparation Workshop to help you prepare for the AMFTRB Exam. After presenting this workshop nationally for 25 years, we now present this workshop via DVD or Streaming Video which we have found to be more beneficial for your preparation as we have added a full, extra day of didactic teaching (11 hours) with an embedded PowerPoint. The Virtual Workshop may be bundled with the HomeStudy Program for an additional $75 savings!
Registration for the AMFTRB National licensing exam is managed by each state’s regulatory agency. Check the AMFTRB’s web site at: www.amftrb.org. You can also call your state’s agency that regulates MFT’s. This is usually something like a “Division of Professional Regulation” of the Secretary of State’s office, although some times it is put in a Department of Public Health. If you can’t find the agency, check one of the above web sites and/or call the information line for your state government. It’s often the same agency that regulates Psychologists and Social Workers. You can also check with the officers of [...]
