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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Uncommon Therapy : Chapter 2, The Family Cycle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that therapy must take into account the reality of how factors outside the marriage and beyond the individual partners have an affect upon what happens and may contain suggestions and warnings about the way to navigate a set of solutions?
(a) "Growing Old Gracefully".
(b) "The Struggle of Marriages".
(c) "Middle Marriage Difficulties".
(d) "Marriage and its Consequences".

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

3. Which title from Chapter 1 shows how indirect communication can be better therapy in some cases?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Causing Change by Communicating in Metaphor".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

4. Haley states in Chapter 2, there is a need for the ______ to make a major adjustment towards the relationship of another family member but also to another family.
(a) Friends.
(b) Parents.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Entire family.

5. Which technique is rooted in two ideas: that at least many unconscious motives are beneficial and that positive reinforcement is most effective in influencing behavior?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Seeding Ideas".

Short Answer Questions

1. Voluntary and involuntary behavior is discussed to show how therapeutic techniques transform an individual into being able to perform certain ______.

2. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?

3. 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.

4. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.

5. The presence of a child or children creates a variant of the _____, which only grows in complexity with the advent of additional children.

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