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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. 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 duration of appointments.
(b) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(c) Has sessions outside his office.
(d) Has telephone sessions.

2. Erickson feels that when the circumstances of a patient need to be changed, it is wrong to prevent healthy growth by substituting ______ for good therapy.
(a) Self-help books.
(b) Sedatives.
(c) Friendly advice.
(d) Family treatment.

3. If a couple is able to remain civil and reasonably safe and sane in their fighting, Erickson ______.
(a) Asks one member to leave.
(b) Encourages it outside the office.
(c) Disapproves regardless.
(d) Strongly approves of it,

4. Erickson notes that long-term therapy of only one partner in a marriage makes the marriage what?
(a) Unnatural.
(b) Happy.
(c) Content.
(d) Strangled.

5. Either Harold wasn't truly homosexual in the first place, but had other troubles with women, or was a bisexual who was turned on to women once what?
(a) He came to terms with his abusive childhood.
(b) His fears of them had been properly addressed.
(c) His sister died.
(d) His parents passed away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson cites examples of a couple that ceased to have an alcohol problem when they did what on weekends?

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

3. 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.

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

5. In what technique does Erickson use trance to release people from deep-seated behavior patterns, some of which have been counter productive or relied upon to reduce fears?

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