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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under which heading does Haley address the final stages of life?
(a) "Retirement and Old Age".
(b) "Growing Old".
(c) "When I'm 64".
(d) "Weaning Parents from Children".

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

3. Which title from Chapter 1 shows how indirect communication can be better therapy in some cases?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Causing Change by Communicating in Metaphor".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

4. Haley states in Chapter 2, there is a need for the ______ to make a major adjustment towards the relationship of another family member but also to another family.
(a) Entire family.
(b) Friends.
(c) Parents.
(d) Siblings.

5. Which technique is rooted in two ideas: that at least many unconscious motives are beneficial and that positive reinforcement is most effective in influencing behavior?
(a) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Seeding Ideas".

6. The period of adolescence that often closely predates major mating activity is one of the most important times for people to do what?
(a) Receive any necessary therapy.
(b) Appreciate their families.
(c) Branch out on their own.
(d) Receive medication if needed.

7. The one condition on which Erickson allows couples to fight was that they genuinely seek to what?
(a) Resolve the disagreement in a conclusive and definitive manner.
(b) Not shout.
(c) Not involve their children in their disputes.
(d) Not speak to the therapist as a third party.

8. Which heading in Chapter 1 has the most hypnotic focus?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Seeding Ideas".

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

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

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

12. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?
(a) "The Use of Space and Position".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

13. 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?
(a) "Middle Marriage Difficulties".
(b) "Growing Old Gracefully".
(c) "The Struggle of Marriages".
(d) "Marriage and its Consequences".

14. Milton Erickson came from the American Midwest and received the majority of his education and preliminary work experience in Wisconsin and _____.
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Portland.

15. Erickson was able to encourage an "Asthmatic Mama's boy" out of the role of sickly and meek and out into the realm of what?
(a) Working in construction.
(b) Working in banking.
(c) Opening a small business.
(d) Working in law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Either Harold wasn't truly homosexual in the first place, but had other troubles with women, or was a bisexual who was turned on to women once what?

2. Haley writes of a case in Chapter 5 in which a new mother was so distraught that she was hospitalized; the trouble was that in some cases, the receipt of treatment is used by others in the greater familial context as what?

3. One marital trouble that can occur was exemplified in Chapter 5 as the case of a young wife with a _____ hand.

4. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.

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

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