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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. 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?
(a) An excuse to unfairly exclude them.
(b) An excuse for divorce.
(c) An excuse to coddle them.
(d) An excuse for them to be blamed.

2. After Harold has acquired better habits of dress, he begins to spontaneously seek ______ and to get it.
(a) Better work.
(b) Education.
(c) Girlfriends.
(d) Boyfriends.

3. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?
(a) An educational concern.
(b) His fears of neglect.
(c) His fear of abandonment.
(d) His sexuality.

4. In order to heal the sore on a child's body in the example in Chapter 6, it was necessary for the boy's father to take over what?
(a) His social arrangements.
(b) Performing his son's domestic chores.
(c) His schooling.
(d) His homework.

5. The period of adolescence that often closely predates major mating activity is one of the most important times for people to do what?
(a) Receive any necessary therapy.
(b) Receive medication if needed.
(c) Branch out on their own.
(d) Appreciate their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the client's real need is _______, Erickson goes out of his way to actually artificially create relationships for his patients.

2. Once Erickson helped the family of the boy with the sore, it cured the boy of his festering sore and the _______ behavior that had accompanied it.

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

4. Eventually, through a lengthy process including both success and failure, Erickson gets Harold to complete what?

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?

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