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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Marriage and Its Consequences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of adolescence.
(b) The phase of marriage.
(c) The phase of bearing children.
(d) The phase of old age.

2. Haley explains that in the most severe cases, Erickson would consider long-term therapy; otherwise, his relationship with clients lasted how long?
(a) Two or three months.
(b) A few weeks.
(c) One year.
(d) One visit.

3. It states in Chapter 2 that therapists often discover that habituated communication problems and other issues, including the involvement of _____, are all highly relevant to the families at this juncture.
(a) Alcohol and drugs.
(b) Therapists.
(c) Grandparents.
(d) Friends and neighbors.

4. Under which heading of Chapter 1 does it state that therapy now helps patients make changes without any focus on understanding why the previous behavior had existed?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Awakening and Disengagement".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

5. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.
(a) Dying.
(b) Under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
(c) Entering or leaving.
(d) Ill or hospitalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cases in Chapter 5 typically include whom in the couple?

2. Under which heading of Chapter 1 is it stated that Erickson emphasized both the autonomy and togetherness of family members?

3. The need to help the growing youths integrate into the community life without insufficient or excessive ________ is important throughout and continues when people have become parents.

4. Erickson was able to encourage an "Asthmatic Mama's boy" out of the role of sickly and meek and out into the realm of what?

5. Once he overcomes the severe effects of the poverty of his childhood, Harold manages to develop a new habit of __________.

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