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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 need to help the growing youths integrate into the community life without insufficient or excessive ________ is important throughout and continues when people have become parents.
(a) Dependence.
(b) Familial involvement.
(c) Over-protection.
(d) Babying.

2. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?
(a) How to administer medications.
(b) How to approach brain chemistry changes.
(c) How to deal with schizophrenia.
(d) How to facilitate desirable change in patients.

3. Voluntary and involuntary behavior is discussed to show how therapeutic techniques transform an individual into being able to perform certain ______.
(a) New behaviors.
(b) Trance stages.
(c) Cognitive recognitions.
(d) Restrictive behaviors.

4. Harold's experience with his first relationship was so good that he voluntarily reconsidered his own views and chose to do what?
(a) Have a sex change.
(b) Have children.
(c) Pursue women.
(d) Pursue men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?

3. In Chapter 4, it becomes apparent over time that Harold is a very _______ worker.

4. 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?

5. Erickson's method is in contrast to other forms of talk therapy where there is a greater emphasis on __________, and the relationship tends to involve weekly meetings for years on end.

Short Essay Questions

1. Give an example of a case where trance was used by Erickson in Chapter 5.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Erickson use positive reinforcement in the asthmatic patient example from Chapter 3?

10. What friendship does Erickson instigate in Chapter 4?

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