View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Seeding Ideas".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

3. In which situation is it said that new way of finding their equilibrium as a couple is needed?
(a) After childbirth.
(b) When someone passes away.
(c) During divorce.
(d) When parents grow old.

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

5. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.
(a) "Facilitate domination".
(b) "Facilitate the family unit".
(c) "Communicate between the parents".
(d) "Communicate with siblings".

6. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.
(a) Helps a patient to establish contact.
(b) Arranges for a client to contact parental figures.
(c) Sets up interviews with other clients.
(d) Sets up a date.

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

8. Voluntary and involuntary behavior is discussed to show how therapeutic techniques transform an individual into being able to perform certain ______.
(a) New behaviors.
(b) Cognitive recognitions.
(c) Restrictive behaviors.
(d) Trance stages.

9. 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?
(a) An excuse for divorce.
(b) An excuse to unfairly exclude them.
(c) An excuse to coddle them.
(d) An excuse for them to be blamed.

10. Which heading in Chapter 1 shows how Erickson gets the husband to enter therapy just to straighten out the therapist?
(a) "Encouraging a Response by Frustrating It".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

11. 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) Intercourse.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Marriage.

12. When Harold has succeeded in school, Erickson persuades him to drop the idea that he is somehow _____ minded.
(a) Powerfully.
(b) Intelligently.
(c) Feeble.
(d) Strong.

13. Harold became negative about the _______ with whom he had had been sexually involved in a limited sense.
(a) Young women.
(b) Younger men.
(c) Older women.
(d) Ex-girlfriends.

14. Erickson's type of reinforcement in the example in Chapter 3 was incredibly effective and the _____ fell from the forefront into the background of the client's life.
(a) Appendicitis.
(b) Arrhythmia.
(c) Headaches.
(d) Asthma.

15. Once he overcomes the severe effects of the poverty of his childhood, Harold manages to develop a new habit of __________.
(a) Going to nice dinners.
(b) Working out.
(c) Asking guests to his house.
(d) Dressing himself well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which heading of Chapter 2 does Haley state that children develop their own roles within families and parents face serious changes when they leave?

2. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.

3. Haley explains that Erickson, in dealing with ______, does not attempt to change their fundamental nature and does not even try to confront the real problem directly.

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

5. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 644 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample