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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. When Erickson conducts long-term therapy, he does not do it as extensive and lengthy contact with meetings once each week for years. Instead, he does what?
(a) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(b) Has sessions outside his office.
(c) Has telephone sessions.
(d) Varies the duration of appointments.

2. In most of the examples referred to in Chapter 3, success in dating leads not only into marriage, but also into ____.
(a) Career.
(b) Parenting.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Life.

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

4. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Amnesia and Control of Information".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.

2. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.

3. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.

4. Under which heading of Chapter 2 does Haley state that children develop their own roles within families and parents face serious changes when they leave?

5. Under which heading does Haley write that the marriage ceremony is actually very important to more than just those who are marrying?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Haley's description of "Middle Marriage Difficulties"?

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

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

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

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

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 approach conducting sessions with couples?

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