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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 allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.
(a) Follow-up.
(b) Social.
(c) Prescribed.
(d) Medical.

2. Haley reports that power struggles about who is _____ in a marriage are quite normal during the early years.
(a) Anxious.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Dominant.
(d) Submissive.

3. Under which heading of Chapter 1 does it state that therapy now helps patients make changes without any focus on understanding why the previous behavior had existed?
(a) "Awakening and Disengagement".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

4. Haley explains that Erickson, in dealing with ______, does not attempt to change their fundamental nature and does not even try to confront the real problem directly.
(a) Parents.
(b) Children.
(c) Grandparents.
(d) Adolescents.

5. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.
(a) Adult.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Child.
(d) Adolescent.

Short Answer Questions

1. One case in Chapter 6 was about how the therapist helped a mother to re-establish her authority with her son. How old was the child?

2. Haley writes of one case in which a woman was directly threatened with death by her husband over what?

3. In cases where only the wife comes in, the husband has often implied that the therapist is having some kind of relationship with his wife, therefore _____ the relationship.

4. Erickson at times uses his own what to facilitate the husband's willingness to meet the therapist and to experience some therapy?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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