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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One case in Chapter 6 was about how the therapist helped a mother to re-establish her authority with her son. How old was the child?
(a) Six.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eight.

2. 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) Respectful behavior.
(b) False pleasantries.
(c) Silence.
(d) Positivism.

3. 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) Freud.
(b) Erickson.
(c) Jung.
(d) Mesmer.

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

5. The dynamic between the parents of the child with the sore was affected because they paid attention to ______ in relation to the chores in a different way.
(a) One another.
(b) The child.
(c) The therapist.
(d) The other children.

6. Erickson restricts himself to the truth, which Haley points out as a means that distinguishes him from those seeking to be _____ rather than those who are forthright and have an interest in the welfare of the client.
(a) Helpful.
(b) Interrogative.
(c) Manipulative.
(d) Impulsive.

7. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?
(a) His sexuality.
(b) His fear of abandonment.
(c) His fears of neglect.
(d) An educational concern.

8. 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) Paraplegic.
(b) Estranged.
(c) A mother.
(d) A doctor.

9. Knowledge of Erickson's inaccurate perceptions of the husband has been intentionally sent home through whom/what?
(a) The therapist.
(b) The booklets.
(c) The wife.
(d) The children.

10. In the case where the husband has threatened to kill his wife unless she gives birth to a child of the gender he wants, Erickson recommends the couple do what?
(a) Don't have children.
(b) See a geneticist.
(c) Get an ultrasound.
(d) Divorce.

11. 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 death of a parent.
(b) The intersection of families.
(c) The death of a grandparent.
(d) The arrival of offspring.

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

13. 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) Demonstrative.
(b) Destructive.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Quasi-compulsive.

14. When Erickson did work long-term with a patient, he would change up the _____ of the appointments.
(a) Expectations.
(b) Meeting-place.
(c) Frequency.
(d) Duration.

15. In one example in Chapter 8, Erickson had to work with the parents on their dynamic, including extreme ______ tensions, while at the same time serving as the daughter's therapist.
(a) Psychological.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Extramarital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson in the 20th century insists on addressing the _______ and asserts the right to include other individuals who are part of the trouble.

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

3. For those who glorify ______, older years may have a more difficult psychological impact.

4. The therapists of the 19th-century noticed that there was something deeper going on; here Mesmer and ____ are used as examples

5. 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.

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