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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 accepted a client, a young woman who was living with her parents at an age when many other people's children had left home. She had been in a car accident and after recovering had undergone months of what?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Hypnotists.
(c) Physical therapy.
(d) Extensive therapy.

2. Erickson at times uses his own what to facilitate the husband's willingness to meet the therapist and to experience some therapy?
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Response.
(c) Coerciveness.
(d) Hypnosis.

3. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Surroundings.
(c) Habituated behavior.
(d) Circumstances.

4. One example in Chapter 8 is a case where a teenager is _______ because she relates the fact that her mother has been having an affair with a local wealthy man.
(a) Sent to live with her grandparents.
(b) Heartbroken.
(c) Sent to boarding school.
(d) Institutionalized.

5. Erickson is _____ if a husband goes so far as to show up to set the therapist straight on some ways that the therapist has been wrong.
(a) Discontent.
(b) Upset.
(c) Content.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patient Mesmer took in Chapter 8?

2. In one case in Chapter 7, Erickson deals with a woman who feels what sensation in the bedroom?

3. The first example Haley gives in Chapter 9 involves a man with an intense fear of what?

4. Haley touches on what has come to be referred to as ______ or maternal psychosis. In the most extreme cases, the mother might be hospitalized.

5. In one case of a wife who dominated her husband in Chapter 7, if a caller on the phone wouldn't announce who they were she would do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is one of the more controversial aspects of Erickson's hypnosis?

3. How do Erickson's techniques vary with different clients?

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

5. Describe the outcome of the example from Chapter 6 in which a child has a sore which festered for 2 years.

6. According to Erickson, what affects a person's happiness in approaching old age?

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

8. How does Erickson enable couples in Chapter 6?

9. How does Erickson feel regarding psychiatric medication?

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

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