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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Pain of Old Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson in the 20th century insists on addressing the _______ and asserts the right to include other individuals who are part of the trouble.
(a) History of the patient.
(b) Childhood difficulties.
(c) Patient's dream life.
(d) Actual problem.

2. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?
(a) An independent adult.
(b) A codependent adult.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) A functioning adult.

3. In one example in Chapter 3, a client's intense fear is eventually overcome by Erickson's encouragement and relating to the patient's _____.
(a) Fears.
(b) Weaknesses.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Strengths.

4. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1973.

5. 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.
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Under which heading of Chapter 1 does it state that therapy now helps patients make changes without any focus on understanding why the previous behavior had existed?

3. Where additional education is needed, Erickson recommends it; for instance, _________ can educate girls whose mothers or other older women did not properly train in make up or fashion.

4. One extreme example of dependency in Chapter 8 is when a young woman goes off to college and her parents build an addition to the house so she can live there while she is an adult, including when?

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

(see the answer key)

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