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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Childbirth and Rearing the Young.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.
(a) Entering or leaving.
(b) Dying.
(c) Ill or hospitalized.
(d) Under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

2. Erickson addresses Harold's anxieties and hatred about women in a simple way. He ______ a relationship with a woman who teaches him.
(a) Follows.
(b) Initiates.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Asks about.

3. The dynamic between the parents of the child with the sore was affected because they paid attention to ______ in relation to the chores in a different way.
(a) The other children.
(b) The child.
(c) The therapist.
(d) One another.

4. 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 client
(b) Understanding the anxieties of the client.
(c) Evaluating the client's emotions.
(d) Evaluating the client's history.

5. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of marriage.
(b) The phase of bearing children.
(c) The phase of old age.
(d) The phase of adolescence.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?

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 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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