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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The parents in Chapter 8 who had dependency issues revisited the therapist when their daughter became ______. They weren't sure how often they should visit.
(a) A doctor.
(b) Estranged.
(c) Paraplegic.
(d) A mother.

2. Chapter 9 deals with what aspect of life?
(a) Growing old.
(b) Having children.
(c) Getting divorced.
(d) Getting married.

3. 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) Hypnosis.
(b) Abrasive behavior.
(c) Amnesia.
(d) Reverse psychology.

4. 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) Contraception.
(b) Contact.
(c) Association.
(d) Intervention.

5. In one example in Chapter 8, a girl's _______ needed improvement, and she needed to lose a lot of weight.
(a) Body image.
(b) Social life.
(c) Sense of style.
(d) Family life.

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

7. 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) Funded.
(b) Supported.
(c) Adjusted.
(d) Acclimated.

8. Erickson notes in Chapter 8 that when you start defending "my rights," you become a what?
(a) Patient.
(b) Confidant.
(c) Ally.
(d) Friend.

9. Haley observes that there are repercussions throughout the family system (meaning people of the families that led up to this union are affected by the turn of events) when what occurs?
(a) The intersection of families.
(b) The arrival of offspring.
(c) The death of a grandparent.
(d) The death of a parent.

10. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.
(a) Loving.
(b) Neglectful.
(c) Insecure.
(d) Suspicious.

11. The elderly man in Chapter 9 is first roused from nearly a full year in bed by being _______ by his therapist.
(a) Whispered to.
(b) Offered food.
(c) Verbally tormented.
(d) Praised.

12. Erickson is able to _____ the man into proving to himself and the others that he can in fact get up and is even able to make it to the car.
(a) Flatter.
(b) Convince.
(c) Provoke.
(d) Lure.

13. Haley touches on what has come to be referred to as ______ or maternal psychosis. In the most extreme cases, the mother might be hospitalized.
(a) Post-partum depression.
(b) Manic depression.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Schizophrenia.

14. Erickson at times uses his own what to facilitate the husband's willingness to meet the therapist and to experience some therapy?
(a) Response.
(b) Coerciveness.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Masculinity.

15. Once Erickson helped the family of the boy with the sore, it cured the boy of his festering sore and the _______ behavior that had accompanied it.
(a) Quasi-compulsive.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Demonstrative.
(d) Destructive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?

2. One example in Chapter 8 is a case where a teenager is _______ because she relates the fact that her mother has been having an affair with a local wealthy man.

3. 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?

4. When Erickson did work long-term with a patient, he would change up the _____ of the appointments.

5. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?

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