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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Weaning Parents from Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(c) "Strategic Therapy".
(d) "Family orientation".

2. Which heading in Chapter 1 cultivates a response until a goal is reached?
(a) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Amplifying a Deviation".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

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.
(a) His appearance.
(b) His sexual orientation
(c) His intellect.
(d) His emotions.

4. There are numerous cases referred to in Chapter 6. One is about a sore that festered for how long?
(a) One year.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Six years.
(d) Two years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which heading of Chapter 2 does Haley state that children develop their own roles within families and parents face serious changes when they leave?

2. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?

3. Once he overcomes the severe effects of the poverty of his childhood, Harold manages to develop a new habit of __________.

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

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.

(see the answer key)

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