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

2. When Erickson conducts long-term therapy, he does not do it as extensive and lengthy contact with meetings once each week for years. Instead, he does what?
(a) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(b) Has telephone sessions.
(c) Varies the duration of appointments.
(d) Has sessions outside his office.

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

4. 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) Angry.
(b) Content.
(c) Upset.
(d) Discontent.

5. Erickson's method is in contrast to other forms of talk therapy where there is a greater emphasis on __________, and the relationship tends to involve weekly meetings for years on end.
(a) Understanding the anxieties of the client.
(b) Evaluating the client's history.
(c) Understanding the client
(d) Evaluating the client's emotions.

Short Answer 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.

2. When the client's real need is _______, Erickson goes out of his way to actually artificially create relationships for his patients.

3. In Chapter 5, Haley writes about a case in which a wealthy woman had to be tranced into more full awareness of her feelings of acceptance during her childhood and how this set a healthy foundation for her to feel confident in her ability to do what?

4. 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.

5. The one condition on which Erickson allows couples to fight was that they genuinely seek to what?

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