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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?
(a) Understand their feelings.
(b) Understand each other.
(c) Understand their past.
(d) Make needed changes.

2. Erickson would use his position to effect a beneficial ______ that leaves the couple reoriented into their new and improved dynamic and empowers them to go back to leaving out the therapist.
(a) Contact.
(b) Association.
(c) Contraception.
(d) Intervention.

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

4. 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?
(a) Leaving her son in a locked closet.
(b) Yelling at her son.
(c) Sitting on her son.
(d) Spanking her son.

5. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1990.

6. The case study in Chapter 8 involving the girl with body issues follows the therapist's instructions to for the daughter to insist upon ______ from the mother as the condition for the presence.
(a) Positivism.
(b) Respectful behavior.
(c) False pleasantries.
(d) Silence.

7. For some parents the transition from being a parent into _________ actually makes it easier for over involved parents to let go of their own offspring.
(a) Being a grandparent.
(b) Growing old.
(c) Empty nesters.
(d) None of the answers is correct..

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

9. 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?
(a) Abrasive behavior.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Reverse psychology.
(d) Hypnosis.

10. Erickson's use of hypnosis is shown through these case studies to be ______.
(a) Somewhat effective.
(b) Invasive.
(c) Abrasive.
(d) Highly effective.

11. There are numerous cases referred to in Chapter 6. One is about a sore that festered for how long?
(a) Six years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six weeks.

12. Erickson allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.
(a) Prescribed.
(b) Medical.
(c) Social.
(d) Follow-up.

13. For people who have a healthy and integrated sense of every stage of life, are surrounded by friends, and well enough ____, the final phase of life can be quite pleasurable and go on for decades.
(a) Acclimated.
(b) Supported.
(c) Funded.
(d) Adjusted.

14. Erickson keyed into the young woman from the car accident's problems when after much probing, he learned that an elder sister had left home, married against the parents' wishes and was now ______.
(a) Going to have a baby.
(b) In rehab.
(c) Hospitalized.
(d) Suicidal.

15. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.
(a) Jung.
(b) Mesmer.
(c) Freud.
(d) Erickson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The case studies in Chapter 6 show that there do not seem to be any __________ of Erickson's use of amnesia.

2. It stated in Chapter 7 that Erickson recognized that normally the problem was indicative not only of a trouble with _____ but also in social conditions and other influences.

3. In order to heal the sore on a child's body in the example in Chapter 6, it was necessary for the boy's father to take over what?

4. Erickson worked to encourage a girl in Chapter 8 to voice her criticisms of her mother and re-work her perception of her father's behaviors, which included some incorrect perceptions regarding the parents' _______ .

5. Erickson is _____ if a husband goes so far as to show up to set the therapist straight on some ways that the therapist has been wrong.

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