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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Marriage & Family Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In some cases, Erickson offers patients the option to make more complete changes in a shorter time span. In these cases, he assures them that they can, but the greater the transformation, the greater the _________ associated with the changes that will be facilitated by hypnosis.
(a) Resentment.
(b) Rehabilitation.
(c) Psychological shock.
(d) Composure.

2. Haley writes of one case in which a woman was directly threatened with death by her husband over what?
(a) The gender of their baby.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her infidelity.
(d) Her spending.

3. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A childhood resentment.
(b) A 10-year-old's headache.
(c) A 7-year-old's headache.
(d) A childish thought.

4. One case of Chapter 4 includes a man named Harold who asserts that he is homosexual and hates women. He is also what?
(a) Wealthy and attractive.
(b) Financially poor and an idiot.
(c) Deaf and mute.
(d) Married with children.

5. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.
(a) Phase of life.
(b) Regression.
(c) Involvement.
(d) Evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson would use his position to effect a beneficial ______ that leaves the couple reoriented into their new and improved dynamic and empowers them to go back to leaving out the therapist.

2. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.

3. In one scenario in Chapter 5, Erickson was ignorant in matters of baby gender prediction, but he did recommend _____ to avert disaster.

4. In a nonviolent case, Erickson often encourages _____ within a couple.

5. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?

(see the answer key)

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