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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. Erickson is _____ if a husband goes so far as to show up to set the therapist straight on some ways that the therapist has been wrong.
(a) Discontent.
(b) Upset.
(c) Content.
(d) Angry.

2. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Circumstances.
(c) Surroundings.
(d) Habituated behavior.

3. In one scenario in Chapter 5, Erickson was ignorant in matters of baby gender prediction, but he did recommend _____ to avert disaster.
(a) Medication.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Institutionalization.
(d) Separation.

4. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.
(a) Mother-in-law.
(b) Sister.
(c) Mother's mother.
(d) Father.

5. Knowledge of Erickson's inaccurate perceptions of the husband has been intentionally sent home through whom/what?
(a) The wife.
(b) The therapist.
(c) The booklets.
(d) The children.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. If a couple is able to remain civil and reasonably safe and sane in their fighting, Erickson ______.

4. Erickson does not tell Harold there is anything wrong with _________; he tells Harold that he wants to put Harold into a position to be open to changing or keeping his ideas about himself.

5. Haley writes of a case in Chapter 5 in which a new mother was so distraught that she was hospitalized; the trouble was that in some cases, the receipt of treatment is used by others in the greater familial context as what?

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