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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. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?
(a) How to administer medications.
(b) How to facilitate desirable change in patients.
(c) How to approach brain chemistry changes.
(d) How to deal with schizophrenia.

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

3. Erickson feels that when the circumstances of a patient need to be changed, it is wrong to prevent healthy growth by substituting ______ for good therapy.
(a) Sedatives.
(b) Family treatment.
(c) Self-help books.
(d) Friendly advice.

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

5. 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.
(a) His appearance.
(b) His intellect.
(c) His sexual orientation
(d) His emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. After other deep work is done and Harold has some very enjoyable experiences with women he does what of his own accord?

2. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.

3. When the post-partum mother does receive therapy, the reasons for why she is so upset about becoming a mother are discussed and where possible her _____.

4. Which technique is rooted in two ideas: that at least many unconscious motives are beneficial and that positive reinforcement is most effective in influencing behavior?

5. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.

(see the answer key)

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