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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. Erickson restricts himself to the truth, which Haley points out as a means that distinguishes him from those seeking to be _____ rather than those who are forthright and have an interest in the welfare of the client.
(a) Impulsive.
(b) Manipulative.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Interrogative.

2. The therapists of the 19th-century noticed that there was something deeper going on; here Mesmer and ____ are used as examples
(a) Erickson.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Freud.
(d) Jung.

3. When Harold has succeeded in school, Erickson persuades him to drop the idea that he is somehow _____ minded.
(a) Intelligently.
(b) Feeble.
(c) Powerfully.
(d) Strong.

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

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

Short Answer 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.

2. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.

3. Haley writes of a case in Chapter 5 in which a new mother was so distraught that she was hospitalized; the trouble was that in some cases, the receipt of treatment is used by others in the greater familial context as what?

4. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?

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?

(see the answer key)

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