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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Harold has acquired better habits of dress, he begins to spontaneously seek ______ and to get it.
(a) Better work.
(b) Girlfriends.
(c) Education.
(d) Boyfriends.

2. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.
(a) Heart attacks.
(b) Polio.
(c) Strokes.
(d) Nervous breakdowns.

3. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.
(a) Menstruation.
(b) Intercourse.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Childbirth.

4. Which heading in Chapter 1 cultivates a response until a goal is reached?
(a) "Amplifying a Deviation".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

5. Erickson's type of reinforcement in the example in Chapter 3 was incredibly effective and the _____ fell from the forefront into the background of the client's life.
(a) Asthma.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Appendicitis.
(d) Arrhythmia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley writes of a case in Chapter 5 in which a new mother was so distraught that she was hospitalized; the trouble was that in some cases, the receipt of treatment is used by others in the greater familial context as what?

2. In most of the examples referred to in Chapter 3, success in dating leads not only into marriage, but also into ____.

3. Harold became negative about the _______ with whom he had had been sexually involved in a limited sense.

4. Erickson typically conducts therapy with the goal of keeping a couple together except for two types of case: one, if the couple feels the marriage was a mistake, and second, in the event that the marriage does what?

5. Which heading in Chapter 1 shows how Erickson gets the husband to enter therapy just to straighten out the therapist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of therapy in Haley's opinion as it relates to the phases?

2. What progress does Harold make educationally in his work with Erickson?

3. What is remarked by Haley regarding a "love triangle" in Chapter 2?

4. How long does the therapy process last working with Erickson?

5. What friendship does Erickson instigate in Chapter 4?

6. Discuss Erickson's methods of frustration, space, and emphasizing the positive.

7. How does Haley describe Erickson's approach to adolescents in Chapter 3?

8. How and with whom does Harold end up beginning a relationship with in Chapter 4?

9. What does Haley say regarding the cycle of "Marriage and Its Consequences"?

10. In what way does Erickson's therapy method sometimes step outside of the office?

(see the answer keys)

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