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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. What did Erickson encourage the woman to do?

2. Some people are able to use therapy to overcome what kind of illness?

3. The doctor believed that a patient will only succeed if s/he has which of the following:

4. There are some people who may not be able to easily respond to treatment if they tend to:

5. What is often used as a stepping stone to bigger and better things in therapy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Frankl used the method of reframing in his daily life.

2. Describe the story about Erickson and the athlete and how Erickson's work helped to vastly improve the young man's performance.

3. Explain the lesson learned by Erickson in regards to people wanting to change their habits and behaviors.

4. Who is Victor Frankl? What makes his story an unusual one?

5. Why is it stated that children are like empty slates? What does that mean?

6. Explain how one of Erickson's techniques helped a man to overcome a fear of walking across ice.

7. Describe the story of the woman who continually sabotaged herself and her efforts to lose weight.

8. According to Erickson, there is a particular way to overcome limitations. What is the method?

9. What was the example used regarding the fact that some people disagree just to disagree?

10. Explain the process of "reframing;' and how it changes a person's outlook.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Self-sabotage is very common in patients, particularly those who are attempting to make major life changes and/or abandoning a certain behavior or action. Give examples of self-sabotage. Did anyone in the text practice self-sabotage? How did Erickson deal with it? Was the problem resolved? Why did it happen in the first place? Write a 500 word essay on how self-sabotage has affected you.

Essay Topic 2

Write a detailed biography of Milton H. Erickson, MD. Include his personal and professional lives, education, techniques, contributions to the field of hypnotherapy, etc.

Essay Topic 3

"It's just like riding a bike" is an old adage used by the author to refer to "forgotten" skills. What are forgotten skills? How is it possible to forget a skill? What could cause one to remember it? Would it be a matter of necessity, memory, or physical memory? What is physical or cell memory? How is it triggered? What does it do? How can it be helpful? What forgotten skills do you possess? Could you teach those skills to someone who does not have them? How?

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