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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Character Revision of the Young Adult.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?
(a) A functioning adult.
(b) A codependent adult.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) An independent adult.

2. Where additional education is needed, Erickson recommends it; for instance, _________ can educate girls whose mothers or other older women did not properly train in make up or fashion.
(a) Therapists.
(b) Aunts or cousins.
(c) Sisters and cousins.
(d) Professional beauty assistants.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Which heading in Chapter 1 shows how Erickson gets the husband to enter therapy just to straighten out the therapist?

3. Haley explains that in the most severe cases, Erickson would consider long-term therapy; otherwise, his relationship with clients lasted how long?

4. 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?

5. The transition from being a child into being an adult involves ______ of the relational patterns between family members.

(see the answer key)

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