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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.
(a) Innately.
(b) Culturally.
(c) According to society.
(d) Periodically.

2. When Erickson conducts long-term therapy, he does not do it as extensive and lengthy contact with meetings once each week for years. Instead, he does what?
(a) Has telephone sessions.
(b) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(c) Varies the duration of appointments.
(d) Has sessions outside his office.

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) Anxiety.
(b) Weaknesses.
(c) Strengths.
(d) Fears.

4. Haley explains that there are times when _____ rather than the family of origin are the real source of the problem.
(a) Peers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Aunts.
(d) Uncles.

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

6. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.
(a) Ill or hospitalized.
(b) Entering or leaving.
(c) Under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
(d) Dying.

7. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.
(a) Adult.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Adolescent.
(d) Child.

8. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.
(a) Menstruation.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Intercourse.
(d) Marriage.

9. Often enough, if the woman did not have a good experience with what from the beginning would she seek an annulment of the marriage?
(a) With romance.
(b) With sex.
(c) With respect.
(d) With children.

10. One of the most prominent facts about Chapter 5 is that what early in a marriage are a common and readily treatable problem?
(a) Compatibility issues.
(b) Sexual difficulties.
(c) Dominance difficulties.
(d) Financial worries.

11. It is stated in In Chapter 2 that some, but not all, will naturally ________; others will not. This evidently affects the culture.
(a) Leave the nest.
(b) Be homosexual.
(c) Mate for life.
(d) Divorce.

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

13. 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 adolescence.
(c) The phase of old age.
(d) The phase of marriage.

14. The transition from being a child into being an adult involves ______ of the relational patterns between family members.
(a) Removal.
(b) Rearrangement.
(c) Dismissal.
(d) Manipulation.

15. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.
(a) Involvement.
(b) Regression.
(c) Phase of life.
(d) Evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. In Chapter 5, Erickson and Haley both admit that not all young adults want to do what?

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

4. Harold would finally happen into a heterosexual relationship with whom?

5. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that therapy must take into account the reality of how factors outside the marriage and beyond the individual partners have an affect upon what happens and may contain suggestions and warnings about the way to navigate a set of solutions?

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