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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. 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)?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Amnesia and Control of Information".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

2. In some cases, Erickson offers patients the option to make more complete changes in a shorter time span. In these cases, he assures them that they can, but the greater the transformation, the greater the _________ associated with the changes that will be facilitated by hypnosis.
(a) Resentment.
(b) Rehabilitation.
(c) Composure.
(d) Psychological shock.

3. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?
(a) His fear of abandonment.
(b) An educational concern.
(c) His sexuality.
(d) His fears of neglect.

4. Harold's experience with his first relationship was so good that he voluntarily reconsidered his own views and chose to do what?
(a) Pursue women.
(b) Have children.
(c) Pursue men.
(d) Have a sex change.

5. In which situation is it said that new way of finding their equilibrium as a couple is needed?
(a) During divorce.
(b) When someone passes away.
(c) After childbirth.
(d) When parents grow old.

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 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.

3. Erickson is _____ if a husband goes so far as to show up to set the therapist straight on some ways that the therapist has been wrong.

4. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?

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

(see the answer key)

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