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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. Which heading in Chapter 1 shows how Erickson gets the husband to enter therapy just to straighten out the therapist?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Encouraging a Response by Frustrating It".

2. Haley writes in Chapter 8 that the most destructive parents are not those who treat their children badly but those who are what?
(a) Manipulative.
(b) Alcoholic.
(c) Overprotective.
(d) Insensitive.

3. The 19th-century method was to treat a patient in what way?
(a) With the family.
(b) On an individual basis.
(c) By hypnosis.
(d) Within the hospital.

4. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of bearing children.
(b) The phase of marriage.
(c) The phase of old age.
(d) The phase of adolescence.

5. Harold became negative about the _______ with whom he had had been sexually involved in a limited sense.
(a) Younger men.
(b) Ex-girlfriends.
(c) Older women.
(d) Young women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley states in Chapter 8 that great dramas are enacted when the dynamic between the parents has grown ______ in any way on their relationships with the offspring.

2. Haley notes in Chapter 8 that people may or may not recognize that they need to be _______ their own children.

3. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.

4. In which situation is it said that new way of finding their equilibrium as a couple is needed?

5. In one example in Chapter 8, a girl's _______ needed improvement, and she needed to lose a lot of weight.

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