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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. What is the title of Chapter 1 in the book?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Seeding Ideas".
(d) "Strategic Therapy".

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

3. The first heading of Chapter 1 is titled _____________; wherein, the individual in therapy is re-educated to view resistance as a form of cooperation in its own right.
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Providing a Worse Alternative".

4. Under which heading of Chapter 1 is it stated that Erickson emphasized both the autonomy and togetherness of family members?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Awakening and Disengagement".

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.

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?

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