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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. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Erickson cites examples of a couple that ceased to have an alcohol problem when they did what on weekends?
5. 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.
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Erickson say regarding becoming grandparents in the life cycle?
2. How does Erickson use not siding with one family member as a technique?
3. Describe the case in Chapter 6 in which the mother is ultimately left out following post-partum depression.
4. What does Haley say of children leaving the nest in Chapter 8?
5. With the daughter who is in the accident and whose parents are obsessive, what does Erickson discover?
6. Describe Haley's point of view in writing this book.
7. How does Haley describe Erickson asserting his masculinity as a doctor in Chapter 7?
8. What is done with the teenage daughter who knows a family secret in Chapter 8?
9. What does Erickson focus on with new mothers facing post-partum depression?
10. According to Erickson, what affects a person's happiness in approaching old age?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the "trance state" which Erickson uses. How does this differ from what people traditionally think of as hypnosis?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Erickson's technique of "encouraging a response by frustrating it" and give examples where this technique is used in case studies from the text.
Essay Topic 3
How does childbirth throw the entire family structure into a form of crisis? What ways does Erickson use to assist families in this transition?
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