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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. The therapist deals with each part of the couple _______, as a general rule.
(a) As a family unit.
(b) Separately.
(c) Together.
(d) Separately and together.

2. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.
(a) Mother-in-law.
(b) Father.
(c) Sister.
(d) Mother's mother.

3. 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?
(a) An excuse for them to be blamed.
(b) An excuse to unfairly exclude them.
(c) An excuse to coddle them.
(d) An excuse for divorce.

4. Addressing their fears and insecurities while helping them to make some needed _______ are all part of the therapy for those who want this.
(a) Admissions.
(b) Evolutions.
(c) Regressions.
(d) Transformations.

5. After Erickson's client secured the job in Chapter 3, the therapist asked for details about how corrections were made when the client revealed that there had been _____.
(a) Mistakes.
(b) A promotion.
(c) A resignation.
(d) A foreclosure.

Short Answer Questions

1. The one condition on which Erickson allows couples to fight was that they genuinely seek to what?

2. In Chapter 5, Haley writes about a case in which a wealthy woman had to be tranced into more full awareness of her feelings of acceptance during her childhood and how this set a healthy foundation for her to feel confident in her ability to do what?

3. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?

4. After Harold has acquired better habits of dress, he begins to spontaneously seek ______ and to get it.

5. It is stated in In Chapter 2 that some, but not all, will naturally ________; others will not. This evidently affects the culture.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one example in which Erickson recommends divorce in Chapter 5?

2. How does Erickson deal with an adolescent's fears and insecurities in the courtship period?

3. Describe Erickson's use of metaphor and relapse.

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

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

6. When was hypnosis introduced to the psychiatric community and why?

7. What are Erickson's primary goals in couple's therapy?

8. What is Haley's assertion of changes occurring in "Childbirth and Dealing with the Young"?

9. What does Jay Haley remark about Erickson's contribution to the progression of psychotherapy in the beginning of the book?

10. How does Erickson use an indirect method of treatment in the example of the young man who feared women from Chapter 3?

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