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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson accepted a client, a young woman who was living with her parents at an age when many other people's children had left home. She had been in a car accident and after recovering had undergone months of what?
(a) Physical therapy.
(b) Extensive therapy.
(c) Hypnotists.
(d) Surgery.

2. Where was the man from whom Erickson helped to walk in Chapter 9?
(a) India.
(b) Prussia.
(c) France.
(d) Russia.

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

4. Haley reports that power struggles about who is _____ in a marriage are quite normal during the early years.
(a) Anxious.
(b) Submissive.
(c) Dominant.
(d) Unhappy.

5. 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) Quasi-compulsive.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Demonstrative.

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

7. Haley notes in Chapter 8 that people may or may not recognize that they need to be _______ their own children.
(a) Weaned off.
(b) Assisted by.
(c) Left by.
(d) Taught by.

8. The parents in one example in Chapter 8 were so competitive, that one of the parents had spent a week in the same town where the daughter lived for the sole purpose of helping the daughter do what?
(a) Get to therapy.
(b) Do laundry.
(c) Do her homework.
(d) Call home.

9. 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.

10. The child who had the festering sore improved in _____ and the family's situation had found its new equilibrium.
(a) Reading.
(b) Math.
(c) Science.
(d) Spelling.

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

12. 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) Fourteen.
(b) Six.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eight.

13. A great part of the therapist's role is to supply _______ over one or more people in a temporary manner to facilitate a cure or other effective treatment of a problem.
(a) Needed control.
(b) Physical support.
(c) Emotional support.
(d) Companionship.

14. 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) Interrogative.
(b) Helpful.
(c) Impulsive.
(d) Manipulative.

15. Chapter 7 deals with issues of what?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Marriage and family dilemmas
(d) Old age and dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley writes in Chapter 8 that the most destructive parents are not those who treat their children badly but those who are what?

2. 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.

3. Erickson allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.

4. When the post-partum mother does receive therapy, the reasons for why she is so upset about becoming a mother are discussed and where possible her _____.

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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