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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. 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?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Borderline personality disorder.

2. It is stated in In Chapter 2 that some, but not all, will naturally ________; others will not. This evidently affects the culture.
(a) Mate for life.
(b) Be homosexual.
(c) Leave the nest.
(d) Divorce.

3. Who is the patient Mesmer took in Chapter 8?
(a) Miss Paradis.
(b) Miss Sarah.
(c) Miss Chatworth.
(d) Miss Duonet.

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

5. The therapist prescribes a specific course of action with the boy with behavioral problems in Chapter 6. With his direction and his assurance that her son is not being put in danger from doing so, the mother spends an entire day doing what?
(a) Leaving her son in a locked closet.
(b) Spanking her son.
(c) Yelling at her son.
(d) Sitting on her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley cites one of Erickson's cases in Chapter 6 where the mother who sought treatment was ultimately what?

2. The therapist's intent is to be what to the marriage and to each of the partners in it?

3. A great part of the therapist's role is to supply _______ over one or more people in a temporary manner to facilitate a cure or other effective treatment of a problem.

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

5. What occurrence either forces or allows other relatives, be it the father or extended family, a great chance to take care of the baby?

(see the answer key)

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