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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Marriage and Family Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The amnesia seems to be for the purpose of helping the clients themselves to be able to feel as if he has not done what?
(a) Invaded them.
(b) Spoken to their relatives.
(c) Spoken to them.
(d) Discovered their childhoods.

3. The one condition on which Erickson allows couples to fight was that they genuinely seek to what?
(a) Not involve their children in their disputes.
(b) Not shout.
(c) Not speak to the therapist as a third party.
(d) Resolve the disagreement in a conclusive and definitive manner.

4. In Chapter 5, Haley writes about a case in which a wealthy woman had to be tranced into more full awareness of her feelings of acceptance during her childhood and how this set a healthy foundation for her to feel confident in her ability to do what?
(a) Have sexual intercourse.
(b) Be a good mother.
(c) Be a good wife.
(d) Speak to her husband about insecurity.

5. The challenge of the woman with the trembling hand in Chapter 5 was that the wife wanted her husband to do what?
(a) Get an education.
(b) Have children.
(c) Change careers.
(d) Support her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which heading in Chapter 1 cultivates a response until a goal is reached?

2. When Erickson did work long-term with a patient, he would change up the _____ of the appointments.

3. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.

4. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?

5. Erickson's type of reinforcement in the example in Chapter 3 was incredibly effective and the _____ fell from the forefront into the background of the client's life.

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