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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Weaning Parents from Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.
(a) Phase of life.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Involvement.
(d) Regression.

2. When the client's real need is _______, Erickson goes out of his way to actually artificially create relationships for his patients.
(a) Parenting.
(b) Friends.
(c) Social contact.
(d) Sexual contact.

3. Erickson addresses Harold's anxieties and hatred about women in a simple way. He ______ a relationship with a woman who teaches him.
(a) Follows.
(b) Initiates.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Asks about.

4. Which title from Chapter 1 is also used for negative reinforcement and as a means to redirect patients?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Providing a Worse Alternative".

5. 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) Discovered their childhoods.
(b) Invaded them.
(c) Spoken to their relatives.
(d) Spoken to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.

2. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.

3. Part of Erickson's method is not to ________. This is described as being on the service of truth and unity even though it may sound artificial. He does this consistently as a rule of thumb.

4. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.

5. Erickson's use of intentional forms of amnesia as part of the trance is done in order to _________ and to empower individuals to make certain changes.

(see the answer key)

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