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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. After Harold has acquired better habits of dress, he begins to spontaneously seek ______ and to get it.
(a) Education.
(b) Girlfriends.
(c) Better work.
(d) Boyfriends.

2. Erickson typically conducts therapy with the goal of keeping a couple together except for two types of case: one, if the couple feels the marriage was a mistake, and second, in the event that the marriage does what?
(a) Makes either of the members unhappy.
(b) Leads to intense sexual insecurities.
(c) Leads to problems with children.
(d) Puts either or both members of it into danger.

3. What is the title of Chapter 1 in the book?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Seeding Ideas".
(c) "Strategic Therapy".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

4. In the case where the husband has threatened to kill his wife unless she gives birth to a child of the gender he wants, Erickson recommends the couple do what?
(a) Get an ultrasound.
(b) See a geneticist.
(c) Don't have children.
(d) Divorce.

5. 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) Divorce.
(c) Be homosexual.
(d) Mate for life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patient Mesmer took in Chapter 8?

2. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?

3. 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?

4. What occurrence either forces or allows other relatives, be it the father or extended family, a great chance to take care of the baby?

5. A great part of the therapist's role is to supply _______ over one or more people in a temporary manner to facilitate a cure or other effective treatment of a problem.

(see the answer key)

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