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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. Where additional education is needed, Erickson recommends it; for instance, _________ can educate girls whose mothers or other older women did not properly train in make up or fashion.
(a) Therapists.
(b) Professional beauty assistants.
(c) Aunts or cousins.
(d) Sisters and cousins.

2. Haley states in Chapter 2, there is a need for the ______ to make a major adjustment towards the relationship of another family member but also to another family.
(a) Friends.
(b) Entire family.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Parents.

3. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of marriage.
(b) The phase of adolescence.
(c) The phase of old age.
(d) The phase of bearing children.

4. Which heading in Chapter 1 shows how Erickson gets the husband to enter therapy just to straighten out the therapist?
(a) "Encouraging a Response by Frustrating It".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

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) Appendicitis.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Arrhythmia.
(d) Headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.

2. 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?

3. The presence of a child or children creates a variant of the _____, which only grows in complexity with the advent of additional children.

4. In one scenario in Chapter 5, Erickson was ignorant in matters of baby gender prediction, but he did recommend _____ to avert disaster.

5. Which heading in Chapter 1 cultivates a response until a goal is reached?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the case where a woman is hospitalized in Chapter 5, what issues does she face with her in-laws?

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

3. What does Erickson feel regarding dissent with a couple in the sessions?

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

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

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

7. How does Erickson approach conducting sessions with couples?

8. What friendship does Erickson instigate in Chapter 4?

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

10. What does Haley write about the institution of marriage in the beginning of Chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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