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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Erickson gently refuses to help the man who had the stroke again in Chapter 9, claiming that even though it worked before, her husband is probably _____for his therapy to be effective.
(a) Too old.
(b) Not willing.
(c) Too hurt.
(d) Too stubborn.

6. 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) Sexual.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Extramarital.

7. 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) Divorce.
(c) See a geneticist.
(d) Get an ultrasound.

8. In some cases in Chapter 8, one or more parents would interfere or remove the patient from therapy once what?
(a) The child was upset.
(b) The child was angry.
(c) No improvements were detected.
(d) Improvements were effected.

9. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?
(a) Habituated behavior.
(b) Friends.
(c) Surroundings.
(d) Circumstances.

10. 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) A doctor.
(c) A mother.
(d) Estranged.

11. 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.
(a) The friends.
(b) The patient.
(c) The family.
(d) The parents.

12. 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) Impulsive.
(c) Interrogative.
(d) Manipulative.

13. In the example of the woman in the car accident in Chapter 8, the therapist was not even able to apply _____ that would actually alleviate the young woman's chronic pain.
(a) Mental help.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Medication.
(d) Surgery.

14. Erickson cites examples of a couple that ceased to have an alcohol problem when they did what on weekends?
(a) Went shopping.
(b) Went driving.
(c) Went to restaurants.
(d) Went camping.

15. Erickson notes that long-term therapy of only one partner in a marriage makes the marriage what?
(a) Content.
(b) Happy.
(c) Strangled.
(d) Unnatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patient Mesmer took in Chapter 8?

2. Solving problems associated with alcohol, prescription tranquilizer, and illegal drug use are all included in what chapter?

3. Erickson at times uses his own what to facilitate the husband's willingness to meet the therapist and to experience some therapy?

4. 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?

5. Haley touches on what has come to be referred to as ______ or maternal psychosis. In the most extreme cases, the mother might be hospitalized.

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