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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Providing a Worse Alternative".

2. Eventually, through a lengthy process including both success and failure, Erickson gets Harold to complete what?
(a) Military enrollment.
(b) Grade school.
(c) Trade school.
(d) High school.

3. Harold succeeds in cultivating a friendship with an unintelligent ______ man who has been highly effective at making the best of who he is.
(a) Educated.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Fatherly.
(d) Handicapped.

4. Erickson's method is in contrast to other forms of talk therapy where there is a greater emphasis on __________, and the relationship tends to involve weekly meetings for years on end.
(a) Evaluating the client's emotions.
(b) Understanding the client
(c) Evaluating the client's history.
(d) Understanding the anxieties of the client.

5. When Erickson conducts long-term therapy, he does not do it as extensive and lengthy contact with meetings once each week for years. Instead, he does what?
(a) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(b) Varies the duration of appointments.
(c) Has sessions outside his office.
(d) Has telephone sessions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?

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?

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. After Erickson's client secured the job in Chapter 3, the therapist asked for details about how corrections were made when the client revealed that there had been _____.

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