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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. Which title from Chapter 1 is also used for negative reinforcement and as a means to redirect patients?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Providing a Worse Alternative".

2. The cases in Chapter 5 typically include whom in the couple?
(a) Both parties.
(b) The wife.
(c) The husband.
(d) The children.

3. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.
(a) Adolescent.
(b) Adult.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Child.

4. When Harold has succeeded in school, Erickson persuades him to drop the idea that he is somehow _____ minded.
(a) Intelligently.
(b) Feeble.
(c) Strong.
(d) Powerfully.

5. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.
(a) "Communicate between the parents".
(b) "Facilitate the family unit".
(c) "Communicate with siblings".
(d) "Facilitate domination".

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley explains that there are times when _____ rather than the family of origin are the real source of the problem.

2. 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?

3. Under which heading does Haley address the final stages of life?

4. In Chapter 5, Erickson and Haley both admit that not all young adults want to do what?

5. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Erickson's approach to "family orientation"?

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

3. What friendship does Erickson instigate in Chapter 4?

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

5. What are the first two descriptions of Erickson's techniques in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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