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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first example Haley gives in Chapter 9 involves a man with an intense fear of what?
(a) Women.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Elevators.
(d) Heights.

2. What is the name of the man whom Erickson treats in Chapter 8 who had lost 80 lbs. in 6 months?
(a) Sean.
(b) Harold.
(c) Steven.
(d) Herbert.

3. 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.
(a) Institutionalized.
(b) Sent to boarding school.
(c) Heartbroken.
(d) Sent to live with her grandparents.

4. 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) An educational concern.
(b) His fear of abandonment.
(c) His sexuality.
(d) His fears of neglect.

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

6. The case studies in Chapter 6 show that there do not seem to be any __________ of Erickson's use of amnesia.
(a) Detrimental affects.
(b) Pleasant effects.
(c) Irreversible effects.
(d) Immediate effects.

7. 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' _______ .
(a) Hospitalization.
(b) Sexual difficulties.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Overbearing-ness.

8. 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) Suicidal.
(b) In rehab.
(c) Hospitalized.
(d) Going to have a baby.

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

10. What occurrence either forces or allows other relatives, be it the father or extended family, a great chance to take care of the baby?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Death of a parent.
(c) Post-partum depression.
(d) Childhood disability.

11. Solving problems associated with alcohol, prescription tranquilizer, and illegal drug use are all included in what chapter?
(a) Chapter 9.
(b) Chapter 2.
(c) Chapter 6.
(d) Chapter 7.

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

13. Erickson would combine acceptance of the patient's condition upon entering treatment with hypnosis and ______ modes of intervention.
(a) Massage.
(b) Invasive.
(c) Non-hypnotic.
(d) Therapeutic.

14. The therapists of the 19th-century noticed that there was something deeper going on; here Mesmer and ____ are used as examples
(a) Freud.
(b) Jung.
(c) Erickson.
(d) Jackson.

15. Erickson feels that when the circumstances of a patient need to be changed, it is wrong to prevent healthy growth by substituting ______ for good therapy.
(a) Sedatives.
(b) Friendly advice.
(c) Family treatment.
(d) Self-help books.

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. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. In what year was the book published?

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