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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Borderline personality disorder.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Schizophrenia.

2. In one case of a wife who dominated her husband in Chapter 7, if a caller on the phone wouldn't announce who they were she would do what?
(a) Scream.
(b) Hang up.
(c) Cry.
(d) Accuse her husband of adultery.

3. 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) Schizophrenia.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Manic depression.

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

5. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A 10-year-old's headache.
(b) A childhood resentment.
(c) A 7-year-old's headache.
(d) A childish thought.

6. In order to heal the sore on a child's body in the example in Chapter 6, it was necessary for the boy's father to take over what?
(a) His schooling.
(b) Performing his son's domestic chores.
(c) His social arrangements.
(d) His homework.

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

8. 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) Surgery.
(b) Extensive therapy.
(c) Physical therapy.
(d) Hypnotists.

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

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

11. For some parents the transition from being a parent into _________ actually makes it easier for over involved parents to let go of their own offspring.
(a) Empty nesters.
(b) Being a grandparent.
(c) Growing old.
(d) None of the answers is correct..

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

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

14. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?
(a) Make needed changes.
(b) Understand their past.
(c) Understand their feelings.
(d) Understand each other.

15. Haley cites one of Erickson's cases in Chapter 6 where the mother who sought treatment was ultimately what?
(a) Left out.
(b) Faced with adoption.
(c) Divorced.
(d) Imprisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Haley states in Chapter 8 that great dramas are enacted when the dynamic between the parents has grown ______ in any way on their relationships with the offspring.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Erickson relieves a severely injured old man of pain but further enables him to recover greatly from what in Chapter 9?

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