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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. The presence of a child or children creates a variant of the _____, which only grows in complexity with the advent of additional children.
(a) "Building blocks".
(b) "Bridge of Connection".
(c) "Family circle".
(d) "Love triangle".

2. Erickson allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.
(a) Prescribed.
(b) Medical.
(c) Follow-up.
(d) Social.

3. The therapist's intent is to be what to the marriage and to each of the partners in it?
(a) Sympathetic.
(b) Coercive.
(c) Dominant.
(d) Apathetic.

4. It stated in Chapter 7 that Erickson recognized that normally the problem was indicative not only of a trouble with _____ but also in social conditions and other influences.
(a) The family.
(b) The patient.
(c) The friends.
(d) The parents.

5. Erickson accepted a client, a young woman who was living with her parents at an age when many other people's children had left home. She had been in a car accident and after recovering had undergone months of what?
(a) Physical therapy.
(b) Surgery.
(c) Hypnotists.
(d) Extensive therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book ends with the wife of the man who had a stroke contacting Erickson after how long, with a request for a new set of therapeutic treatments?

2. In cases where only the wife comes in, the husband has often implied that the therapist is having some kind of relationship with his wife, therefore _____ the relationship.

3. In Erickson's case in Chapter 6 which involved the boy's bed-wetting problem, Erickson suggested that if he didn't wet the bed for a month his parents were obligated to get him what?

4. Erickson worked to encourage a girl in Chapter 8 to voice her criticisms of her mother and re-work her perception of her father's behaviors, which included some incorrect perceptions regarding the parents' _______ .

5. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.

(see the answer key)

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