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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. In Erickson's case in Chapter 6 which involved the boy's bed-wetting problem, Erickson suggested that if he didn't wet the bed for a month his parents were obligated to get him what?

2. Erickson would use his position to effect a beneficial ______ that leaves the couple reoriented into their new and improved dynamic and empowers them to go back to leaving out the therapist.

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

4. Where was the man from whom Erickson helped to walk in Chapter 9?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Erickson say regarding becoming grandparents in the life cycle?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Erickson feel regarding psychiatric medication?

9. What is Erickson's approach to the family "as a group"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how "amnesia and the control of information" works. How is this technique controversial? In what examples does Erickson use it?

Essay Topic 3

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

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