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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 client in Chapter 5 received therapy for a few months and then simply lost or stuffed down her symptoms and is written of as having _______ since.
(a) Been hospitalized.
(b) Behaved normally.
(c) Gotten divorced.
(d) Committed suicide.

2. 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?
(a) "Frustrating the problem".
(b) "Communicating in metaphor".
(c) "Revision of nature".
(d) "Encouraging a relapse".

3. The one condition on which Erickson allows couples to fight was that they genuinely seek to what?
(a) Resolve the disagreement in a conclusive and definitive manner.
(b) Not involve their children in their disputes.
(c) Not shout.
(d) Not speak to the therapist as a third party.

4. Erickson cites examples of a couple that ceased to have an alcohol problem when they did what on weekends?
(a) Went driving.
(b) Went to restaurants.
(c) Went shopping.
(d) Went camping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.

2. Erickson at times uses his own what to facilitate the husband's willingness to meet the therapist and to experience some therapy?

3. 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?

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

5. One case of Chapter 4 includes a man named Harold who asserts that he is homosexual and hates women. He is also what?

(see the answer key)

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