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

2. A prominent concern is a family entanglement in which Harold needs to alter the dynamic with himself and one of his siblings who is one member of what kind of couple?
(a) Dishonest.
(b) Alcoholic.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Abusive.

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

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.
(a) His appearance.
(b) His sexual orientation
(c) His emotions.
(d) His intellect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. Erickson notes that long-term therapy of only one partner in a marriage makes the marriage what?

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

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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