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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. Under which heading does Haley address the final stages of life?
(a) "Growing Old".
(b) "Retirement and Old Age".
(c) "When I'm 64".
(d) "Weaning Parents from Children".

2. A fear of women that had been troubling Erickson's client in Chapter 3 was overcome but Erickson never even discussed that fear with this client, as the problem was solved through his what?
(a) Quitting smoking.
(b) Indirect approach.
(c) Direct approach.
(d) Hypnosis.

3. Erickson does not tell Harold there is anything wrong with _________; he tells Harold that he wants to put Harold into a position to be open to changing or keeping his ideas about himself.
(a) His emotions.
(b) His appearance.
(c) His sexual orientation
(d) His intellect.

4. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.
(a) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(b) "Strategic Therapy".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Family orientation".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley explains that in the most severe cases, Erickson would consider long-term therapy; otherwise, his relationship with clients lasted how long?

2. It states in Chapter 2 that therapists often discover that habituated communication problems and other issues, including the involvement of _____, are all highly relevant to the families at this juncture.

3. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that therapy must take into account the reality of how factors outside the marriage and beyond the individual partners have an affect upon what happens and may contain suggestions and warnings about the way to navigate a set of solutions?

4. Harold's experience with his first relationship was so good that he voluntarily reconsidered his own views and chose to do 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 Erickson's approach to "family orientation"?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the first life phase discussed in Chapter 2.

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

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

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

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

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