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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For those who glorify ______, older years may have a more difficult psychological impact.
(a) Youth culture.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Babies.
(d) Early family life.

2. 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.

3. The book ends with the wife of the man who had a stroke contacting Erickson after how long, with a request for a new set of therapeutic treatments?
(a) A decade.
(b) Two years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Six years.

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

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

6. In cases where only the wife comes in, the husband has often implied that the therapist is having some kind of relationship with his wife, therefore _____ the relationship.
(a) Complicating.
(b) Triangulating.
(c) Irritating.
(d) Emasculating.

7. The therapist prescribes a specific course of action with the boy with behavioral problems in Chapter 6. With his direction and his assurance that her son is not being put in danger from doing so, the mother spends an entire day doing what?
(a) Spanking her son.
(b) Leaving her son in a locked closet.
(c) Sitting on her son.
(d) Yelling at her son.

8. 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) Manipulative.
(d) Impulsive.

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

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

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

12. Part of Erickson's method is not to ________. This is described as being on the service of truth and unity even though it may sound artificial. He does this consistently as a rule of thumb.
(a) Tell the immediate truth.
(b) See the entire family.
(c) Uniformly side with the same family member.
(d) See one patient solely.

13. 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) Dominance.
(b) Hospitalization.
(c) Sexual difficulties.
(d) Overbearing-ness.

14. 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.

15. 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.

Short Answer 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?

2. Haley notes in Chapter 8 that people may or may not recognize that they need to be _______ their own children.

3. In Erickson's case in Chapter 6 which involved the boy's bed-wetting problem, Erickson suggested that if he didn't wet the bed for a month his parents were obligated to get him what?

4. The husband who threatens to kill his wife about the gender of their child is of what occupation?

5. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?

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