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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. The case studies in Chapter 6 show that there do not seem to be any __________ of Erickson's use of amnesia.
(a) Pleasant effects.
(b) Detrimental affects.
(c) Immediate effects.
(d) Irreversible effects.

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

3. 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?
(a) "Leaving the Nest".
(b) "Retirement and Old Age".
(c) "Breaking Apron Springs".
(d) "Weaning Parents From Children".

4. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?
(a) Circumstances.
(b) Habituated behavior.
(c) Friends.
(d) Surroundings.

5. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.
(a) "Facilitate the family unit".
(b) "Communicate with siblings".
(c) "Facilitate domination".
(d) "Communicate between the parents".

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harold has succeeded in school, Erickson persuades him to drop the idea that he is somehow _____ minded.

2. Which title from Chapter 1 shows how indirect communication can be better therapy in some cases?

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. 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?

5. Erickson notes that long-term therapy of only one partner in a marriage makes the marriage what?

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