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

2. Which heading in Chapter 1 shows how Erickson gets the husband to enter therapy just to straighten out the therapist?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging a Response by Frustrating It".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

3. The need to help the growing youths integrate into the community life without insufficient or excessive ________ is important throughout and continues when people have become parents.
(a) Familial involvement.
(b) Babying.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Over-protection.

4. Haley explains that in the most severe cases, Erickson would consider long-term therapy; otherwise, his relationship with clients lasted how long?
(a) One visit.
(b) Two or three months.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) One year.

5. Which title from Chapter 1 is also used for negative reinforcement and as a means to redirect patients?
(a) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

Short Answer Questions

1. One case of Chapter 4 includes a man named Harold who asserts that he is homosexual and hates women. He is also what?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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