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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Character Revision of the Young Adult.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Voluntary and involuntary behavior is discussed to show how therapeutic techniques transform an individual into being able to perform certain ______.
(a) Cognitive recognitions.
(b) Restrictive behaviors.
(c) New behaviors.
(d) Trance stages.

2. After Erickson's client secured the job in Chapter 3, the therapist asked for details about how corrections were made when the client revealed that there had been _____.
(a) A foreclosure.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) A resignation.
(d) A promotion.

3. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?
(a) How to administer medications.
(b) How to approach brain chemistry changes.
(c) How to facilitate desirable change in patients.
(d) How to deal with schizophrenia.

4. Erickson was able to encourage an "Asthmatic Mama's boy" out of the role of sickly and meek and out into the realm of what?
(a) Working in construction.
(b) Opening a small business.
(c) Working in banking.
(d) Working in law.

5. The first heading of Chapter 1 is titled _____________; wherein, the individual in therapy is re-educated to view resistance as a form of cooperation in its own right.
(a) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

Short Answer Questions

1. There may be fears, insecurities and inadequacies involved, but Erickson is not so interested in these or in explaining all about the shortcomings to the client, but rather Erickson focuses on helping the client to work towards what?

2. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.

3. 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.

4. It states in Chapter 2 that therapists often discover that habituated communication problems and other issues, including the involvement of _____, are all highly relevant to the families at this juncture.

5. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.

(see the answer key)

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