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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. One extreme example of dependency in Chapter 8 is when a young woman goes off to college and her parents build an addition to the house so she can live there while she is an adult, including when?
(a) After they've died.
(b) After marriage.
(c) After college.
(d) After she's disowned them.

2. Chapter 7 deals with issues of what?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Marriage and family dilemmas
(c) Old age and dying.
(d) Childbirth.

3. The therapist prescribes a specific course of action with the boy with behavioral problems in Chapter 6. With his direction and his assurance that her son is not being put in danger from doing so, the mother spends an entire day doing what?
(a) Yelling at her son.
(b) Leaving her son in a locked closet.
(c) Sitting on her son.
(d) Spanking her son.

4. 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?
(a) Do laundry.
(b) Do her homework.
(c) Call home.
(d) Get to therapy.

5. What is the name of the man whom Erickson treats in Chapter 8 who had lost 80 lbs. in 6 months?
(a) Steven.
(b) Herbert.
(c) Sean.
(d) Harold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.

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

3. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?

4. In one example in Chapter 8, Erickson had to work with the parents on their dynamic, including extreme ______ tensions, while at the same time serving as the daughter's therapist.

5. The child who had the festering sore improved in _____ and the family's situation had found its new equilibrium.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With the daughter who is in the accident and whose parents are obsessive, what does Erickson discover?

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

4. One daughter seeks help from Erickson regarding overbearing parents in Chapter 8. Describe this example.

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

6. How does Erickson enable couples in Chapter 6?

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

8. Describe the case of the 8-year-old terror, which is provided in Chapter 6.

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

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

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