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

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

3. 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) "Revision of nature".
(c) "Communicating in metaphor".
(d) "Encouraging a relapse".

4. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.
(a) Phase of life.
(b) Regression.
(c) Involvement.
(d) Evolution.

5. 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) Discontent.
(d) Upset.

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 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?

3. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.

4. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?

5. The purpose of the therapeutic interventions in Chapter 7 are to provide some _______ regarding the entire situation.

(see the answer key)

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