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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Weaning Parents from Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A fear of women that had been troubling Erickson's client in Chapter 3 was overcome but Erickson never even discussed that fear with this client, as the problem was solved through his what?
(a) Direct approach.
(b) Quitting smoking.
(c) Indirect approach.
(d) Hypnosis.

2. In some cases in Chapter 8, one or more parents would interfere or remove the patient from therapy once what?
(a) The child was angry.
(b) The child was upset.
(c) No improvements were detected.
(d) Improvements were effected.

3. It is stated in In Chapter 2 that some, but not all, will naturally ________; others will not. This evidently affects the culture.
(a) Leave the nest.
(b) Be homosexual.
(c) Mate for life.
(d) Divorce.

4. 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 she's disowned them.
(b) After college.
(c) After marriage.
(d) After they've died.

5. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.
(a) "Facilitate the family unit".
(b) "Facilitate domination".
(c) "Communicate with siblings".
(d) "Communicate between the parents".

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley writes of a case in Chapter 5 in which a new mother was so distraught that she was hospitalized; the trouble was that in some cases, the receipt of treatment is used by others in the greater familial context as what?

2. Erickson feels that when the circumstances of a patient need to be changed, it is wrong to prevent healthy growth by substituting ______ for good therapy.

3. Once Erickson helped the family of the boy with the sore, it cured the boy of his festering sore and the _______ behavior that had accompanied it.

4. Which title from Chapter 1 shows how indirect communication can be better therapy in some cases?

5. Milton Erickson came from the American Midwest and received the majority of his education and preliminary work experience in Wisconsin and _____.

(see the answer key)

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