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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harold became negative about the _______ with whom he had had been sexually involved in a limited sense.

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

3. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.

4. Harold succeeds in cultivating a friendship with an unintelligent ______ man who has been highly effective at making the best of who he is.

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Erickson approach the sexual orientation of the client in Chapter 4?

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

7. How does Erickson approach conducting sessions with couples?

8. What is remarked by Haley regarding a "love triangle" in Chapter 2?

9. Describe the first case scenario set up in Chapter 4.

10. Discuss Erickson's methods of frustration, space, and emphasizing the positive.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Erickson's technique of "emphasizing the positive" and give examples where this technique is used in case studies from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Erickson's technique of "providing a worse alternative" and give examples where this technique is used in case studies from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Erickson's technique of "causing change by communicating in metaphor" and give examples where this technique is used in case studies from the text.

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