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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 use of hypnosis in Chapter 9 is used primarily to do what?
(a) Alleviate pain.
(b) Assist childbirth.
(c) Overcome addictions.
(d) End grief.

2. 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?
(a) After marriage.
(b) After they've died.
(c) After college.
(d) After she's disowned them.

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

4. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?
(a) How to approach brain chemistry changes.
(b) How to deal with schizophrenia.
(c) How to administer medications.
(d) How to facilitate desirable change in patients.

5. Erickson relieves a severely injured old man of pain but further enables him to recover greatly from what in Chapter 9?
(a) Polio.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A seizure.
(d) A stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is often an integral part of Erickson's treatment plan?

2. In one scenario in Chapter 5, Erickson was ignorant in matters of baby gender prediction, but he did recommend _____ to avert disaster.

3. Hypnosis is described as a special way of _______.

4. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?

5. The suggestion of Erickson's in Chapter 6 is that he takes what action to protect the over-all wellbeing of the mind of the patient?

(see the answer key)

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