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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. After Erickson's client secured the job in Chapter 3, the therapist asked for details about how corrections were made when the client revealed that there had been _____.
(a) A promotion.
(b) A foreclosure.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) A resignation.

2. Haley explains that in the most severe cases, Erickson would consider long-term therapy; otherwise, his relationship with clients lasted how long?
(a) Two or three months.
(b) One visit.
(c) One year.
(d) A few weeks.

3. It states in Chapter 2 that therapists often discover that habituated communication problems and other issues, including the involvement of _____, are all highly relevant to the families at this juncture.
(a) Grandparents.
(b) Alcohol and drugs.
(c) Therapists.
(d) Friends and neighbors.

4. In some cases, Erickson offers patients the option to make more complete changes in a shorter time span. In these cases, he assures them that they can, but the greater the transformation, the greater the _________ associated with the changes that will be facilitated by hypnosis.
(a) Composure.
(b) Rehabilitation.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Psychological shock.

5. Erickson is truthful to the client. This includes acknowledging that the pain or other problem may what?
(a) Involve the pain of others.
(b) Never go away.
(c) Continue for some time.
(d) Become a bigger problem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The challenge of the woman with the trembling hand in Chapter 5 was that the wife wanted her husband to do what?

3. 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?

4. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?

5. Under which heading does Haley write that the marriage ceremony is actually very important to more than just those who are marrying?

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