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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. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Loving.
(c) Neglectful.
(d) Insecure.

2. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.
(a) Jung.
(b) Erickson.
(c) Freud.
(d) Mesmer.

3. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?
(a) His fear of abandonment.
(b) His sexuality.
(c) An educational concern.
(d) His fears of neglect.

4. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

5. The suggestion of Erickson's in Chapter 6 is that he takes what action to protect the over-all wellbeing of the mind of the patient?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Reverse psychology.
(c) Abrasive behavior.
(d) Hypnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. The parents in one example in Chapter 8 were so competitive, that one of the parents had spent a week in the same town where the daughter lived for the sole purpose of helping the daughter do what?

2. The 19th-century method was to treat a patient in what way?

3. A great part of the therapist's role is to supply _______ over one or more people in a temporary manner to facilitate a cure or other effective treatment of a problem.

4. Erickson keyed into the young woman from the car accident's problems when after much probing, he learned that an elder sister had left home, married against the parents' wishes and was now ______.

5. What is the name of the man whom Erickson treats in Chapter 8 who had lost 80 lbs. in 6 months?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the case in Chapter 6 in which the mother is ultimately left out following post-partum depression.

2. What does Erickson focus on with new mothers facing post-partum depression?

3. How does Erickson use not siding with one family member as a technique?

4. What does Haley say of children leaving the nest in Chapter 8?

5. Describe Haley's point of view in writing this book.

6. In the ending of the book, why does the Prussian man's wife contact Erickson?

7. What is done with the teenage daughter who knows a family secret in Chapter 8?

8. What does Erickson state regarding seeing only one spouse in a marriage?

9. How do Erickson's methods differ than those of the 19th century?

10. What does Haley write regarding post-partum depression in Chapter 6?

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