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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Weaning Parents from Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurrence either forces or allows other relatives, be it the father or extended family, a great chance to take care of the baby?
(a) Post-partum depression.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Death of a parent.
(d) Childhood disability.

2. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.
(a) Helps a patient to establish contact.
(b) Sets up interviews with other clients.
(c) Sets up a date.
(d) Arranges for a client to contact parental figures.

3. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?
(a) "Amnesia and Control of Information".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

4. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.
(a) Freud.
(b) Mesmer.
(c) Erickson.
(d) Jung.

5. Often enough, if the woman did not have a good experience with what from the beginning would she seek an annulment of the marriage?
(a) With children.
(b) With romance.
(c) With sex.
(d) With respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that what occurs here is that couples are faced with dynamic challenges?

2. 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.

3. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?

4. Haley states in Chapter 8 that great dramas are enacted when the dynamic between the parents has grown ______ in any way on their relationships with the offspring.

5. Harold succeeds in cultivating a friendship with an unintelligent ______ man who has been highly effective at making the best of who he is.

(see the answer key)

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